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US military craft crashes off Japanese island
Tokyo, Nov 29: A US Osprey military transport aircraft carrying eight people crashed off Japan’s southwestern island of Yakushima in Kagoshima prefecture on Wednesday, local media reported. The Japan Coast Guard received an emergency call about the crash at 2.47 p.m. after the Osprey departed from the Iwakuni US base in the Yamaguchi heading for the Kadena base in Okinawa, public broadcaster NHK said, citing local authorities. The aircraft disappeared from radar at 2.40 p.m., Xinhua news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying. Japan Coast Guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa said the coast guard has dispatched patrol boats and aircraft to the site for search and rescue operations but it had no further details of the crash, including the safety of those onboard. In August, a US Osprey crashed off the coast of northern Australia, killing three crew members. Weather officials said the skies over the Yakushima area were mostly clear during the day, and the wind speed at 2.30 p.m. was 6.84 km per hour. No advisories or warnings were issued at the time. (IANS)

 

NYC subway shooting leaves two injured
New York, Nov 29: A teenage boy and a man were shot and injured in a moving subway train in New York City, local media reported. The incident took place at a Manhattan-bound C train in Brooklyn at around 5.40 p.m. on Tuesday evening after a fight among straphangers which did not cause any large-scale panic among commuters, reports Xinhua news agency. However, the shooting resulted in inconvenience to passengers for around two hours while police investigated the scene. Both of the victims were in a stable condition and rushed to hospitals. But the gunman remains at large. New York recorded over 900 shooting incidents including 308 ones in Brooklyn as of November 8, according to the New York Police Department. In April 2022, a man named Frank James shot ten commuters on a subway in Brooklyn, which was widely reported and stoked fears of gun violence. (IANS)

 

Security forces kill 2 terrorists
in Pakistan
Islamabad, Nov 29: Pakistani security forces conducted an operation in the country’s southwestern Kalat district and killed two terrorists, said the military. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said on Tuesday in a statement that the security forces launched an intelligence-based operation in the Nagao mountains of Kalat, a district in the southwestern Balochistan province. The ISPR added that an intense exchange of fire took place between troops and the militants during the operation, which led to the killing of two terrorists. “The killed terrorists remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against security forces and target killing of innocent civilians,” said the military, adding that a big cache of arms, ammunition and explosives was recovered from the site. The military added that the forces had started a clearance operation in the area to eliminate any terrorists found in the area. (PTI)

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