YALA: Two border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb and gun attack in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south, officials said on Thursday.The policemen were on patrol in Yala province on Wednesday when their pick-up truck was hit by a bomb hidden inside a fire extinguisher and then suspected militants opened fire, they said. One died on the way to hospital on Wednesday and the other died on Thursday morning. Separately, trains to the restive south resumed full services on Thursday after a 13-day suspension imposed after a railway worker was killed by insurgents on April 10, officials said.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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