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...
HEART: A bomb blast targeting police in Afghanistan's western city of Herat on Monday killed 12 people and wounded another 20, the provincial police chief said. "Twelve people have been killed in this explosion and 20 other people have been wounded. Among those killed are two police," commander Esmatullah Alizai told reporters. The blast was caused by a bomb placed in a roadside rubbish bin, he said. Another police officer said earlier it was a suicide attack.
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