‘Accident’ News
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Houston, Sep 13 (DPA) Hurricane Ike made landfall early Saturday lashing the barrier island of Galveston near Houston with winds over over 170 km an hour, and flooding vast tracts of low land. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Kuala Lumpur, Sep 13 (IANS) A Malaysian lawmaker and two journalists have been detained in connection with allegedly racist remarks made during the campaign for the parliamentary by-election that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim won last month. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Anuj Aditya Singh, who was critically injured after a speeding BMW car driven by an industrialist’s son hit the motorcycle he was riding, died here Saturday - in a chilling reminder of another accident nine years ago that came to be known as the BMW case.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Srinagar, Sep 13 (IANS) A day after two people were killed and 40 injured in clashes with security personnel, agitated mobs Saturday forced the shutdown of shops in Lal Chowk, the centre of this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, by pelting stones at police and paramilitary forces. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
New Delhi, Sep 13(IANS) Anuj Aditya Singh, 25, who was critically injured after a speeding BMW car hit the motorcycle on which he was riding pillion, died here Saturday. “Anuj died this morning. We will follow the case,” the victim’s uncle Tejas Chauhan told IANS. The body of the victim has been taken to his house in Ghaziabad. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Washington, Sep 13 (DPA) At least 15 people died and more than 100 sustained injuries in a train accident near Los Angeles, KTLA news channel reported, citing rescue teams. Hours after a commuter train and a freight train crashed at 4.23 p.m. near Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, rescuers were still pulling trapped passengers from the train wreckage. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Dubai, Sep 13 (IANS) Two Indians, who along with five others were killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Dubai Sep 3, have been identified. The two Indians who were killed in the crash that occurred as the helicopter was taking off from an offshore oilfield have been identified as Julius Alex Pereira and Jayant Ingale, according to a joint statement issued by Dubai Petroleum and four other firms which employed the victims. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Abhayapuri (Assam), Sep 13 (IANS) For just Rs.400, organised criminal networks smuggle Bangladeshi citizens to India despite the barbed wire fence that separates the two countries along much of their border, officials said Saturday. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Koblenz (Germany), Sep 13 (DPA) Michael Schumacher’s manager Willi Weber is facing a charge of inciting embezzlement. Weber, who managed the seven-time world champion Schumacher throughout his career and also managed his brother Ralf Schumacher, will face charges in a Koblenz court Sep 29. (more…)
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Vancouver, Sep 13 (IANS) Three Indian students, who are undergoing pilot training here, narrowly survived when their small Cessna plane crashed near the town of Golden. The three, who are on student visas in Canada and have six months of flying experience, were Thursday flying a Cessna 175 owned by Sky Quest Aviation near Golden, about 700 km from here. (more…)
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