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MUMBAI, India (AFP) — At least 15 people have died after a blaze swept through a sanitizer factory in the western Indian city of Pune on Monday, police said. “We have recovered 15 bodies so far,” an officer in Pune’s rural police control room, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. “The fire broke out around 4:15 pm at a sanitizer factory, we still don’t know what sparked the fire.” The officer could not […]
DAHARKI, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed just minutes earlier, officials said. Several people were still trapped in the mangled wreckage near Daharki, in a remote part of rural Sindh province, which took rescue workers with specialist equipment hours to reach. The double accident happened around 3.30am (2230 GMT) when most of the 1,200 passengers […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Army relief workers in aluminium dinghies handed out rice and other food to residents in submerged parts of the Sri Lankan capital as the death toll from monsoon floods across the country rose to 17 Monday. The monsoon hits the South Asian country twice a year, bringing vital rain for irrigation and hydro-power generation, but it can be deadly and destructive. At least 17 people have died since Friday, after […]
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — The trial of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will begin next week, her lawyer told AFP Monday, with the Nobel laureate facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting coronavirus restrictions during last year’s election campaign. Myanmar has been in uproar since Suu Kyi was ousted in a February 1 coup, with near-daily protests and a nationwide civil disobedience movement. Almost 850 people have been […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s capital New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai began a gradual easing of restrictions on Monday as coronavirus infections in the country fell to a two-month low. Hospitals in the megacities — which have a combined population of some 40 million — were overwhelmed by a deadly Covid-19 wave in April and May, with severe shortages of oxygen and other critical medicines. The huge spike saw India report record-breaking numbers […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) — Monsoon rains triggered floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka killing at least 16 people and leaving more than a quarter of a million homeless, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said Sunday. Heavy downpours in 10 out of the country’s 25 districts since Friday buried most of the victims alive, the DMC said. In the central Kegalle district, a pet dog pointed rescuers to a location where four members of the […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday in a train crash in southern Pakistan, police said. A spokesperson for Pakistan Railways told AFP a train heading from Karachi to Sargodha, derailed on to a track carrying service from Rawalpindi in the opposite direction. “Several people have been killed and many others trapped inside,” the official said. Umar Tufail, a senior police officer at Daharki confirmed the death toll […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A man armed with a knife killed six people and wounded 14 others in a city in eastern China, state media reported Sunday. The attack occurred Saturday afternoon in the streets of Anqing, Anhui province, 430 kilometers (270 miles) west of Shanghai, state television CCTV said. The suspect was arrested and an investigation was underway to determine the circumstances of the attack that unfolded in a pedestrian shopping street, Anqing Public […]
by Armel BAILY Agence France Presse OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) — Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 138 civilians in Burkina Faso’s volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials said Saturday. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore denounced an attack near the borders with Mali and Niger, where jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State have been targeting civilians and soldiers. “Several injured have […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — Hundreds gathered Thursday for the first concert in the Saudi capital since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic to watch performances by Syrian diva Assala Nasri and Kuwaiti crooner Nabeel Shuail. Before stiff rules were brought in a year ago to stem the spread of coronavirus, the ultra-conservative kingdom had started to ease decades-long restrictions on entertainment, as part of efforts to improve its image and attract tourists. “This is […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Nine railway workers were killed in northwest China on Friday after they stepped into the path of a train, state media reported. About 50 workers were doing maintenance on a closed section of a line in Jinchang city when some of them walked onto an open track as the train approached, according to broadcaster CCTV. The railway department has expressed its condolences and pledged to investigate how the accident occurred. The […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Nepal has reported its first death from mucormycosis or “black fungus”, the highly deadly infection affecting thousands of coronavirus patients in neighbouring India. Health ministry spokesman Krishna Prasad Poudel told AFP that there are now at least ten cases in Nepal, which like India has been hit by a huge Covid-19 surge. The 65-year-old man who died was being treated at the intensive care unit at a hospital in western Nepal […]
