Dhaka collapse: Rescue operation’s search for survivors
Amidst all the chaos and depressing scenes, there was some jubilation when a rescue team leader announced that they had found more people alive in a particular pocket inside the rubble. Rescue teams have been…
BNN tracks down assets with drug dealer in Mataram
The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) is currently tracking assets with HK, a 45-year-old male from Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), who is allegedly a drug dealer. “This is a step we are conducting to cut off the drug trafficking…
Survivors located in Bangladesh building
Rescuers have located 40 survivors trapped in a room on the fourth floor of a collapsed Dhaka garment factory building. Deep cracks visible in the walls of the building had compelled police to order it evacuated a day before it collapsed, officials said today. More than 230 people were killed when the eight-story building splintered into a pile of concrete because factories based there ignored the order and kept more than 2000 people working. Yesterday’s disaster in the Dhaka suburb of Savar is the worst ever for Bangladesh’s booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire less than five months earlier that killed 112 people. Workers at both sites made clothes for major brands…
Three More Tibetans Die in Self-Immolations
BEIJING — Three Tibetans died on Wednesday after setting fire to themselves in two Tibetan regions of western China to protest Chinese rule, according to reports on Thursday by Tibet advocacy groups and Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the American government. Two of the dead, monks named Kunchok Woser and Lobsang Dawa, self-immolated near their monastery in Dzoge County in Sichuan Province, according to Free Tibet, an…
Death toll in Bangladesh building collapse rises to 243
Savar: With nearly 250 people killed in one of the worst building collapses in Bangladesh, thousands of distraught people on Thursday watched rescuers search for their loved ones trapped under the debris of the eight-story complex that had come crashing down within seconds. A total of 101 bodies were pulled out of the debris of the collapsed building today. During yesterday’s rescue operation 142 bodies had been retrieved. The rise in death toll to 243 was confirmed by Wali Ashraf Khan, an inspector of Detective Branch of police, who has been acting as the in-charge of corpse management control room. “So far 2,013 people were rescued alive from under the debris,” Major General Abul Hassan…
Sunni fighters take over town in northern Iraq after clashes with government forces
Sunni fighters have taken over a town in northern Iraq as armed conflict escalates between government forces and the Sunni Arab minority across the country. At least 128 people have died since the Iraqi army opened fire at Sunni protesters on Tuesday. Gunmen seized the town of Suleiman Beg 150 miles north of Baghdad, capturing the police station and…
Pak Taliban warn people not to participate in general election
Islamabad: The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has distributed pamphlets in several Pakistani cities, including Peshawar and Karachi, warning people not to participate in next month’s landmark general election. Leaflets distributed in several areas of Karachi, the country’s largest city, threatened people not to attend political rallies or cast their…
Pak clerics issue ‘fatwa’ to make voting compulsory
Islamabad: Pakistani religious scholars on Thursday issued a ‘fatwa’ that declared voting in the country’s upcoming general election was “compulsory under Islamic injunctions”, a senior religious leader said. Over 300 clerics from different schools of Islamic thought issued the decree in Islamabad nearly two weeks ahead of the May 11 general elections, Pakistan…
Lanka opposition wants international observers for polls
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party on Thursday called for the deployment of international observers to monitor the provincial council elections in September in the Tamil-dominated north. “There has to be a…
Myanmar Activists: 7 Injured in Mine Crackdown
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Activists in Myanmar say police have injured seven people and arrested three others in a new crackdown on residents opposed to a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine project. The violence occurred Thursday near northwest Myanmar’s Letpadaung mine as farmers plowed their land, which was seized for the project. Environmental activist Han Win Aung says one farmer was…
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