COLOMBO: Three shells slammed into a make-shift hospital in Sri Lanka's northeastern war zone on Wednesday, killing 38 civilians, a doctor said."Three shells hit the hospital today and 38 people were killed," T. Varatharajah, a doctor working at the facility in Mullivaikal, said.He said the attack followed a similar strike on Tuesday, when 47 people were reported killed and 56 wounded.He did not say who was responsible for the shelling, although the rebels blamed government forces for the attack.The Sri Lankan military denies it is using heavy weapons in the area. Sri Lankan authorities also say that doctors there are hostages of the Tigers and have questioned the credibility of their accounts.
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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