Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 8
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan– The Afghan police have killed eight alleged kidnappers in a crackdown against outlaws in Mazar-i- Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Wednesday. “Units of police launched an operation against the hideout of a kidnapping gang in Khwaja Khairan locality,…
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed six terrorists in an operation in the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan military, said in a statement that the forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan district in the province. (Pakistan-Terrorists-Killing)
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CAIRO — The casualty toll of the train derailment on Tuesday night in Qalyub, an Egyptian city about 23 km north of the capital Cairo, has risen to four killed and 23 injured, the authorities said Wednesday.
All the wounded had been transferred to three national hospitals, 11 of whom were released after receiving necessary treatment, according to the Egyptian health ministry. (Egypt-Train Derailment-Casualties)
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — The Afghan police have killed eight alleged kidnappers in a crackdown against outlaws in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of northern Balkh province, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Wednesday.
“Units of police launched an operation against the hideout of a kidnapping gang in Khwaja Khairan locality, Police District 7 of Mazar-i-sharif city Wednesday morning, killing eight and discovered arms and ammunitions including three assault rifles, two pistols and three cars from the site of the operation,” Waziri told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Kidnappers-Arrest)
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SEOUL — At least three people were confirmed dead and 17 others injured as a truck hit a queue of people waiting to vote for an agricultural cooperative chief in southwestern South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday.
The 1-ton truck carrying fertilizer crashed into a group of about 20 people at around 10:30 a.m. local time at the parking lot of an agricultural cooperative building in Sunchang, some 240 km south of Seoul, who were waiting in line to cast their ballots for the election of a new cooperative leader. (South Korea-Truck Crash-Deaths) Enditem