13 of a family killed in Pak road accident
Lahore, May 27: Thirteen members of a family, including women and children, were killed and nine others sustained injuries in a road accident in Pakistan’s Punjab province, authorities said on Monday. The accident took place on Sunday in Muzaffarghar district, some 350 km from Lahore, when a passenger van collided with a truck. According to emergency service Rescue 1122, the accident was so fatal that several people died on the spot. (PTI)
Nearly 1,400 students escape school building engulfed by fire
Peshawar, May 27: Nearly 1,400 girl students had a lucky escape on Monday when they were safely evacuated from a school building that was engulfed by a massive fire in a remote mountainous region of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to a media report. Geo News spoke to a rescue official who said the fire swept through the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Haripur district’s Sirikot village while hundreds of students were inside. Firefighters along with the local residents began putting off the blaze, he said. (PTI)
10 killed as bus crashes into vehicles
Ankara, May 27: A passenger bus crashed into vehicles on a highway in southern Turkiye, killing at least 10 people and leaving 39 others injured, officials said Monday. The accident occurred in the province of Mersin late on Sunday, when the bus veered into the opposite lane in heavy rain and crashed into two cars. A truck later slammed into all three vehicles, Gov. Ali Hamza Pehlivan told reporters. The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals and at least eight of them were in serious condition, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. (AP)
Russian spy in German army gets jail
Dusseldorf, May 27: A 54-year-old German army officer who confessed to spying for Russia has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a court in Dusseldorf. The man, a captain, had acknowledged betraying sensitive military information to the Russian secret services. He also joined the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party around the same time he offered himself up to Russian intelligence. Prosecutors accused him of serving as an agent for a hostile, ruthlessly aggressive foreign power. German police officers arrested the man in Koblenz on August 9, and he has been held in custody since then. (IANS)
China backs Pak’s probe into militant attacks
Beijing, May 27: China on Monday voiced its support for Pakistan’s investigation into the recent suicide attack targeting Chinese personnel at a hydroelectric dam in that country but refrained from holding Afghanistan’s Taliban interim government responsible for sheltering the militants, as alleged by Islamabad. Five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver were killed when an explosives-packed vehicle rammed into their bus in the troubled province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in March. (PTI)