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BAKHRAN - At least three workers were shot dead while three others were injured when some unidentified men attacked a workers' camp and opened fires on the workers here on Monday, police said.
As a result, three persons were killed. The deceased are identified as Sajjad Amed, Rab Nawaz and Mohammad Bux while three others wounded in the incident.
After the incident, the injured were shifted to district hospital Dera Ghazi Khan, where they were stated in critical

LAHORE - Aslam Masih, 26, a taxi driver and resident of the Francis Town Chung, who was kidnapped six days ago along with his taxi from Chung police limits, was found dead in Head Balloki on Sunday.
Police registered a case only after the victim was found dead though his father had submitted an application on the day of his son's abduction. The victim's father, Sharif Masih had reported to the police around six days back that his son had been kidnapped along with his taxi as he

WASHINGTON - At least 45 people were dead after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes in seven southern US states, media reported Sunday. The tornadoes left a trail of destruction in North Carolina Saturday, leveling homes and businesses and knocking out power, the NBC television network reported.
The fast-moving storm toppled trees and power lines, tore roofs off houses and scattered tractor-trailers across highways. Some two dozen tornadoes were reported in the southern states

WASHINGTON - At least 45 people were dead after a powerful storm whipped up tornadoes in seven southern US states, media reported Sunday.
The tornadoes left a trail of destruction in North Carolina Saturday, leveling homes and businesses and knocking out power, the NBC television network reported.
The fast-moving storm toppled trees and power lines, tore roofs off houses and scattered tractor-trailers across highways.
Some two dozen tornadoes were reported in the

QUETTA - At least seven people, including a woman and children, were wounded in Dera Allayar area of Jaffarabad district when a boundary wall of a house collapsed owing to a heavy downpour on Saturday.
Reportedly, torrential rains hit different parts of Jaffarabad including Dera Allayar area where the boundary wall of a house located at Gott Muhalla Bhutti fell down causing injuries to seven people including a woman and children.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital

ISLAMABAD - The water level in Tarbela Dam touched dead level of 1378 feet on Saturday.
According to data released by Indus River System Authority (IRSA) here, the maximum water level in River Indus at Tarbela was 1378 feet, while inflow and outflow in the dam was recorded same as 26900 cusecs.
The water level at River Jhelum at Mangla was 1092.90 feet which is 52.90 feet above its dead level of 1040 feet whereas the inflow and outflow of water in the dam was recorded as

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan. "A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar today," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
"Ten people have been martyred and

SANAA = At least seven people were killed including four policemen who clashed with a dissident army unit, as hundreds of thousands of anti-regime protesters rallied across Yemen on Wednesday. "Police attacked an army checkpoint in Amran province," 170 kilometres (105 miles) north of Sanaa, "killing one officer and wounding two soldiers," a military official told AFP. The four policemen died as the security forces traded fire with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in the

ASADABAD - A suicide attack ripped through a gathering of elders in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 10 people including five children, officials said.
The bomber struck in Kunar, one of Afghanistan's most restive provinces and an insurgent stronghold on the border with Pakistan, where Taliban-led militants fighting the Afghan government and US-led troops have rear bases.
"A suicide attacker targeted a gathering of tribal elders in the Asmar district of Kunar

KARACHI - A man suspected to be a bandit was shot down by Rangers near the Karimabad flyover, the Gulberg police said on Sunday. According to Rangers officials, 30-year-old Jahangir was looting citizens near the Karimabad railway track. Rangers personnel were passing through on motorcycles when they saw Jahangir looting a family. They ordered him to surrender. However, when he tried to escape from the scene, they opened fire on him. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

LAHORE - One person was shot dead while a quack claimed the life of another in the provincial capital on Saturday. According to the police, Muhammad Amir was killed while his brother, Salman, received multiple wounds after Amir's in laws attacked them in Baghbanpura over a matrimonial dispute.
Amir had married his cousin which angered his uncle Aslam. The two brothers were returning to their residence at Bhatti Chowk, when four armed attackers opened fire at them on the

THE HAGUE - A man opened fire on shoppers at a mall in the western Netherlands on Saturday, killing five and wounding at least 11 before turning the gun on himself, a local official said. "There are at present six dead, including the person responsible," Bas Eenhoorn, the acting mayor of Alphen aan den Rijn, told a press conference.
Four people were seriously wounded and at least seven less badly hurt, he said."A man with an automatic weapon opened fire on the crowd" in the

ISLAMABAD - The water level in Tarbela Dam dropped almost to dead level of 1378 feet on Saturday, only about 0.88 feet high.
According to data released by Indus River System Authority (IRSA) here, the maximum water level in River Indus at Tarbela was 1378.88 feet which was only 0.88 feet above its dead level of 1378 feet. Water inflow in the dam was recorded as 20,700 cusecs and outflow was 30,000 cusecs. The water level at River Jhelum at Mangla was 1089.70 feet which is 49.70

QUETTA - A Punjabi barber was killed in a hand grenade attack at his shop here on Jail road on Thursday night. According to detail and some people came and threw a hand grenade inside a half shuttered barber shop and disappeared. The grenade went off in the middle of the shop.
The shop owner who was named as Mohammad Maskeen belonging to district Jhelum of Punjab province received fatal injuries. He was shifted to civil hospital, but succumbed to his injuries before being given

MURIDKE - Dacoits killed a newly married person and seriously injured his cousin when they were going to the Lahore airport on Thursday morning on Muridke-Narowal Road.
Reportedly, Basharat Ali, 30, of Qila Kalarwala came back to Pakistan from abroad after seven years for marriage a month ago. On the day of the incident, he was going to the Lahore airport with his brother Ashiq Hussain and cousins, Atta Muhammad and Khalid Latif, when five dacoits ordered them to stop.
As

KANDAHAR - Six Afghan security personnel were killed on Thursday as Taliban gunmen detonated a bomb hidden in an ambulance at a police centre near the key southern city of Kandahar.
The attack was the latest to target Afghanistan's Western-backed security forces just a few months before US-led NATO troops start limited withdrawals after nearly 10 years of war against the Taliban.
"Insurgents have blown up an ambulance vehicle full of explosives which killed six members of

PESHAWAR - Two militants including a commander were killed and two others injured as in an ambush at Bagan, border area of Kurram Agency near Hangu on Tuesday morning. The reports reaching here said that the militant commander, Noor Mohammad, along with his two accomplices riding a vehicle, when unidentified armed men attacked them.
The assailants also hurled a grenade on the militants' vehicle. Noor Mohammad and Fazal Mehmood died on the spot while two others were injured in the