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1 killed, 2 injured in forest fire in southern Peru-Xinhua

LIMA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- A large forest fire left one person dead and two others injured in southern Peru, a regional emergency official said Saturday. The fire in the populated community of Yanahuara in Urubamba province, Cusco region, killed an elderly person whose identity had not yet been determined, Miguel Oscco, head of the regional emergency operations center of Cusco, told local radio station RPP. The two injured people, who suffered second-degree burns, were rushed to the Cusco Regional Hospital for treatment, according to Oscco. The fire remained out of control as intense solar radiation, strong winds and dry vegetation hampered firefighting efforts, Oscco said. Regional authorities were coordinating with the Peruvian Air Force to deploy aircraft to help fight the blaze, ...

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5 killed in mine collapse in N. Afghanistan-Xinhua

KABUL, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Five workers have been killed after a mine collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province, local media outlet TOLOnews reported on Saturday. Naqibullah Masroor, head of press and public relations at the Takhar Police Command, told TOLOnews that the incident occurred at a mine in the Shah Mastan Valley of Chah Ab district. Masroor said the local authorities would release further details about the incident later. The report did not say when the incident occurred. Bordering Tajikistan, Takhar province is rich in various mineral resources and has attracted many miners over recent years, with casualties from mining accidents reported from time to time. ■ Source link

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11 militants killed in counterterrorism operations in Pakistan-Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani security forces killed 11 militants in separate operations in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan provinces, security sources told Xinhua on Saturday. Five militants were killed during an intelligence-based operation in the South Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, said the sources, adding that security forces recovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition. The sources said that on the same day, six other militants were killed by the security forces in a separate operation in the Washuk district of Balochistan province. The sources said the operations are part of Pakistan's ongoing counterterrorism initiative. ■ Source link

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17 killed in multi-vehicle crash on Kenyan highway-Xinhua

NAIROBI, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people were killed early Saturday in a multi-vehicle pileup along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, Kenyan police said. The crash occurred at around 00:10 a.m. (2110 GMT Friday) at Mlima Kiu in the Salama area when the driver of a truck heading for the coastal city of Mombasa attempted to overtake a line of vehicles but clipped the rear right side of another truck traveling in the same direction, according to the police. The impact caused the first truck's driver to lose control. The vehicle then sideswiped two oncoming vehicles heading toward the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The truck swerved into the climbing lane and collided head-on with a minibus carrying 12 passengers, killing the minibus driver and all 12 passengers at the scene. The out-of-con...

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Two Pakistani civilians killed near Indian border, Pakistani sources say-Xinhua

ISLAMABAD, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two Pakistani civilians were killed and another was injured in firing by India's Border Security Force (BSF) near the border in Kasur district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, Pakistani security sources said Friday. The sources said the three villagers had just moved a few steps beyond a border pillar when India's BSF personnel "opened fire on them without warning." None of the villagers was armed. The security sources said the incident constituted a violation of the agreement and standard operating procedures governing the Pakistan-India border. ■ Source link

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