Quicktakes — Floods in UP claim 11

LUCKNOW: Eleven people, including a child, were killed in incidents of house collapse and drowning as rains lashed most parts of Uttar Prad...

LUCKNOW: Eleven people, including a child, were killed in incidents of house collapse and drowning as rains lashed most parts of Uttar Pradesh during the last 48 hours. Four persons died in Jaunpur and Sultanpur districts when their houses collapsed following heavy rains, while one person drowned in Ambedkar Nagar, reports said.

Several low lying areas were under knee-deep water and at least 50 villages faced the fury of floods. While major rivers, including the Ganga and Yamuna, were in spate, rivers Gharra and Rapti maintained rising trend but were flowing well below the danger level.

Road link between Bareilly and Aonla was also disrupted due to heavy rains while a number of kutcha houses collapsed in Bareilly district.

Bangla flood toll

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DHAKA: Army personnel and rescue officials today started ferrying supplies to the thousands of people stranded in submerged villages as flash floods affected nearly one third of Bangladesh taking the death toll to 57, officials said.

Local officials fear the death toll might go up as at least 19 people were feared drowned when a boat capsized on Saturday in swollen Sangu river at Ruma Thana. Meanwhile, many other parts of the country continued to reel under torrential rains and some other areas experienced flood like situations.

5 scribes shot at

HEBRON: Israeli troops wounded 14 Palestinians including five journalists during clashes today across an invisible line dividing the volatile West Bank town of Hebron, witnesses said.

Palestinians on the PLO-ruled side of the West Bank city hurled stones and petrol bombs at soldiers across the street in the Israeli-occupied part of the city.

Taliban execution

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ISLAMABAD: Afghan opposition forces have executed 10 Taliban prisoners held in northern Afghanistan, the private Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported today quoting a Taliban spokesman Wakil Ahmed.

The troops grabbed a group of 11 Taliban prisoners from the central jail in Mazar-I-Sharif on July 3, drove them to nearby Dashte Arseen desert and shot them, AIP said.

Foresters abducted

BANGALORE: After a long lull, dreaded forest bandit Veerappan’s gang has abducted nine Karnataka forest department officials and held them hostage in the jungles of the state’s Chamarj Nagar-Kollegal region. Veerapan’s gang have kidnapped a forester, two guards and six watchers.