CPRO North Eastern Railway Pankaj Kumar on Friday confirmed that as many as three people have been killed in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment. Seven have been critically injured and five people have sustained minor injuries.
According to authorities, seven fatalities were confirmed initially by Mizoram Director General of Police, Anil Shukla, with subsequent reports raising the toll to ten.
In the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, located approximately 50 miles southwest of Des Moines, a destructive storm unleashed a tornado shortly before 5 pm, causing extensive damage to numerous homes and structures, according to Iowa State Patrol spokesperson Sgt Alex Dinkla.
Confirming the fatalities, the police stated that the deceased were identified as three-year-old Farzana, four-year-old Aqsa, five-year-old Rukhsana, eight-year-old Muskan, and their 34-year-old mother Muskan.
Though police had not publicly confirmed the fatalities, a news conference has been scheduled at 5:40 pm (ET) to shed light on the event. The incident unfolded at a residence on Galway Drive in Charlotte, where multiple officers were shot Monday afternoon, as per authorities.
The report claimed that these targeted attacks have resulted in a total of 56 terror incidents, resulting in 77 fatalities and 67 injuries throughout March.
At least 92 per cent of all fatalities and 86 per cent of the attacks in Pakistan, including those related to terrorism and security forces operations, were recorded in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in the first quarter of 2024, reported Geo News.
A vehicle from Tamil Nadu overturned on Tuesday resulting in three fatalities and leaving fourteen others injured in the Adimali area of Kerala, a police official said.
A road accident took place in Arakuloya mandal, a human settlement in the Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) district of Andhra Pradesh where four bikes collided with each other resulting in four fatalities, a police official said.