Two explosions minutes apart rocked a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing a child and wounding at least 23 other people.
The young girl was killed and at least 14 other people were wounded in the first blast in front of a bank in southern Lashkar Gah city, said Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for the governor in Helmand province.
Five people, including an Afghan soldier, were injured in the second explosion near a high school, he said.
“Once again, the militants targeted civilians,” Mr Ahmadi said.
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5 children suffocate in car in Pak
Lahore : Five children suffocated in a village in eastern Pakistan after locking themselves in a parked car, the police said on Sunday.
The incident took place in Wahndu village, in Gujranwala district, around 65 kilometres north of Lahore on Saturday afternoon, police officer Mohammed Afzal said.
The family was taking an afternoon nap in their house when the five children, aged between two and six years old, sneaked into their uncle’s car and locked themselves in, Mr Afzal said. —AFP
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Thai: Parents shot in front of daughter
Pattani : A two-year-old girl was injured in a shooting that killed both her parents in the latest bout of violence to hit Thailand’s restive south, the police said on Sunday.
The attack — which targeted a former ranger driving with his wife and daughter in Pattani’s Muang district on Saturday — came just minutes after a grenade attack on a mosque in Sai Buri that wounded two nine-year-old boys.
Around one person a day has been killed in recent weeks. —AFP
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Saudi bus crash kills 10 Pak pilgrims
Dubai : Ten Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 23 others were injured when their bus crashed near Jeddah city in Saudi Arabia.
The accident occurred on Saturday near Jeddah on the road linking the holy cities of Makkah and Medina, the Saudi Gazette reported on Sunday.
The passengers were on an Umrah or a smaller pilgrimage, and the bus overturned some five kilometres from Wadi Qadid, north of Jeddah. The accident left 10 persons dead and 23 injured. —PTI
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2 die while charging cellphones
Kathmandu : Two persons died when short circuit occurred while they were charging their mobile phones in Nepal’s Sindhupalchok district.
The incident took place on Friday, the police said.
Meanwhile in a separate incident, a girl was killed in Pokhara when her mobile exploded and a boy was electrocuted while talking on his cellphone while it was being charged, at Chitwan, central Nepal. —PTI