Fazl gets a narrow escape in Swabi bombing

At least seven people were killed and several others were injured in a bomb explosion near the reception rally of Maulana Fazlur Rahman in Anbar area of Swabi on Wednesday.

According to News Trends, the bomb exploded moments after the convoy of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Ameer, Fazlur Rahman, passed through the area.

The law enforcement agencies have cordoned off area after the incident and the rescue workers started the rescue operations. The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar.

7 killed in Swabi bombing, Fazl gets a narrow escape

At least seven people were killed and several others were injured in a bomb explosion near the reception rally of Maulana Fazlur Rahman in Anbar area of Swabi on Wednesday.

According to News Trends, the bomb exploded moments after the convoy of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Ameer, Fazlur Rahman, passed through the area.

The law enforcement agencies have cordoned off area after the incident and the rescue workers started the rescue operations. The injured were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital.

Rescue 15 service decentralised

ISLAMABAD: The Rescue 15 police unit will be decentralised and its work force will be put at the disposal of operations police.

Personnel and vehicles of Rescue 15 will be reallocated under the direct command of respective Superintendents of Police (SP) in the city’s four zones.

They will continue to respond to emergencies and will have more authority to take action. The decision was taken in a meeting between SPs and Senior Superintendent of Police Tahir Alam Khan on Saturday.

“The helpline and other facilities previously associated with Rescue 15 will continue to function the same way,” said Altaf Aziz Khattak, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (Security).

“The falcons, vehicles and personnel will be allocated to police stations according to their needs,” he added.

“The idea was to make up for the lack of force and resources. Now the dedicated vehicles of Rescue 15 police will also be available for regular operations like special checking, enhanced patrolling and checking crimes,” said a police official.

At present, Rescue 15 is a separate unit of police responding only to emergency calls. It has a separate officer in-charge holding the rank of SP.

However, they could not register cases or proceed against any suspect found responsible for creating an emergency. They had to rely on duty officers from the respective police stations for further action after providing emergency assistance.

“The process was time consuming and more force and vehicles of police were utilised in the previous procedure,” said Khattak.

“Now the same officer will have authority to take action and act as the officer on duty,” he added.

Police said the decentralization of Rescue 15 police will not only reduce the existing disconnect between the officers of the four zones of Islamabad Capital Territory but will also reduce the response time.

The emergency calls for help will be received in the same way as before but they will be directed to the police station of the area concerned, where the respective supervisor will inform and move the Rescue 15 falcons to reach at the trouble spot.

All fourteen police stations of the city would forward their requirements and needs to the Deputy Superintendent of Police Security’s office after which the Rescue 15 force will be deputed at the police stations as needed.

98 dead, 226 missing in New Zealand quake: police

CHRISTCHURCH: Rescue workers have recovered 98 bodies after the New Zealand earthquake and there are “grave concerns” for another 226 people who are missing, police said Thursday.

“I can confirm that we have received a total of 98 bodies,” district commander Dave Cliff told reporters. “We have 226 people who are reported missing. We”re gravely concerned about those individuals.”(AFP)

Blast at Lahore Bhati Gate

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LAHORE, trendpk: Various people are injured in a powerful explosion at Bhati Gate near Kerbala Game Shah.

The injured are being shifted to hospital.

According to Rescue sources, at least 15 people were injured at Lohari Chowk.

Policeman among 6 killed in Bannu suicide attack

At least 6 people including a cop and a six-month old minor were killed while 12 others injured in a powerful explosion that said to have hit a police van near Melad Park in Bannu district.

The suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van, leaving 6 people dead on the spot and several others injured.The deceased cop was identified as Safeerullah.

DIG Iftikhar Khan said at least 12 people were injured in the attack.Police and rescue teams rushed the blast site and kicked off the search operation in abutting areas.

Law enforcement agencies cordoned off the blast scene while the rescue activities have been kicked off.

Death toll may further rise, police said.

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

Baghdad: All attackers killed in church operation

In Baghdad, Iraq on Monday all the gunmen who stormed a church, seizing dozens of Iraqi and threatening to kill them were killed when the Iraqi police raided the church and ended the stand-off.
Minister of Defence Abdul Qader al-Obeidi who supervised the operation with Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim al-Moussawi and a number of Iraqi military commanders said that most of the hostages were rescued and all the attackers were killed, but he stopped short of giving numbers. The US military said between seven and 10 hostages and seven members of the Iraqi security forces, as well as seven attackers, were killed in the rescue operation. Most of the people who were attending the mass were rescued and the operation was carried out with high efficiency. Witnesses reported seeing many bodies inside the church after the gunmen wearing suicide vests threw grenades or blew themselves up as Iraqi forces stormed the building. The insurgents laid siege to one of Baghdad’s biggest churches as more than 100 parishioners attended Sunday mass in a central district near the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to embassies and the Iraqi government. US military officials watched the rescue operation from cameras in hovering helicopters. Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq since the height of sectarian bloodshed in 2006-07 but attacks by Sunni insurgents linked to al Qaeda and Shi’ite militia continue daily. Some police sources said they believed the initial target was the nearby Iraqi stock exchange, a bourse that lists a couple dozen local companies.

Lahore: Plastic bag factory burns in Shahdara

Staff Report

LAHORE: A plastic bag manufacturing factory has been burn in Shahdara, Lahore on Wednesday.

According to Rescue 1122 officials, a short circuit of power cables caused the fire in the small factory, made in a house in Shahdara.

After the short circuit, the plastic bags manufacturing raw material caught fire. The Rescue 1122 team arrived at the scene immediately and controlled the fire within half an hour.

Except for material loss, no one has been reported hurt in the incident. SAMAA

Chile: All miners pulled safely to surface after 69 days ordeal

The last of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, 54-year-old Luis Urzua, the shift foreman, was rescued on Wednesday after having stayed 700 metres underground for more than two months. The atmosphere at the scene exploded when Urzua walked out of the capsule. Waves of horns, sirens and cheers sound for long.
Urzua was among the 33 miners who have been trapped in the San Jose copper mine that collapsed on August 5. All of them were elevated one-by-one in a capsule through a narrowly bored hole. President Sebastian Pinera bear-hugged the foreman in a high spirit, and invited him to stand beside him to join the hundreds of others at the scene to sing the national anthem. Praising the foreman a very good leader of the group, Pinera said We’re going to thank everybody from the bottom of our heart.Urzua responded with thanks to everybody who have participated in the rescue. I am very proud of what you have done, he said to the president.As the capsule started lifting up, great joy was seen from everybody’s face and tens of hundreds of rescuers on the surface could not help singing spontaneously: Let’s go, miners Let’s go, miners Tonight we are going to rescue you. After the first miner was pulled out to the ground, Pinera delivered a triumphant speech, saying This country is capable of great things …We Chileans have shown the best of us. Describing the experience as a wonderful night that Chileans and the whole world will never forget, Pinera noted that it was unprecedented in the history of the world for its magnitude and complexity. The president said his government will strive to improve mine workers’ safety. The miners, who have been trapped since August 5, were confirmed alive Aug 22 and it had been estimated that the rescue would take four months. On Oct 9, a 624-meter deep rescue tunnel was completed. Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne then declared that the extraction of the miners could begin starting Wednesday.

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