Sunday, 23 March 2014

Another deadly road accident in Egypt kills 17

March 23

Seventeen workers were killed Sunday after their company vehicle crashed in an accident on the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road near Beheira governorate. At least two injured and were sent to a nearby...

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Maharashtra tanker blast toll rises to 10

March 23

The toll in Saturday’s petrol tanker blast went up to 10 with two more people dying due to their injuries, officials said here Sunday. According to investigating officer D.K. Palwankar of Kasa police...

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70 years later, U.S. soldier killed in Normandy returns home

March 23

U.S. Army Private First Class Lawrence S. Gordon — killed in Normandy in 1944, then mistakenly buried as a German soldier — will soon be going home to his family. But don’t thank the American military...

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Final rites: ‘Mothers can’t even recognise their children’

March 23

The death toll has risen to 42 people when two passenger buses carrying smuggled petrol and diesel on their rooftops caught fire after a fierce collision with a truck on the RCD Highway near Gadani...

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Nigeria: Scores of human skulls found in Ibadan

March 23

Residents of Oyo State capital on Saturday evening received with shock the discovery of an underground dungeon where hundreds of human skulls were found. Most of the people who besieged the site,...

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Update: At least 19 dead, 32 missing in Uganda Lake Albert boat capsize

March 23

At least 19 people were dead and 32 others missing in a boat accident off Lake Albert in Western Uganda on Saturday, according to reports quoting local security officials. Lake Albert lies along the...

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