Monday, September 21, 2009 KABUL: Two tanks were destroyed and 16 allies and Afghan forces troops were killed in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan.Hizb-e-Islami spokesman claimed that their fighters have blown up two tanks of the allied forces by a remote control device at Khawaskhelo area of Lugar province. Hizb-e-Islami claimed that eight allied forces troops were also killed in the tanks blow up. Besides four more allied forces troops were killed in another incident of remote control blast blowing up a tank at Galawat area of Laghman province.On the other hand, Hizb-e-Islami spokesman has accepted the responsibility of attack on the joint convoy of allied forces and Afghan army, resulting in the death of two allied forces troops and to Afghan soldiers. Hizb-e-Islami spokesman has confirmed one of their fighters receiving injury.
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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