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...
NEW YORK: State police say a daylong standoff at a small-town post office has ended with three hostages being released and a suspect in custody. Authorities late Wednesday ordered the suspect to let the hostages go and come out with his hands up.Soon after, the four left the building in Virginia, including a man in a wheelchair. State police Sgt. Michael Conroy says that man is the suspect.Earlier, state police said the man holding the hostages had entered the building pushing a wheelchair. Conroy says authorities believe all the hostages are out. Officers are still checking the building in western Virginia.
Comments