Dam Bursts in Pakistan; at Least 135 Dead
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Troops and rescue workers used fishing nets Saturday to pull bodies from floodwaters after a dam burst in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 135 people, officials said. Elsewhere in Pakistan, weeklong rains and avalanches claimed the lives of about 143 people, emergency officials said.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town ruined when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 54 were dead and hundreds missing, officials said yesterday.
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: Chinese engineers have stopped work on a dam project in a Pakistani tribal region over fears for their safety following the kidnapping of two colleagues by al-Qaida-linked abductors, an official said today.
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At least 42 people died and more than 150 were injured when heavy rains caused buildings in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to collapse, according to provincial health and police officials.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan, Feb. 12 -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town devastated when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 80 were dead and hundreds missing, an official said Saturday.
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Around 50,000 people are evacuated from eastern Comilla district after a dam bursts on a rain-swollen river.
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Local news stations said today that 134 were killed when two bombs exploded Thursday near a truck carrying the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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&quot;The toll from the explosions was 12 dead and 135 wounded,&quot; an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Friday. Earlier unofficial reports put the death toll from the explosions on Thursday evening as high as 35 people.
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Two explosions went off near a truck carrying Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader, who returned from exile today. Ms. Bhutto was unhurt, but at least 50 were reported killed.
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A rocket attack in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border has wounded at least five people and damaged several houses. Security officials in Bannu in the North West Frontier Province say two rockets
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A blast was heard in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses reported, and a television station said at least 4 people were killed.
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Rescue efforts are under way after a burst dam in Pakistan kills 70 amid widespread flooding across the country.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- A pair of nearly simultaneous explosions during rush hour early Tuesday killed at least 25 people and injured more than 60 others in the city of Rawalpindi, home to Pakistan's military.
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A flash flood triggered by torrential rain swept through six villages in Pakistan's storm-hit Baluchistan province killing 30 people and forcing more than 10,000 from their homes, a relief official said on Sunday.
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About 100 homes are evacuated in South Yorkshire as engineers say a dam could burst after torrential rain.
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Hundreds of people are believed to have died and many injured as heavy rains caused buildings in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to collapse, according to provincial health and police officials.
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A massive aid operation is continuing to bring food and supplies to tens of thousands made homeless in southwest Pakistan after a dam burst, killing at least 60 people and leaving hundreds missing.