NEW DELHI: Angry over Railways’ decision to withdraw the stoppage of a few trains in Bihar’s Khusrpur station, protestors on Monday torched three trains in Khusrpur and Fathua and ransacked the Khusrpur station uprooting rail lines under Danapur division. In the first incident protestors targeted the Shramjeevi Express in Khusrpur and torched two bogies of the train. Four bogies of the Danapur-Rajgir were also torched. Deputy Superintendent of Government Railway Police (Patna East) Rajendra Singh said hundreds of people from nearby villages torched the train and stormed the Khusrupur railway station this morning, ransacked the station and burnt it down. In a similar incident, angry commuters in Fathua, near Patna railway station, came on the tracks in the morning and forced the Danapur-Jainagar Intercity Express to a stop, they then asked all passengers to disembark before setting some coaches on fire. Barring a few minor injuries to the railway staff, no causalities or injuries have been reported from any of the incidents. Police and additional forces have been rushed to control the situation.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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