Month: August 2012

At least two people were killed and 15 injured when three buildings collapsed following an explosion in a fireworks workshop in Pakistan’s Multan city on Saturday, media reports said.

Several women and children were among those injured when the blast occurred in the in densely-populated Hussain Agahi Chowk area of Multan this morning.

Officials said two injured persons died at Nishtar Hospital.

“I was going to the market to fuel my car when I heard a huge blast…and in a blink, the building and two surrounding houses (were) razed to ground,” Basharat Ali, an eye witness, said.

A Kenyan police chief says a blast on a busy street in the capital, Nairobi, has killed at least one person.

Anthony Kibuchi said authorities suspect that the person killed was carrying explosives, but police are still investigating.

The blast last evening happened near a military air base, and Kibuchi said authorities will try to determine if the base or military personnel were the intended target.

Downtown Nairobi has seen a series of grenade attacks over the last year, with one such attack killing nine people.

One person was killed and several vital bridges and large stretches of roads were washed away in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Manali area of Kullu district, cutting off areas beyond Manali from the rest of the state.

The flash floods that occurred late last night at Dhundi, 20 km from Manali near the construction site of Rohtang Tunnel, washed away the bailey bridge constructed by Border Roads Organisation.

A 25-year-old girl has been allegedly kidnapped from Manjhanpur area here, police said on Saturday.

The girl had gone shopping with her aunt yesterday when some car-borne men hit her scooty following which she fell down. The men then pulled her in the car and sped away towards Allahabad, they said.

On a complaint filed by the girl’s father, a kidnapping case has been registered and efforts are on to trace her, police said.

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A man allegedly set ablaze his paramour over a trivial issue here, police said on Saturday.

Ram Gopal had an illicit relationship with a married woman. Yesterday when her husband had gone out for work, Gopal went to the woman’s house where they had an argument over some issue. Following the altercation, Gopal set the woman ablaze, they said.

The woman was rushed to a hospital in critical condition by her neighbours but she succumbed to injuries, police said.

–PTI

A constable was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a police barracks here, officials said on Saturday.

Pawan Kumar (25) was found dead yesterday morning in the barracks at Katirav chowki in Phoolpur area where he had gone to sleep after completing his night duty, they said.

Kumar, a resident of Bhadaulia village, had been posted at Katirav since January.

The cause of the death is yet to be ascertained, the officials said.

–PTI

A 19 year old girl, student of BSc Computer Science, murdered her father last year when he attempted to rape and kill her. She lost her mother five years ago and was living with her father and a brother. The Madras high court, has quashed the case against her and set her off.

The court justified her act saying that when a girl is put in a situation where she is about to be raped by her father, she would use any weapon available in an attempt to protect her modesty.

In the worst accident this monsoon season in Uttarakhand, 27 people were today killed and 25 others injured when a bus in which they were travelling fell into a 200 mt deep ditch at Chilhal village in Chakrata area of the district.

Three jawans of fire services were among six persons killed as torrential rains continued to pound Uttarakhand on Saturday triggering landslides and flash floods which flattened homes and stranded hundreds of pilgrims with the Chardham Yatra coming to a grinding halt.

The Garhwal region bore the brunt of nature’s fury with the government sounding a high alert in the state after the met department’s warning of very heavy rains.