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الأربعاء، 15 فبراير 2012

Lincoln Tribune

Reports: Prison fire in central Honduras kills more than 100
Road accident in northern India kills 17 workers
Cyclone Giovanna kills at least five in Madagascar
Eighth death reported in wave of teen suicides in Russia
Iranian attacker wounded in Bangkok blasts

Reports: Prison fire in central Honduras kills more than 100

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:35 AM PST

COMAYAGUA, HONDURAS (BNO NEWS) -- More than 100 people are believed to have died after a fire broke out at a prison in central Honduras, local and regional media quoted fire officials as saying. Dozens more have been injured.

The incident began at around 10:50 p.m. local time when a riot broke out at a prison in Comayagua, the capital of the province which carries the same name. Between 500 and 800 inmates were kept at the prison, many of whom were unable to escape when a fire broke out.

The Spanish EFE news agency quoted Fire Department spokesman Josué García as saying that more than 100 people are believed to have been killed as a result of severe burns and asphyxiation. "There are many bodies piled up inside the modules of people who tried to escape the fire but couldn't," he was quoted as saying.

The La Tribuna newspaper also quoted a fire department official who said more than 100 people died in their cells, but gave no exact figure. In addition to those killed, more than 30 inmates have been taken to hospitals across Comayagua to be treated for burn and smoke injuries.

Road accident in northern India kills 17 workers

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:51 AM PST

NEW DELHI, INDIA (BNO NEWS) -- Seventeen people were killed on early Tuesday afternoon when their truck plunged down a gorge in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. Two others survived the accident.

The accident happened at around 12:45 p.m. local time when the vehicle skidded off an icy road and fell down a 200 feet (61 meters) deep gorge in Kinnaur district. The seventeen victims, who were involved in road construction, died at the scene of the accident, according to the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS).

"Since it was snowing heavily in Pooh, the laborers were sent back to their base camp in Spillo. When they were returning, their vehicle met with an accident at 12.45 p.m.," Superintendent of Police Veena Bharti told IANS. Two survivors were admitted to a nearby hospital.

The victims all worked for the General Engineering Reserve Force, a wing of the Border Roads Organization which maintains the roads passing through rugged Himalayan ranges. They had left Spillo for the town of Pooh for work.

The entire Kinnaur district, one of the most remote places in the state, has been experiencing heavy snowfall this week.

India, the world's second most populous nation, is often the scene of deadly road accidents, many of which are attributed to reckless driving, aging vehicles and overloading. In new figures released in 2010, India overtook China to top the world in road fatalities.

According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, approximately 120,000 people are killed in road accidents in India each year. Deaths as the result of road accidents account for up to 40 percent of the country's deaths due to unnatural causes.

Cyclone Giovanna kills at least five in Madagascar

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:10 AM PST

ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR (BNO NEWS) -- At least five people were killed on Tuesday when Intense Tropical Cyclone Giovanna made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar, local media reported on Wednesday. Hundreds of homes were damaged.

The tropical cyclone made landfall just south of the port of Toamasina at around 1 a.m. local time on Tuesday, bringing torrential rains and winds of up to 180 kilometers (112 miles) per hour. Although the Category 4 cyclone weakened as it crossed the island country, it caused widespread damage.

The capital Antananarivo, which is usually spared from intense tropical cyclones, was without electricity, water and telephone services on Tuesday. Many roads were closed, homes were damaged and firefighters reported two people, one of them a baby, drowned in the capital.

Fatalities were also reported in other parts of the country, according to the Madagascar-Tribune newspaper. Two people were killed when a tree fell on their house in the city of Brickaville while a landslide buried a house in Moramanga, killing at least one person.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the storm caused significant damage to public infrastructure across the country and warned Madagascar already faced high malnutrition rates, particularly in children. There is also a low level of access to fresh water and decent sanitation.

As of Wednesday morning, the center of Giovanna was located just off the western coast of Madagascar, or about 250 nautical miles (463 kilometers) west-southwest of Antananarivo. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to 46 miles (74 kilometers) per hour with gusts of up to 57 miles (92 kilometers) per hour, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC).

Madagascar, which is located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa, is frequently faced with cyclones and tropical storms in the early months of the year. Last year, Cyclone Bingiza killed at least 14 people and destroyed almost 6,000 homes.

Eighth death reported in wave of teen suicides in Russia

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:19 AM PST

MOSCOW, RUSSIA (BNO NEWS) -- A teenage boy committed suicide in southwest Russia late last week, making it the eighth death in a series of teen suicides throughout Russia in the past week, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Authorities in the Russian federal subject of Krasnodar Krai reported that a 13-year-old boy hanged himself on Saturday, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Tuesday. No other details about the circumstances of the death were immediately released.

The wave of teen suicides began on February 7 when two teenage girls, identified as 12-year-old Yelizaveta Petsylya and 14-year-old Anastasia Korolyova, jumped out of the window of an apartment building in Moscow as they held hands. The girls reportedly feared punishment after truanting from school for about two weeks.

The next day, on February 8, a 15-year-old boy jumped out of the window of an apartment building in Moscow after, according to investigators, a family quarrel. Few other details were released about the death.

Then on Thursday last week, a teenager hanged himself in the village of Iglina in Bashkortostan, reportedly due to relationship problems. In addition, a 12-year-old resident of the Krasnoyarsk region was found hanged in his apartment while a seventh grader of the Tambov region also hanged himself.

On Saturday, a ninth-grade girl jumped from a window in the Perovo region of Moscow.

Russia's teen suicide rate is the sixth highest in the world and the highest in Europe. The Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov says about 4,000 suicide attempts are committed by teenagers in Russia annually and in about 1,500 cases the teenager dies.

According to UNICEF, the level of adolescent depression in Russia is hovering at about 20 percent, while in Western countries it does not exceed 5 percent. Statistics show that 45 percent of girls and 27 percent of young men in Russia have had thoughts of suicide.

Iranian attacker wounded in Bangkok blasts

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:03 AM PST

BANGKOK, THAILAND (BNO NEWS) -- Five people were injured on Tuesday, including the suspected attacker, when three explosions rocked the Thai capital of Bangkok, police said. Israel believes the Iran is behind the attack.

The incident began when a bomb went off inside a rented house in Bangkok, causing several Iranian men to flee. One of the men, identified by local media outlets as Iranian national Saeid Moradi, then threw a bomb at a taxi after it refused to stop for him, injuring the driver.

As police officers responded to the explosions, Moradi threw another explosive device which was aimed at police but bounced off on a tree, blowing his legs off. First responders rushed the Iranian national to a nearby hospital where he was placed under arrest.

Government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said police reported that the house was being used to make bombs and a cache of C4 explosives and remote control detonating devices were uncovered. Another man was later arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport, the Bangkok Post reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the attempted bombing proves that Iran and its proxies continue to operate using terror methods. "Iran and Hezbollah are relentless terror elements who pose a danger to the stability of the region and the world," Barak said in a statement as quoted by the Haaretz newspaper.

Tuesday's blasts came a day after a bomb hit an Israeli diplomatic car in the Indian capital of New Delhi, injuring one embassy staff member, a local employee and two civilians. Another bomb was planted in a car in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi but failed to explode.

The Iranian government has denied involvement in the New Delhi, Tbilisi and Bangkok bombs.

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الأربعاء، 15 فبراير 2012

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