Islamabad: Twenty-three people were killed Tuesday when US drones attacked militant positions in northwest Pakistan, a media report said.
The drone strikes took place in the North and South Waziristan regions, Geo TV reported.
On Monday, 25 people were killed when US drones targeted a vehicle and a house in the Dattakhel area near the Afghan border.
10 die in bus fire
Ten people were killed Tuesday when a passenger bus caught fire after one of its fuel gas cylinders exploded on a highway in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi district, a media report said.
The accident occurred on the Islamabad express highway. The injured were shifted to various hospitals, Geo TV reported.
The bus was fitted with five fuel gas cylinders and was on its way from Rawalpindi city to Kallar Syedan town. (IANS)
12 die in China fire
Beijing: Twelve people died on Tuesday in a warehouse fire in central China, Xinhua reported.
The fire broke out at 9 a.m. on the second-floor of the multi-storeyed warehouse in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province.
A probe has been launched, an official said. (IANS)
Dutch tourist escapes rape bid in Nepal tourist hub
Kathmandu: A 24-year-old Dutch tourist has filed a complaint with police after surviving a rape bid Monday by a knife-wielding Nepali teen in her own hotel room located in Kathmandu’s tourist hub Thamel.
Early on Monday morning, the staff at the Potala Guest House in Thamel and a nearby police patrol were alerted by screams coming out of the room of Leude Oostveen, a Dutch tourist who had checked in two days earlier.
They caught a 17-year-old Nepali, Shekhar Tripathi, who was carrying a knife.
According to police, the teen worked as a waiter in a pub adjoining the hotel. He had broken into the Dutch woman’s room through the window around 4 a.m., brandishing a knife and threatening to kill her if she resisted him. There has been an alarming spurt in rapes and gangrapes followed by murder committed by teenagers.
The incident comes less than four months after an American tourist filed a police complaint against the owner of the hotel where she was staying in the same Thamel area, alleging she was raped.(IANS)