SNIPPETS
SNIPPETS
Published: 12:00 am May 17, 2005
37 killed in mishap
NEW DELHI: Thirty-seven members of a wedding party were killed and another 25 injured on Tuesday when their bus crashed into a gorge in Uttaranchal, police said. — AFP
Four of family killed
RANCHI: Maoists on Tuesday attacked a Jharkhand village killing four members of a family in revenge for an earlier killing of one of its members by the villagers, police said. — HNS
B’desh ferry toll 56
GALACHIPA: At least 56 bodies have been recovered from the river where a crowded ferry sank during rough weather in southern Bangladesh, an official said on Tuesday. — AFP
3 killed in police raid
KARACHI: A police raid on the hideout of one of Pakistan’s most wanted criminals on Tuesday left three people dead and 20 wounded in an intense gun battle but failed to lead to the capture of the fugitive. — AFP.
Bodies found
SRINAGAR: Terror struck in J&K again on Tuesday with a school in Srinagar being attacked by an explosive device and the brutally murdered bodies of four abducted villagers being recovered from a forest near here. — HNS
Convicted monk dies
COLOMBO: A monk, Bellana Panniyaloka, who drank poison after becoming Lanka’s first Buddhist clergyman to be convicted of child abuse died at a hospital on Tuesday. — AP