QUETTA Death toll in Sunday's deadly suicide attack near residence of Balochistan Police chief in Quetta has reached eight as one of the 97 wounded succumbed to his injuries at a military hospital here on Monday. Seven people were killed and 97 wounded late Sunday ...

DHAKA - The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 on Sunday after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck. Senior government official Zillur Chowdhury told AFP that the death toll in one of the world's ...

LAHORE - The death toll of LDA Plaza inferno swelled to 28 on Friday, 24 hours after the blaze tore through the seventh floor of the 13-strorey building on Edgerton Road in the heart of Lahore. Since most of bodies were decomposed, these were sent to a lab for DNA identification, police sources ...

DHAKA : Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, ...

DHAKA : The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster passed 800 on Wednesday as rescuers pulled dozens more bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed outside Dhaka last month. "The death toll now stands at 803" with 790 bodies recovered from the wreckage and 13 ...

  DHAKA :Bangladeshon Monday announced a new high-level panel to inspect thousands of garment factories for building flaws as the death toll from the nation's worst industrial disaster surpassed 660. The move comes days afterBangladeshagreed with the International Labour Organisation to give ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died at a local hospital on Saturday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 42.  Umaira, seven months, breathed her last at Children’s Hospital. Demand Pakistan Pediatrics Association Punjab chapter president Dr Syed Masood Saeed has said that the ...

Death toll due to measles in Lahore mounted to 54 as another innocent child died of the epidemic here on Monday.The 14-month child gave up to the outbreak at Children’s Hospital of the provincial capital. The deceased belonged to the Rana Town area of the city.The situation seems to have gone ...

The deadly measles disease has brought a wave of trouble across the province as the death toll reached over 45.On Tuesday, at least two more children were died of measles in Lahore.The deceased including about 2-year-old Jannat and a six- month Abdullah belonged to Lahore and were undergoing ...

DAMASCUS - Insurgents fired mortar rounds at one of President Bashar al-Assad's palaces in the Syrian capital on Tuesday, as the death toll mounted from a devastating missile strike on second city Aleppo.The shelling, which was claimed by the rebel Free Syrian Army, came as dozens of Russians left ...

The death toll in a wave of bombings and other attacks across Iraq has risen to 50, police and hospital sources said. The early-morning attacks on Thursday were conducted against mainly Shi'ite targets in Baghdad and several other towns and cities. Car bombs struck across Baghdad, in the latest ...

Death toll in mysterious medicine reaction has climbed to 119 in the past three weeks as two more patients died on Monday.According to details, Rahat, 60, and Yaseen, 70, who were under treatment in Service Hospital Lahore, breathed their last due to lack of platelets and count of white blood cells ...

More than hundred cardiac patients have died after contaminated drugs intake provided by Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and dozens more are in a critical condition in the hospitals. According to sources, the reports of the samples sent to CDL and NIH laboratories have been received by the ...

The number of people killed by contaminated heart medicines in Punjab reached 106 as another patient lost his life at Mayo Hospital in Lahore on Friday. The victim was identified as Muhammad Gulab.On the other hand, Punjab government has launched a house-to-house campaign to retrieve free medicine ...

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday said that death toll due to medicines’ reaction in Punjab had reached 65. In an investigation report regarding the death caused by spurious medicines, the FIA said that expiry and manufacturing dates were not mentioned on the medicines ...

The death toll from the powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey has risen to 264, Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin told local media Monday. Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay earlier put the death toll at 239 and the number of the injured at some 1,300. Speaking at a televised news ...

The death toll of a bomb blast at Edigah on Wednesday has risen to 12 on Thursday as one more person and a child, died from injuries at Combined Military Hospital (CMH). A police official told media that the deceased had sustained severe injuries and were admitted to the intensive care unit at CMH. ...

Nine more people fell prey to violence and torture in Karachi on Monday including four employees of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) pushing the toll to 91 in six days. The fresh firing incident took place in the Garden area where the armed men opened fire at the KWSB office that killed four ...

The confirmed death toll from the sunken cruise vessel Bulgaria has risen to 120 people, after the divers discovered one more body on the riverboat, the Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. "Another body has been discovered. Therefore, the confirmed death toll has risen to 120," the ministry said. ...

Four more devotees of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Urs drowned in Arral Wah Canal raising the death toll to 27. According to Edhi sources four devotees drowned in the canal on Saturday while taking bath to defeat the scorching heat. The bodies of the deceased stated to be hailing for different areas of ...

The death toll from severe storms that punished five Southern U.S. states jumped to a staggering 193 Thursday after Alabama canvassed its hard-hit counties for a new tally of lives lost. Alabama's state emergency management agency said it had confirmed 128 deaths, up from at least 61 earlier. "We ...

The death toll from last month's 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami in Japan has reached 12,690, while nearly 14,736 remain unaccounted for, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday citing data from police. The twin disaster that hit Japan on March 11 also triggered a number of explosions at the ...

The National Police Agency said Wednesday that the catastrophic earthquake and ensuing tsunami have left 9,301 people dead and 13,786 others unaccounted for in Japan by 09:00 local time (0500 PST). A 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific coastal areas of northeastern and eastern Japan on March ...

The death toll from floods and landslides in Brazil has risen to 806, as rescue workers continued to search for survivors, authorities said. The floods and landslides caused by heavy storms that hit southeastern Brazil on Jan. 11 forced more than 20,000 people to leave their homes, the government ...

The death toll caused by the storms since Jan. 11 in southeastern Brazil now stands at 772, the Brazilian Health and Civil Defense Ministry said. Among all the casualties in the State of Rio de Janeiro, 357 deaths are in its northern municipality Nova Friburgo, 323 in Teresopolis, 64 in Petropolis, ...

The death toll from mudslides and floods in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil has risen to 527, making it the country's worst-ever natural disaster. More bodies are expected to be found when the search resumes as rescuers and firefighters reach villages in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro cut off ...

An outbreak of cholera in the Caribbean state of Haiti has claimed the lives of some 1,250 people, the EFE news agency said on Monday. About 29,860 people have been hospitalized since the disease broke out in the Caribbean country in late October. Haiti is still struggling to cope with the ...

The death toll in a powerful tsunami off the western coast of Indonesia has increased to 311, with 378 people missing, the Detik.com news portal said, citing data from the local governor. The number of the dead previously stood at 272 people. "311 people died, 378 are missing," Irwan Prayitno was ...

At least 12 people have been killed and several others got injured in the firing of unidentified persons in Sher Shah Kabari Market, Karachi, on Tuesday and the death toll in the firing and targeted killings incidents have reached to 59. The armed attackers entered Sher Shah Kabari Market and ...

More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official warned Wednesday. This year's floods, which have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage already, have exacted the highest death toll since ...