Pakistan: 26 killed as bus overturns on Motorway

ISLAMABAD, (APP): At least 26 persons were killed and 59 others injured when their bus overturned on Lahore-Islamabad Motorway on Monday evening.

According to Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Zahid Saeed, the ill-fated bus carrying students from the Faisalabad’s Millat Grammar School was returning to Faisalabad from Kallar Kahar after a field trip of salt mines when it overturned.

He said over 100 children, three teachers, principal and a servant were on board the bus at the time of accident.

The injured were rushed to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) Rawalpindi, DHQ Chakwal and Fauji Foundation Hospital.


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Libya: 7 civilians killed by Nato air raid on Tripoli

Libyan Government sources said 7 civilians were killed in a Nato airstrike on Tripoli Sunday.

A number of journalists were taken by government officials to a residential area in the Arada district (East Tripoli) where they saw a dead body pulled from the rubble of a building that seemed to be under construction.

"There was intentional and deliberate targeting of the civilian houses," deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim told reporters at the site.

"This is another sign of the brutality of the West."

Afghanistan: 3 civilians killed, 11 injured in suicide bombing

KABUL, (Xinhua): Three civilians were killed and 11 injured when a suicide car bomb went off in Kunduz province 250 km north of capital city of Kabul on Sunday, interior ministry said.

"Today at around 9:45 a.m. (local time), a suicide bomber blew his explosive-laden car next to a coalition force military convoy running in airport road in provincial capital Kunduz city. As a result, three civilians were killed and 11 other civilians wounded, " said a statement issued by interior ministry here.