MANSEHRA: At least three persons died and five injured when a bus and car collided near Mansehra on E-35 Expressway. According to the motorway police sources, a speeding car and bus collided on Hazara Motorway near Mansehra city and left a woman and two minor girls on-board the unfortunate car dead on the spot. In […]
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Bride, 3 others die as wedding-party car plunges into ravine
MUZAFFARABAD: At least four persons, including the bride, were killed and five others injured as a car, carrying a wedding-party, skidded off the road and fell into a deep ravine at Noseiri village on Muzaffarabad-Neelam Valley road on Sunday. According to the police, the ill-fated Toyota Corolla car was on its way to Muzaffarbad from […]
All eight crew killed in cargo plane crash in Greece
Kavala, Greece: All eight crew members of a cargo plane that crashed near the Greek city of Kavala died in the accident, Serbia’s defence minister said on Sunday. The Ukrainian-operated Antonov An-12 was carrying mines and around 11 tonnes of weapons to Bangladesh when it crashed on Saturday night, minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said. Videos […]
IIU leadership expresses grief over loss of precious lives of students in accident
ISLAMABAD: International Islamic University (IIU) Rector Dr. Masoom Yasinzai and President Dr. Hathal Homoud Alotaibi have expressed their sorrow and grief over the loss of precious lives of the varsity’s students in a road accident on Sunday. At least 19 people were killed including 05 students of IIU and several others were injured when a […]
19 passengers died,15 other injured in a bus accident in DIK
ZHOB: At least 19 passengers died and 15 other were injured on Sunday morning after a passenger bus fell into a gorge in Mughal Kot area of Drazinda tehsil in district Dera Ismail Khan. According to the DI Khan police, a Super Sada Bahar coach was on its way from Rawalpindi to Quetta when it […]
Seventeen people found dead in S.African nightclub: police
JOHANNESBURG: At least 17 young people were found dead at a nightclub in a township in South Africa’s southern city of East London on Sunday, police said. “We got a report about 17 (people) that died in a local tavern in Scenery Park which is based in East London,” a provincial police chief brigadier Thembinkosi […]
Greek rescuers save more than 100 migrants in the Aegean
ATHENS: More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said. “A large-scale rescue operation of migrants is underway from late Saturday two miles south of the island of Delos. So far 108 migrants have been rescued, while according to […]
Thousands of sheep drown as Sudan ship sinks
KHARTOUM: An overladen ship crammed with thousands of sheep sank Sunday in Sudan’s Red Sea port of Suakin drowning the animals on board but with all crew surviving, port officials said. The livestock vessel was exporting the animals from Sudan to Saudi Arabia when it sank after several thousand more animals were loaded on board […]
Bodies pulled from wreckage of Nepal plane
Pokhara, Nepal: Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said Monday. Air traffic control lost contact with the Twin Otter plane operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air shortly after it took off from Pokhara […]
Nepal flight missing with 22 on board
Kathmandu: A passenger plane went missing in Nepal on Sunday with 22 people on board, its airline said. The Twin Otter aircraft took off from the western town of Pokhara at 9:55 am (0410 GMT) but soon lost contact with air traffic control. “A domestic flight bound for Jomsom from Pokhara has lost contact,” Sudarshan […]