Slum fire kills 21 in Bangladesh's Chittagong
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At least 21 people were killed in a fire that raged through a slum district of Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong early on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.
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DHAKA: Angry Opposition protestors set fire to a passenger train and clashed with police in southern Bangladesh on Sunday amid general strikes in several cities, to protest the series of explosions on an Awami league rally that killed 18 people and
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ISLAMABAD: Twenty-five people were arrested in raids at Afghan slums on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday and illegal weapons were seized from them, police said.
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GUWAHATI: In stepped up violence, six people, including two BSF men, were killed and 51 others injured in three blasts triggered by the Ulfa in three districts of Assam since Wednesday night.
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Officials in Buenos Aires say at least 169 people are dead and more than 375 injured after a fire swept through a crowded nightclub in the Argentine capital.
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At least 62 people were killed and many others were injured Monday in mudslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in a hilly port city in southeastern Bangladesh, rescue officials and witnesses said.
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At least three people were killed and another 20 have been buried after a rubbish dump collapsed on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the government said.
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Thieves stealing fuel from a pipeline in Nigeria set it ablaze as they fled from police, and at least 20 people died in the fire, authorities said Thursday.
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The Bangladesh government on Tuesday ordered a probe into a fire at a multi-storey office block as the death toll climbed to four, an official said.
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The toll from an earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra island last week has risen to 21 dead and 88 injured, while more than 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged, officials said on Saturday.
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A fire in a Russian workers' hostel  killed at least 19 people and may have injured many more, the  Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
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At least 22 people are killed in mudslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the Bangladeshi port town of Chittagong.
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At least 22 people were killed and several missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains buried hillside homes in Bangladesh's Chittagong port city on Monday, police and witnesses said.
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Gunmen killed five people in a Sao Paulo slum Sunday in what police suspect was a drug-related crime, bringing to 21 the death toll from attacks this month in South America's biggest city.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Overnight raids by U.S. and Iraqi  forces on the rebel-held Iraqi city of Samarra killed at least  21 people, a hospital official said on Friday.
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Twenty-six people died early Friday when a fire raced through a home for the elderly and disabled in western Latvia, rescuers said.Comment
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Twenty people were killed and many others injured in a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb attack on a crowded bus in southwest Sri Lanka, officials said.