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A senior Indian army officer has been killed in a gun battle with separatist militants in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Colonel Neeraj Sood was “leading his troops” when he was gunned down by militants in Lolab area, the army said.
He is the highest ranking officer to be killed by militants in Kashmir in 2010.
Despite a decline in violence in Kashmir in recent years, there are fears that militants are trying to regroup in the region.
Would be at least 2.000 death in riots broken up from June 10 in south Kyrgyzstan. Premier Rosa Otunbaieva affirmed it in an interview at russian newspaper ‘Kommersant’. Officially bill is 191 victims, but “I’d increase at least 10 times the number of death”, Otunbaieva said. (RCD)
After three days of ethnic rioting that spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation, many streets in Osh city lay in smoldering ruins on Sunday night.
The official death toll rose to more than 100, and thousands of refugees poured across the border into Uzbekistan as the authorities were unable to contain the murderous mobs.
Whole sections of Osh, where longstanding tensions between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority exploded into violence Thursday night, were all but deserted on Sunday, and heavy black smoke still billowed from uzbek enclaves set afire by kyrgyz gangs.
At least 73 bodies have been pulled out of the mangled wreckage where two trains crashed in eastern India early Friday in an incident authorities linked to Maoist rebels.
By Friday night, hours after the massive collision, prospects were getting dim for anybody else left in the wreckage of crushed train cars, rescuers said.
Also about 115 passengers were injured when 13 cars of the Lokmanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Express derailed, capsized on a parallel track and were slammed by a cargo train, authorities said.
Gunmen attacked worshippers in two Ahmedi worship places in Garhi Shahu and Model Town areas in Lahore on Friday, taking hostages and killings at least 70 people besides injuring around 100 including police personnel.
The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw grenades at two Ahmadi worship places. At least 23 persons were killed in Model Town while 47 casualties were reported at Garhi Shahu. Police cleared worship places after intense fighting. One of the assailants died on the spot while according to reports police arrested two attackers one of them in injured condition.