Saturday, July 04, 2009 KOLKATA: At least eight people died after the bus in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on the rail tracks near the Howrah station in West Bengal on Saturday, Indian police said here. The accident took place around 4pm when the bus fell from Bankim Setu on the railway tracks, almost 50 feet below the bridge. "Rescue operation is on. We are apprehending that at least six to seven people are dead in the accident and another five or more are injured," a police official said. Police and railway medical teams have rushed to the spot. "The bus fell between the two platforms (11 and 12). We have stalled operations in platforms from Platform No 10 to 23. But local trains are plying normally," Eastern Railway's chief public relations officer Samir Goswami said. "Operations on those platforms have been stopped because we have cut the electricity supply following the accident," Goswami added. A number of long distance trains were held up.
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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