Tuesday, August 25, 2009 KANDAHAR: Eight people were killed and 13 others wounded when an explosion ripped through Afghanistan's troubled city of Kandahar, a hospital doctor said. "We have received eight dead bodies and 13 wounded from the blast this evening and they all seem to be civilians," Doctor Asmatullah, who like many Afghans has only one name, said at the main hospital in the city. A senior police official said the blast was caused by a suicide car bomb.
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...
Comments