KABUL: A bus plunged off a mountain road in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountains Wednesday, catching fire and leaving as many as 35 people dead, though authorities were still pulling burned bodies from the wreckage.
Dr. Sanim Rasouli, health director in Baghlan province, says the bus picked up speed, struck other vehicles and then plunged off a road near the Salang Pass, a major route through the mountains about 70 miles (115 kilometers) north of the capital, Kabul.
“The bus failed to brake and hit several other small vehicles on its way down a hill,” Rasouli said, adding that the brakes might not have been working.
He said dozens of people — some of them children — burned to death when the bus caught fire.
The Afghan Interior Ministry reported that up to 35 people were killed in the accident just north of the 12,700-foot- (3,800-meter-) high Salang Pass, the site of an avalanche earlier this year that killed more than 170 people.
KABUL Afghanistan : At least 35 people were killed Wednesday when a bus crashed into a truck and then burst into flames on a treacherous pass in northern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.
The bus was travelling north from Kabul along the narrow Salang pass when it “had an accident with a truck, as a result of which 35 passengers, including women, men and children, were killed,” a ministry statement said.
The Salang pass connecting north and south Afghanistan is a notoriously dangerous stretch of road and the scene of avalanches in February that killed 170 people.
The interior ministry said Wednesday’s accident appeared to have been caused by the “narrow width of the road and the carelessness of the driver”.
“In the first moments after the incident police and first aid health workers arrived on the site and transferred a number of people to the provincial hospital,” it said.
It did not give details of the number injured.
The bus was a Mercedes Benz 303, it said, which can accommodate more than 50 passengers.
The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said Sunday.
Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed last month in his hotel room in what Dubai police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency. The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillize Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website. The assassins used this method so that it would seem that his death was natural as there were no signs of resistance shown by the victim, he said. Dubai authorities have named 26 alleged members of the team that tracked and killed the Palestinian and said they operated in disguise and used fraudulent British, Irish, French, German and Australian passports. People with the same names as many of the suspects live in Israel and say their identities were stolen. The passport abuse has drawn criticism from the European Union, and some of the governments involved have summoned the Israeli ambassadors to their countries to protest. Israel has not denied or confirmed it played any role but its foreign minister said there was nothing to link it to the killing.
The militants torched a NATO oil tanker at Ring Road, Peshawar,
According to police sources, around seven militants assailed a NATO oil tanker and opened fire at it. Resultantly, the oil tanker caught fire, while the driver and cleaner of the vehicle got injured. Police retaliated the fire in which a militant got injured, while three of them were arrested.
Luckhnow India: At least 22 people on their way to a wedding were killed and 30 injured when the bus they were travelling in fell into a river in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, an official said on Wednesday.
“The mishap took place after midnight at Jalaun’s Maharajpura village that shares a border with Madhya Pradesh.
The bus skidded off the road and fell into the Pahuj river,” Superintendent of Police Prem Gautam told IANS over phone from Jalaun, about 250 km from here.
“We believe now no one is trapped inside the bus. We managed to rescue 40 passengers, of which 30 had received injuries in the accident,” he added.
The passengers were on their way from Muraina in Madhya Pradesh to Jalaun to attend a wedding.
Police are hunting for the driver of the bus, who managed to escape following the accident.
was first posted on February 17, 2010 at 11:57 am.
MUMBAI: Actress Katrina Kaif seems to be following beau Salman Khan’s footsteps. Every fortnight, Salman is known to make an appearance for his fans on the balcony of his Galaxy Apartment in Mumbai’s Bandra neighbourhood. At times, he even meets them personally. Katrina did the same at her house in Andheri recently.
“Katrina was down with a fever and food poisoning, but she kept her professional commitments,” says a source. While she was leaving to perform at an awards functions, she saw fans who had gathered near her building for a glimpse of her. “So she came out of her car and spent 15 minutes with them,” adds the source.
Also like Salman, who often travels in an auto-rickshaw to work, recently Katrina made her first auto-ride. The actress and her manager had come out of a multiplex after watching Ishqiya at 10.30 pm. “When she couldn’t find her driver due to bad network connectivity, she immediately took an auto from Bandra to Andheri,” says the source.
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Iranian opposition supporters marched through the streets of Isfahan on Wednesday, as tensions escalated in the major oil producer, six months after a disputed presidential election plunged the Islamic Republic into its deepest internal crisis since it was founded three decades ago.
Reports said that security forces armed with batons and teargas later clashed with the protesters, supporters of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
One report said plainclothes agents used teargas and pepper gas against people who were gathering for a Montazeri memorial service to be held in a mosque in the city of Isfahan, while another said women and children were among people beaten up.
Some opposition supporters were injured and dozens were arrested, according to reformist websites, whose reports could not be independently verified. There was no immediate comment from the authorities. If confirmed, they would further highlight escalating tension The Jaras website said many demonstrators were hurt during the clashes in Isfahan, which occurred during the traditional third day of mourning for Montazeri, who died on Saturday night at the age of 87 in the holy Shi’ite Muslim city of Qom.
Another reformist website, Parlemannews, said at least 50 opposition supporters, including four journalists, were arrested in Isfahan, one of Iran’s biggest and most historic cities.
The website said plainclothes agents used pepper gas on a cleric named Adib, who it said was an ally of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and who was supposed to deliver the memorial service sermon, and arrested him by the Seyed mosque.
Security forces surrounded the mosque to stop people entering, the Rah-e Sabz website said.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan news : An Afghan senator was killed when he drove through a police ambush set for Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.
Mohammad Younus — also known as Shirin Agha, or Dear Sir — was going home in the early hours when the incident occurred in Puli Khumri, capital of troubled northern Baghlan province, Mohammad Akbar Barikzai told AFP.
Barikzai said Younus, a member of Afghanistan’s upper house of parliament representing Baghlan, failed to stop at a police checkpoint set up as part of a planned ambush of Taliban militants.
“They continued to drive after being ordered by police to stop so the police opened fire,” an interior ministry statement said.
“Unfortunately the senator and his driver were killed and a third person accompanying them was wounded,” it said, adding that the ministry has opened an investigation.
The security situation in northern Afghanistan has deteriorated over the past year with government authority consistently challenged by Taliban-linked insurgents.
Around 113,000 international troops are battling the intensifying insurgency under US and NATO command, with a new strategy aiming to hand over more authority to Afghan security forces.
In the past four years, direct fire or suicide attacks have killed one senator and 10 other MPs.
Wednesday’s incident is the first in which Afghan police have killed a senator accidentally.
NEW DELHI: Six persons, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured when a bus carrying them plunged into a gorge at Basanthnagar village here in the wee hours today, police said.
The incident occurred when the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) bus, which was on its way to Godavarikhani from Hyderabad, fell into a gorge from a narrow bridge, killing six persons, including the driver on the spot, they said.
The injured have been admitted to Singareni hospital at Godavarikhani, police added.
was first posted on December 22, 2009 at 11:29 am.
KABUL Afghanistan : At least 35 people were killed Wednesday when a bus crashed into a truck and then burst into flames on a treacherous pass in northern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.
The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said Sunday.
The militants torched a NATO oil tanker at Ring Road, Peshawar,
Luckhnow India: At least 22 people on their way to a wedding were killed and 30 injured when the bus they were travelling in fell into a river in Uttar Pradesh’s Jalaun district, an official said on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: Six persons, including a woman, were killed and 14 others injured when a bus carrying them plunged into a gorge at Basanthnagar village here in the wee hours today, police said.
