One dead as hundreds stage protest in Karachi

KARACHI: One person died and another suffered injuries from fires shot from an unknown source during a protest in Karachi on Wednesday.

The incident took place on Manghopir Road where hundreds of people held a demonstration against the arrest of their relatives.

In a joint operation on Tuesday, police and rangers apprehended over 400 suspected men and women from Manghopir.

Protesters blocked Manghopir Road and called for the immediate release of detainees.

Heavy contingents of police and rangers were called to bring the situation under control. Trend Pk

Mine explosion in China leaves 20 dead

At least 20 miners have died in a coal mine explosion in the Chinese province of Henan.
According to the Chinese media the incident took place at 6 in the morning and there were almost 30 miners present inside the mine. The media reported that at least 10 miners are still trapped inside. Operation is being carried out to pull the miners out of the mine.
Augmented demand due to fast growing economy and also because of less security, Chinese coal mines are considered to be the most dangerous in the world. Almost 2900 miners lost their lives in coal mine explosions in 2009 alone.

NATO supply attacked, 40 trucks, tankers burnt in Sindh

KARACHI: Gunmen in southern Pakistan on Friday torched more than two dozen trucks and tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, police said.

Attacks on trucks carrying goods for US and NATO-led forces are routine. But Friday’s incident came a day after Pakistan blocked the convoys following the deaths of three Pakistani soldiers blamed on cross-border NATO fire.

“Around 20 attackers armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles attacked these trucks. They set ablaze 27 trucks parked there,” district police chief Abdul Hameed Khoso told AFP of the pre-dawn attack.

The incident took place in Shikarpur district of the southern province of Sindh and was confirmed by another top administrative official.

Officials said the main land route for NATO supplies remained blocked and no trucks were being allowed to enter Afghanistan for the second

Roof collapse kills two children in Peshawar

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PESHAWAR: Two children were killed and as many injured after the roof of a house they were sitting in collapsed in Peshawar on Saturday.

The incident took place in crowded Gunj area, where the roof of a musty house suddenly caved in, leaving four people, including children and a woman, stranded under the rubble.

Rescue 1122 teams reached the scene and pulled the critically wounded people out of rubble.

The injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hosital, where two children succumbed to their wounds.

Meanwhile, Rescue 1122 staff continues to remove the debris of the fallen house. SAMAA

Man kills brother’s wife, her two children in Karak

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KARAK: A man shot and killed his brother’s wife and two young children in Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, police said.

The incident took place in the limit of Khurram Police Station in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

According to police, the accused barged into his brother’s house and opened indiscriminate fire, killing his sister-in-law and her two sons on the spot. The assailant fled the scene after the attack.

Police said that some personnel enmity could be the main reason behind the murders. However, it registered a case against the suspect and started investigation. SAMAA

Man kills brother’s wife, her two children in Karak

Staff Report

KARAK: A man shot and killed his brother’s wife and two young children in Karak District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, police said.

The incident took place in the limit of Khurram Police Station in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

According to police, the accused barged into his brother’s house and opened indiscriminate fire, killing his sister-in-law and her two sons on the spot. The assailant fled the scene after the attack.

Police said that some personnel enmity could be the main reason behind the murders. However, it registered a case against the suspect and started investigation. SAMAA

Bus crushes two women to death in Karachi

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KARACHI: A fast-moving mini bus crushed two women to death in Karachi on Tuesday.

The incident took place at Teen Hatti Bridge when a W-11 bus knocked down two elderly women as they were crossing the road, killing both on the spot.

After the incident, an angry mob set the bus on fire. However, the driver of the bus managed to flee. SAMAA

Two gunned down in Balochistan

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BALOCHISTAN: Two people were shot dead, two others were injured in Mand area of Balochistan, SAMAA learnt Tuesday.

According to sources, some unknown men opened fire at the guest house of Hayatan Wand Haji Umar, killing two men, Shahid and Bakht Ali, two others were injured.

The incident took place in border area of District Ketch, Mand in Balochistan.

Levies force has cordoned off the area and started search operation. SAMAA

Rain batters China; 250,000 evacuated in flood

BEIJING: Flooding has forced the evacuation of more than a quarter-million people in northern China along its border with North Korea, state media said Monday.

Heavy rains over the last several days caused the Yalu river, which marks the border, to breach its banks, although the water level had started to fall late Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency state media said Monday.

It said four people died, including a couple in their 70s and a mother and son, after their homes in Dandong were swept away by flash floods. Xinhua said 253,500 residents have been evacuated after the Yalu rose to its highest level in a decade.

An official with the Water Resources Department in Liaoning province, where Dandong is located, confirmed that four people had died though he was unable to provide details. He refused to give his name because he was not authorized to speak

Protesters demonstrate for, against ‘Ground Zero’ mosque

NEW YORK: Several hundred protesters staged rival demonstrations Sunday for and against plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks, some brandishing signs against Islam and others denouncing religious bigotry.

Though small in scale, the street protests reflect an intensifying national debate that has exposed a raw nerve over US attitudes toward Islam nearly nine years after Al-Qaeda militants flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg supports the mosque, the city council has approved the project for a community center, and President Barack Obama has invoked the constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.

But 61 percent of Americans disapprove of it, and opposition to the mosque has been taken up with fervor by conservative politicians like former Republican lawmaker

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