Cargo plane crashes in Karachi

Staff Report

KARACHI: A cargo plane crashed on late Saturday night after its take off in Karachi.

Police and rangers reached in the area soon after the crash.

Fire brigade, ambulances and other rescue teams rushed to the area.

Fire broke out in the area where the plane crashed.

Accoridng to initial reports two residential buildings were damaged. Trend Pk

Karachi: small private plane crashes in Gulistan-e Johar

Karachi, News Trends :- A small private plane of a private organization has crashed in the area of Gulistan-e Johar in Karachi, trendpk.Com reported on Friday.

It has been reported that atleast 20 people were on board. The plane was on its way to the Bhit Shah oil fields from Karachi when it crashed due to some problems in its engine. The rescue teams and the law enforcing agencies reached the place of crash while the police have said that there are chances of causalities in the crash.According to the Civil Aviation Sources, more or less 10 people have died in the crash whose dead bodies have been pulled out of the debris whereas many others are injured who are being shifted to nearby hospitals.

21 dead as small plane crashes in Karachi

Staff Report

KARACHI: At least 21 were killed after a small charter plane crashed in Gulistan-e-Johar immediately after taking off from Karachi Airport Friday morning.

The plane took off at 7:15am.

DIG Karachi East confirmed the death toll.

Speaking to journalists at the site of the crash, Lt. Col. Noor Alam said that there is no survivor.

He said that all people aboard the plane died and that they could not be identified.

Alam said that bodies are being pulled out of the wreckage. Trend Pk

14 die in bus accident in Northern Argentina

At least 14 people, including several children, were killed and five others suffered serious injuries when a minibus collided with a truck on a highway in northern Argentina.
The accident took place when the bus hit the truck on the outskirts of Villa Ocampo, a city located about 870 kilometers (541 miles) from Buenos Aires.
The bus driver and 13 passengers, including a couple, their daughter and seven other children and teenagers were killed in the crash. The truck driver was not injured in the crash, but he was hospitalized for treatment of shock, precinct chief Jose Luis Leguiza told Buenos Aires radio stations. The bus was carrying a childrens dance group that had performed at a music festival in Villa Ocampo and was returning home to the nearby town of Villa Guillermina.

14 die in bus accident in Northern Argentina

At least 14 people, including several children, were killed and five others suffered serious injuries when a minibus collided with a truck on a highway in northern Argentina.
The accident took place when the bus hit the truck on the outskirts of Villa Ocampo, a city located about 870 kilometers (541 miles) from Buenos Aires.
The bus driver and 13 passengers, including a couple, their daughter and seven other children and teenagers were killed in the crash. The truck driver was not injured in the crash, but he was hospitalized for treatment of shock, precinct chief Jose Luis Leguiza told Buenos Aires radio stations. The bus was carrying a childrens dance group that had performed at a music festival in Villa Ocampo and was returning home to the nearby town of Villa Guillermina.

Nine NATO troops killed in chopper crash

At least nine NATO service members were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
The security mission said two others NATO service members, an Afghan National Army soldier and a US civilian where injured and transported to an ISAF medical facility for treatment. The alliance said there were no reports of enemy fire in the area and added that the cause of the crash is under investigation. According to figures from iCasualties.org, at least 529 soldiers have died this year in Afghanistan, making 2010 the deadliest year since the start of the US-led invasion in 2001.

2 reported killed in Myanmar border town

BANGKOK: A bomb exploded in a crowded market in a Myanmar border town, killing at least two people and wounding at least eight others, an official said.

The blast occurred Friday evening in the town of Myawaddy, across a river from Thailand, according to a local news agency, run by Myanmar exiles in Thailand. The explosive was believed thrown from a vehicle into the night bazaar.

An official in Yangon, Myanmar, who demanded anonymity since he was not allowed to speak to the press, confirmed that two persons had died and at least eight others were injured.

The area was cordoned off immediately after the blast and victims were taken to hospitals.

It was unclear whether the attack was related to fighting between Myanmar”s military and the ethnic minority Karen, who are seeking an independent state, or criminal activities.

The town is a center for both a vigorous illegal cross-border trade and smuggling of goods, drugs and people, mainly laborers seeking employment in Thailand.

Several bomb blasts have rocked Myanmar this year, including three blasts in Yangon that killed nine people and wounded 170. The incidents come as the ruling junta prepares for a general election that opponents have called unfair and undemocratic.

Amtrak train hits truck in Calif.; 20 injured

SHAFTER: Police say an Amtrak train hit a big-rig truck at a California crossing, sending 20 people to hospitals for treatment for minor injuries.

Shafter police Sgt. Randy Milligan says the southbound Amtrak train hit the truck in Kern County at around 3:55 p.m. Friday.

Police say the truckdriver, 49-year-old Luis Camagro of McFarland, Calif., walked away from the crash unhurt.

Amtrak officials said the train was traveling from Oakland to Bakersfield with 219 passengers on board. Officials say it was going about 79 mph when it hit the truck.

The remaining passengers were transported by bus to the Bakersfield Amtrak station.

Police say the signals and caution arms at the crossing were working properly at the time of the crash.

Australia election set for neck-and-neck finish

SYDNEY: Australia”s Labor government and the opposition are neck-and-neck ahead of an August 21 election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, prompting a call by Prime Minister Julia Gillard for an aggressive election campaign.

“I wake up some days and go, let”s fire up, let”s get more determined and that”s what I”ve done today,” Gillard told Sydney radio after a Newspoll survey put her Labor party and opposition Liberal-National coalition 50:50 to win the election.

Gillard pledged to do away with a “stage-managed” and “risk averse” re-election campaign in order to talk directly to voters about real issues like jobs, schools, hospitals and the economy.

“I”m desperate to make sure that Australians in this election campaign get to hear from me,” she said.

Gillard”s key policies are a 30 percent tax on iron ore and coal mines, the introduction of carbon trading and the building of a $33 billion-plus broadband network.

The opposition led by Tony Abbott has pledged to dump the mining tax and is running on a platform of cutting waste in government spending and tougher immigration.

Gillard, Australia”s first female prime minister after replacing Kevin Rudd in a party coup in June, has been criticized by political commentators for a staid, orchestrated election campaign, devoid of major policy announcements.

Government infighting and cabinet leaks appear to be weighing on Labor”s popularity, after it had been comfortably ahead in polls when the election was called on July 17.

“Julia Gillard is starting to run a scare campaign because she”s starting to run scared,” Dennis Shanahan, political editor of The Australian newspaper, wrote on Monday.

“At this point the ALP (Australian Labor Party) is losing the election campaign, Gillard is losing her gloss and the advantage of removing Kevin Rudd is gone.”

The Sydney Morning Herald frontpage headline on Gillard”s change of election strategy read: “Target Tony.”

“I think the campaign is about who you want to be prime minister,” said Gillard, focusing on Abbott”s changing stance on climate change, immigration and labor laws in the past year.

Abbott dismissed Gillard”s declaration of a more honest campaign, saying the “faceless men” of the Labor party who appointed her prime minister would continue to run her campaign and if Labor was re-elected would run the country.

“Would the real Julia please stand up. What have we been seeing for the last five weeks if it is not the real Julia,” Abbott told reporters.

Support for Gillard”s Labor was 50 percent, down from 52 percent the week before, according to the Newspoll survey published in the Australian newspaper on Monday. Support for the conservative opposition rose to 50 percent from 48 percent,

On Saturday, a Nielsen poll showed support for Labor had dived six percentage points to 48 percent, behind the opposition, led by Abbott with an election-winning 52 percent.

The latest Newspoll showed Gillard has kept her clear lead over Abbott as preferred prime minister, standing at 50 percent to 35 percent. But dissatisfaction with Gillard”s performance rose 3 points to 40 percent, and is now up 11 percentage points since the election was called.

Plane crashes in national park in Alaska

ANCHORAGE: Federal aviation officials say a plane has crashed at Denali National Park in Alaska.

Allen Kenitzer with the Federal Aviation Administration says little is known at this time about the Sunday crash near the entrance of the park, about 180 miles north of Anchorage. He doesn”t know if there are survivors.

He says the plane is believed to be a single-engine aircraft and the crash caused a large fire at the site.

Park spokeswoman Kris Fister did not immediately have information, only that there was a plane crash.

George Clare, of Las Vegas, says he saw the plane flying very low and slow. He says he proceeded to the park”s visitor”s center, thinking it was going to land.

He says the crash caused a column of smoke a few miles west of the visitor”s center.

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