Flash floods kill at least 50 in held Kashmir

SRINAGAR: A top police official says at least 50 people have been killed after a sudden downpour and flashfloods hit a major town in Indian held Kashmir’s remote and mountainous Ladakh region.

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Car bomb targets hotel in Kandahar; 6 hurt

KABUL: Witnesses say a car bomb has targeted a hotel in the heart of the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, injuring at least six people.

Police official Nidah Mohammed says at least two of those injured is in serious condition.

Witnesses say windows were shattered in the four-story Noor Jehan Hotel when the car bomb went off in the parking lot.

Seven dead Indonesia landslide

JAKARTA: A Red Cross official says a rain-triggered landslide has killed at least seven villagers and left three missing on Indonesia’s main Java island.

Rudi Syahriar says at least 10 people were buried under tons of mud from Thursday’s landslide in a village in West Java province.

He said Friday rescuers have dug up seven bodies.

Last month, a mudslide that hit a tea plantation in a neighboring district killed 45 people.

Landslides are becoming increasingly common in Indonesia during the late monsoon season as large-scale forest clearing destabilizes hillsides.

St Louis Shooting 3 dead, 4 wounded

St Louis Shooting 3 dead, 4 wounded ( more updates about st louis news, ksdk breaking news, belski s blog, wmctv5, st louis news channel 5 ) .

Thursday morning, Timothy Hendron took the fight against his employer from a federal courtroom to the company’s headquarters, according to law enforcement sources in St. Louis. And instead of using an ongoing class action lawsuit to achieve his goals, Hendron is suspected of using an AK-47 assault rifle.

Authorities now say three people are dead and four are wounded after a man armed with an assault rifle and a handgun opened fire at a St. Louis manufacturing plant.

Police Capt. Sam Dotson confirmed the number but did not have names or details about the victims.

Many of the 40 or 50 employees inside the plant at the time of the shooting hid on the rooftop, in boiler rooms and in closets.

Fire Department spokesman Bob Keuss says at least two of the victims were in critical condition.

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St Louis Shooting 3 dead, 4 wounded was first posted on January 7, 2010 at 10:40 pm.

Earthquake Hits Malawi, killing 3, Injuring 300

BLANTYRE, Malawi: A strong earthquake has hit Malawi, and a government official says at least 3 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured.

The 6.0-magnitude quake struck the southeast African country at 1:19 a.m. Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Gasten Macheka, the commissioner of Karonga district, says it destroyed several buildings there, including schools. He says a dormitory at one government school fell on sleeping students, injuring scores of them.

Macheka says at least 270,000 people have been urged to leave their homes for their safety.

The Karonga district in northern Malawi has been hit by a series of earthquakes and aftershocks since the beginning of December.

Parts of Malawi that lie in the Great Rift Valley are prone to quakes.

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Earthquake Hits Malawi, killing 3, Injuring 300 was first posted on December 20, 2009 at 7:44 pm.