COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels accused government forces of killing at least 45 civilians Tuesday in a fresh artillery and mortar attack.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said a makeshift hospital at Mullivaikal was hit on Tuesday morning and those who were wounded in a shelling over the weekend were hit again.Sri Lanka's military denies using heavy weapons in the area and in turn accuse the Tigers of attacking civilians who attempt to escape the small patch of land still under their control.
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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