As many as two people including a 12-year-old child were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan sentry opened "unprovoked and indiscriminate" firing on pedestrians at the Chaman border in Balochistan, the military's media affairs wing said, Dawn reported.
"Late night at 3 am, a three-storey building suddenly collapsed in Barabanki's Fatehpur Kotwali area. There was a stir in the whole area due to the loud sound of the building falling. We received information about this from the local residents," said Barabanki SP.
Teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are engaged in the relief and rescue work, Barabanki Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar Singh said.
A portion of a two-storey building collapsed on Saturday midnight in the Gauripada area of Bhiwandi city leaving two persons dead, officials said, adding that the building is said to be forty-five years old.
The incident occurred in Lalepur village under Sanaudha police station limits in the district on Friday. The accused has been identified as Ramadhar Tiwari. Those who died were identified as the accused’s brother Rammilan Tiwari (around 60) and his nephew Ajju Tiwari (around 35) while his ow
According to Ottapalam MLA, K Premkumar, the Kozhikode-bound passenger bus from Chennai overturned at Thiruvazhiyode at Vellinezhi Village around 8 am.
Two people lost their lives and 85 others were injured in aerial firing in Karachi on the eve of Pakistan's 76th Independence Day, reported Dawn citing officials.
The truck, carrying a load of apples, overturned on the Shimla-Kinnaur National Highway near the Mashobra bifurcation on the road connecting to Sunni, Tattapani and Karsog.