MEXICO CITY : At least 13 inmates were killed and 87 others injured in a prison riot in the state of San Luis Potosi, north of Mexico City, said state governor Fernando Toranzo. Of those injured, at least 22 were hospitalized with serious injuries, Toranzo said in a late Saturday press conference. ...

  ILIGAN, Philippines: Gunmen killed 13 people in an ambush on a Philippine mayor, police said Friday, in the deadliest of a string of violent incidents that have marred campaigning for May elections. The attackers opened fire on a truck carrying Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan and his supporters ...

Bomb attacks wounded 17 people in Quetta on Wednesday and targeted an election candidate in the run-up to historic general elections in the nuclear-armed country, police said.The first attack wounded 13 people near a mosque and a private hospital in Quetta, police said.The bicycle bomb exploded in ...

lahore After finalisation of candidates by the PTI, PML-N, PPP and JI, Lahore is expected to witness dual, triangular and quadrilateral electoral contests in 13 National Assembly constituencies on May 11. According to the political standing of the candidates of the four parties of Lahore, only ...

lahore The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Wednesday cleared names for 13 National Assembly and 25 Punjab Assembly seats of Lahore. Of the 13 candidates for national seats, seven are repeat election contestants. On the other hand, at least nine candidates, who won from their constituencies in ...

KARACHI – Special vigilance teams setup by the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) have caught 13 candidates over cheating in the paper of Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Part-II, Science Group, Annual Examinations 2013 held in various examination centers.The BSEK held Physics ...

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VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia (AFP) - A man shot dead 13 relatives and neighbours, including a two-year-old child, in a tiny Serbian village on Tuesday, in the country’s worst killing spree in two decades. The man shot most of his victims in the head as they were sleeping before he shot and wounded ...

PESHAWAR  - Electioneering is picking up momentum in Nowshera as the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP-P), Awami National Party (ANP) and Pakistan Tahrik-e-Insaf (PTI) have fielded senior politicians from Khattak tribe to win elections from the NA-5 Nowshera-I ...

A man shot dead 13 relatives and neighbours, including a two-year-old child, in a tiny Serbian village on Tuesday, in the country's worst killing spree in two decades.The man shot most of his victims in the head as they were sleeping before he shot and wounded himself, police said. The motive for ...

At least 13 people were killed in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha when the sides of a quarry caved in, a local official said Tuesday."There are 13 dead but rescuers managed to save two people," said Mulongo Magessa, governor of Arusha province, of the accident that took place on Monday, days ...

A fire blamed on an electrical fault killed 13 teenage boys at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city Tuesday, police and witnesses said, raising fears of a further eruption of tensions after a wave of religious unrest.Police and soldiers flanked the scorched blue mosque and religious school in ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY – Thirteen militants and a security official were killed and three others wounded in a bombing and clashes between militants and security forces in upper Orakzai Agency on Thursday. Reports said a security forces convoy was on its way when it got hit by a bomb planted in ...

ORAKZAI AGENCY - At least 13 suspected militants were killed and 16 others injured when jet fighters hit their hideouts at Mamonzai in Orakzai Agency on Monday.According to details, the jet fighters, backed by the security forces, pounded militants’ positions in Argheljo, Mir Qalamkhel, ...

ISLAMABAD – Islamabad Police on Sunday arrested 13 criminals and recovered 635 bottles of wines, two kilograms heroin, mobile phone, car, four pistols, ammunition, and other stolen items from their possession.According to a spokesman of Islamabad Police, on the directives of Inspector General ...

LAHORE – The menace of measles continued to haunt Lahorites with an increase as 13 more patients were admitted to different hospitals in the City on Sunday, taking the overall tally till today to 160. Spokesman of Health Department Punjab has exhorted parents to ensure vaccination of children ...

TOBA TEK SINGH/ MANDI BAHAUDDIN/SARGODHA/SHEIKHUPURA /MULTAN - At least 13 persons including two women were killed while 11 others including a woman sustained injuries in separate incidents of violence and road accidents here in different districts of Punjab over the past 24 hours.According to ...

Thirteen children were injured when fire broke out in a private school located in Nothia area of Peshawar Thursday morning.According to sources, fire started to engulf the classrooms of a private school due to short circuit that occurred in a mobile tower fixed within the school boundary. As a ...

MANILA  - Police in the Philippines killed 13 members of a criminal gang in a shootout on Sunday, the third violent incident within days amid widespread calls for stricter gun controls. The battle erupted after gunmen in two vehicles tried to smash through a police checkpoint near the town of ...

YANGON (AFP) - About 13,000 boat people, including many stateless Rohingya Muslims, fled Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh in 2012 with hundreds dying during the perilous sea voyage, the UN said Friday.A wave of deadly sectarian violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine has triggered ...

KARACHI   - The Provincial Dengue Surveillance has confirmed that as many as 13 new cases of dengue fever have been reported in the City during the last 24 hours. According to the report of the cell, issued on Friday, the new cases have taken the figures to 543 in the province, out of these ...

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD – The ongoing spate of violence in Karachi left another 13 people dead on Sunday as province’s top cop believed that a third force was behind this new wave of violence in the country’s commercial capital.A father and his two sons were among the unfortunate ones ...

A powerful earthquake which hit Myanmar Sunday killed at least 13 people, injured dozens and sparked panic in the central city of Mandalay, residents and aid workers said.The shallow 6.8-magnitude quake struck in a rural area 116 kilometres (72 miles) north of Mandalay followed by a series of ...

KARACHI - As many as thirteen people were gunned down in separate acts of violence during Eid holidays. In first incident, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan killed one of its own operatives in Kanwari Colony over the suspicion that he might have aided police raids and targeted operations against the ...

JUST when you thought it was safe to go out of the house, Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry has officially announced their awesome boardable mecha, the KURATS, is now available for purchase. And it costs only $1.35 million.I know it sounds like a lot of money, but we’re talking about ...

A car bomb exploded outside a police station in a Christian quarter of Damascus on Sunday, killing 13 people, the official SANA news agency said, while a similar attack struck Syria's second city of Aleppo."An explosive device planted under a car in Bab Tuma exploded, killing 13 people and wounding ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Seven members of the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), including a commander, were killed in a bomb blast at Zekhakhel area of tehsil Landikotal in Khyber Agency on Tuesday. The deceased commander was named as Khan Muhammad. However, the six others could not be identified till filing of this ...

QUETTA  - Thirteen baby girls have been subjected to vanni tradition to settle a murder issue in district Dera Bugti. A ‘private Jirga’ held under the auspices of Baloch parliamentarian Mir Tariq Masoori Bugti finalised a 5-month old murder issue. It was also participated by tribal ...

KHARTOUM  - Thirteen Sudanese military personnel died and nine others were injured when their transport plane crashed west of Khartoum Sunday on its way to conflict-plagued Darfur, state media reported."Thirteen were killed instantly, and nine were taken to hospital," Sawarmi Khaled Saad, the ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad police have nabbed at least 13 criminals from different areas of the city and recovered 140-gram drugs, 10 bottles of liquor and two pistols from them.  Ramna police, on the complaint of citizens, raided a house in G-11/4 and arrested five boys and five girls who were ...