JAMMU: Police say at least 21 people were killed when an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into River Chenab in the Indian held Kashmir (IHK). Seven others were injured in the accident. Senior police official Haseeb Mughal said the accident happened early Monday morning near Bhanderkot, a mountainous region about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast from Jammu, one of the main cities in India's occupied Jammu-Kashmir state.Mughal said rescue operations were continuing at the accident site. The bus plunged about 800 feet (244 meters) into the fast-moving Chenab River. Deadly road accidents are common in India _ often caused by aging vehicles, overloading and reckless driving on poorly maintained roads.
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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