According to iol.co.za, two foreigners were found murdered inside their shop in Manama Kgotleng village, Mogwase, on Thursday, North West police said. The two Bangladeshi men, aged 26 and 27, were discovered by residents who went to the shop in the morning, Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said. “Police found a hammer next to their bodies.” Read article
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According to news24.com, four of the six men who died in an accident at an Eskom site near Ladysmith were foreigners, Eskom said on Friday. “Of the six fatalities, four are foreign nationals and two are South Africans,” Eskom general manager Gerrie Bronkhorst said. He would not divulge their nationalities. Read article
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According to thehindu.com, two Nagapattinam fishermen are feared drowned off Qatar. Kaliaperumal (35) of Tsunami colony in Nagapattinam and Selvamani (25) of M.G.R.Nagar, Tharangambadi, were working as fishing labourers with a private firm in Qatar. According to information from the families, they were part of a 11-member crew of a boat which collided with another […]
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Reuters reports that the corpses of more than 80 migrants, most of them women and children who died of thirst, have been found in northern Niger after their vehicle broke down attempting to cross the Sahara Desert, military sources said on Thursday. The migrants had set off in two trucks from Niger’s northernmost mining town […]
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The New York Times reports that two Somali men killed in a bomb blast were believed to have been plotting an attack in Ethiopia when they accidentally blew themselves up, Redwan Hussein, Ethiopia’s minister of information, said on Monday. The explosion took place Sunday afternoon as thousands were gathering in the capital, Addis Ababa, to […]
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NBC News reports that a migrant boat capsized between Sicily and Tunisia on Friday and hundreds of people were in the sea, the Italian navy said, and the national news agency ANSA said corpses had been spotted. The incident came just over a week after at least 319 people drowned when a boat carrying Eritrean […]
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Al Jazeera reports that several people were killed in a mortar attack at an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq early Sunday morning, according to security and Iraqi government sources. Accounts differ about how many people died, and it was not immediately clear who fired the mortars. The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran said […]
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Reuters reports that insurgents attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s eastern capital on Saturday, killing nine people and reinforcing fears that a bloody regional power struggle will be played out in the country once most foreign troops leave. Twenty-three people were wounded when checkpoint guards stopped three attackers in a car as they approached the […]
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According to the Washington Post, Turkey’s state run Anatolia news agency says that at least 24 migrants have drowned after a boat capsized in the Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast. The Turkish Coast Guard responded to an SOS call from the speed boat’s captain early Wednesday. Video footage taken by Anatolia shows […]
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As reported by Yrd.com, a Bahrain-born banker who founded Malaysia’s fifth-largest bank was shot to death in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian police said Tuesday, fueling concerns about rising crime in the Southeast Asian country. Read Article
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