Five killed, 45 hurt in IHK bus accident

SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, five passengers including a couple and a two-year-old boy were killed while 45 others were injured in a bus accident in Udhampur district, reports KMS.

The accident occurred when an overloaded bus in which they were travelling by skidded off Patyari Bridge and rolled down into rivulet near Kaghot.

The ill-fated bus in which 50 passengers were on board was on way to Patyari (Ramnagar) from Udhampur, when the accident happened at Kagote.

The mishap took place at least one kilometre short of its destination and 30-kilometres away from Udhampur. The critically injured passengers were shifted to District Hospital, Udhampur for medical treatment.

And another report from IHK says; the Hurriyet leaders and other groups have strongly condemned the assault on a media reporter by Indian policemen in Srinagar.

Police had severely beaten, a reporter, Gowhar Butt on Monday at Lal Chowk while he was performing his professional duty.

Reporters Without Borders, while condemning the police action in strongest terms, said, “The policemen responsible for the gratuitous violence against a journalist must be punished.”

4 Turkish Nationals Arrested From Zhob

4 Turkish Nationals Arrested From Zhob: Security forces arrested four Turkish nationals, including a woman, in Balochistan’s Zhob district. Official sources said the Turkish nationals were arrested from the Mari Khawa check post. They were travelling from Dera Ismail Khan to Zhob and did not have any valid travel documents

4 Turkish Nationals Arrested From Zhob: Security forces arrested four Turkish nationals, including a woman, in Balochistan’s Zhob district.

Official sources said the Turkish nationals were arrested from the Mari Khawa check post. They were travelling from Dera Ismail Khan to Zhob and did not have any valid travel documents.

Sources added that security agencies were interrogating the four Turkish nationals.

However, they said it was premature to speculate over their affiliation with any militant group.

Zhob is considered to be a transit point for militants. Pakistani Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud was killed in an operation in the area in July 2007.  — DawnNews