Thursday, August 13, 2009 PUNE: With 75-year-old person dying of H1N1 at Sassoon Hospital here today, death toll has risen to 19 in the country. So far, 12 people have died of swine flu in Pune only. A 10-month-old boy from Pune succumbed to H1N1 late Wednesday night. The child tested positive for the swine flu and was admitted to Sasoon Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Thereafter, he was shifted to Sahyadri hospital where he succumbed to the virus.So far H1N1 has claimed 19 lives, including 12 in Pune, two each in Mumbai and Gujarat, one each in Nasik, Chennai, and Trivendrum, in India.The virus that travelled from abroad to India didn't show its affect in the beginning. But it started affecting people gradually and killed Pune school girl Reeda Sheikh on August 3. Since then virus is on prowl and killed an Ayurvedic doctor, who was also from Pune.A NRI, who came down to meet his family members in Gujarat, succumbed to the virus infection at a hospital. His wife tested positive for H1N1 and was battling for life in a hospital.Wednesday witnessed highest number of six deaths from swine flu, while today a 75-year-old man became the victim of H1N1. With the elderly man's death, swine flu toll rose to 19.
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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