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2 die in roof collapse

Two people died while and two other received serious injuries when the roof of their dilapidated house collapsed in Gomti Bazaar, Tibbi City Police...

31 US special forces die as Taliban down helicopter

Thirty-one US special forces, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and seven Afghan...

Five die as roof collapses

The heavy monsoon rain that lashed the twin cities late on Sunday night and continued on Monday in intervals killed as many as five...

2 die in firing on NATO oil tanker

Indiscriminate firing on a NATO oil tanker on Monday led to the death of two persons including the driver in a suburb of Quetta....

Millions will die if India stops AIDS drugs: UN

Millions of people dependent on life-saving generic drugs to treat HIV/AIDS will die if India stops producing cheap drugs for the disease due to...

Eldest son of last Austrian emperor dies at 98

Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, the eldest son of the last Austrian emperor who became a champion of European unity, died aged 98 at his home in...

2 die, 10 injure during a protest in Mianwali

At least two persons were killed while 10 others were injured when they came under the police fires, shelling and baton charge during a...

Three die as thousands rally against Syria’s Assad

Syrian security forces killed three demonstrators and wounded at least a dozen more Friday as hundreds of thousands turned out to demand the departure...

Charlie Sheen’s sitcom character to die

Charlie Sheen’s character in “Two and a Half Men” is to be killed off. The troubled actor was fired from the sitcom and replaced...

‘I’d rather die of illness than burn in this hell’

Fighting for survival in the newly-renovated Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Emergency Ward, the patients are facing another kind of a problem but on...

Two die from poisonous gas

At least two people died and one was injured owing to poisonous gas. Reportedly, the poisonous gas leaked out in a local rice factory...

Seven, including policeman, die in separate parts of city

KARACHI - Seven people, including a policeman, lost their lives in separate incidents across the city on Friday.
Sub-inspector Abdul Karim Chohan, 50, was killed in the wee hours when unidentified culprits opened fire on him in Musharraf Colony.
His body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi. He was in charge of the Hawkesbay Police Post.
Naveed Khan, 19, was killed in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal police precincts when unidentified culprits opened fire on him near Moti

Six die as Afghan ambulance bomb targets police

KANDAHAR - Six Afghan security personnel were killed Thursday as Taliban gunmen detonated a bomb hidden in an ambulance amid an attack on a police centre near the key southern city of Kandahar.
The blast was the latest to target Afghanistan's 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 the

Three of a family among four die mysteriously

GUJRANWALA - At least four people including three of a family were found dead in their rooms mysteriously in two separate incidents. In the first incident, Razia, along with her two children 3-year-old Rehman and 11-month-old Arham, was found dead in her bedroom at Garjakh. Police have taken the head of the family Abbas into custody for suspicious behavior and started investigations. The police said Abbas himself hanged his wife Razia and then strangled his children due to

4 die in separate areas of city

KARACHI - A man was gunned down, a couple fell victim to karo-kari and a minor girl was burnt to death in separate incidents on Saturday. According to details, a man was gunned down in the Teen Hatti area. Police said that 60-year-old Afzal was killed when unidentified culprits opened fire on him under the Teen Hatti bridge.
KARO-KARI: The Sukkan police found bullet-riddled bodies of a 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman from Peer jo Goth. It is suspected that the

Three girls die in Attock roof collapse

ATTOCK - Three girls were killed when the roof of their house caved.
The incident took place in Pandi Gheb tehsil of Attock district at the house of Hafiz Hussain Ahmed when three girls were inside the roof when its roof collapsed due to breakage of its wooden beams.
All the girls, identified as Nadia, Samina and Sidra, died on the spot.

No end to Karachi killings, 13 more die

KARACHI - Sporadic incidents of targeted killings continued in Karachi on Tuesday, claiming the life of 13 people, including a woman and a minor girl, and injuring another 23.As per details, at least three people were killed and 15 others, including Rangers personnel, injured in firing incidents in Orangi.
Sources said unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at Shaheen Qabayl Hotel near Metro Cinema killing at least five people and injuring 13 others.TPO Khurram Waris said