KABUL: At least 60 people have been killed in a suspected US air raid in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, the governor of the province said.Two petrol lorries were hit by the air attack, government sources told an Arab TV on Friday, but a Taliban spokesman said only one abandoned lorry was hit, killing 90 civilians.According to reports, members of the Taliban reportedly hijacked the lorries, travelling from Tajikistan, and took them to the district of Aliabad."The Taliban there said 'Help yourself' to the village, and a large crowd appeared," Bays said."It appears that then the US then launched a bombing mission to bomb those trucks.""Afghan intelligence sources said that a very large number of people had been killed, and the governor of Kunduz province said many of the dead were Taliban."A Taliban spokesman confirmed that the two lorries were hijacked, but that one got stuck in the mud in Aliabad district and was abandoned.The air attack hit the abandoned lorry, the spokesman said, killing 90 civilians who had come out to take the fuel.
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...
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