Tuesday, June 23, 2009 WASHINGTON: One person was reported to have died Monday and several other injured during an above ground rush-hour collision between two metro trains in the US capital, Washington, television channels said. A representative of Washington's Metro transportation system told ABC-7 television that one person was killed in the collision near the Fort Totten Metro station near the border with the state of Maryland. A Metro official told AFP that "there have been some serious injuries" in the crash but she was unable to confirm the fatality. Metro said dozens of passengers have been evacuated from the trains.
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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