5 SDead, 30 Injured in Three Explosions Shake Assam India

GUWAHATI: Three blasts rocked Nalbari district in Lower Assam on Sunday morning, in which five persons have reportedly been killed while another 30 have been injured.

The blasts took place at around 10:15 hours (local time) outside a police station in Nalbari district, police said. The bombs were planted on a parked bicycle, a police official added.

Police suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to have carried out the explosions.

Nalbari district is about 70 km west of Assam’s main city of Guwahati.

Two Policemen Killed in Suicide Attack Bunnu

MIRANSHAH: A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a police station in Bakakhel area of Bannu on Friday, killing two policemen and trapping others under the rubble, police said.

“The bomber rammed the car into the police station,” Bannu police chief Iqbal Marwad told AFP from the garrison town.

“There are two policemen dead and 22 injured. The number of casualties is likely to rise because the injured are being pulled out from the rubble of the police station,” he added.

“It appears to be a suicide attack, Bakakhel police station building has been damaged very badly, two policemen are dead and 22 others are injured,” Bannu local police official Hameed Khan told AFP.

Pakistani Brigadier Moin Haider, Driver Martyred In Islamabad Ambush

ISLAMABAD : A Pakistani army brigadier and his driver were killed on Thursday when gunmen attacked his car as he was on his way to work, police said.

Brigadier Moin Haider and his driver were killed and a guard was wounded, said city police official Tahir Alam.

15 Killed In Train Accident in India

NEW DELHI: An express train ploughed into the back of another in northern India early Wednesday, killing up to 15 people and leaving up to 50 trapped in the wreckage, television channels reported.

The local channel, quoting a local senior superintendent of police, said 15 bodies had been pulled from the site of the crash on tracks outside the town of Mathura, 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of New Delhi.

Vijay Kumar, another senior police official in the nearby town of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, told the channel that the crash happened at 5:30 am local time (0000 GMT), but declined to give figures for dead or injured.

He said the Goa Express had run into the back of a stationary train outside Mathura station. Rescuers were using mechanical cutters to cut through the bars on the windows of the badly crushed last carriage of the stationary train to reach people feared trapped inside. The news channel put the death toll at 10-12, with 40-50 feared trapped.

FIA Building Attack Killed 5 People Including 3 Police, Senior Officer

LAHORE : Five people including three police officers were killed in an attack Thursday on the police investigation building in Lahore, a police official said.

Gunmen stormed two police training centres and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), with senior Lahore police official Haider Ashraf telling a local television channel that the FIA had been cleared of rebels.

“They (police) have taken control — the building has been cleared. The operation is complete. There were five dead total… three of them are police officials,” said Ashraf.

He said that one of the dead was a civilian, describing the fifth fatality as “unidentified.”

He did not comment on the situation at the two training centres.