Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Dr kills himself after Survivor death

Gerald Babin suffered a fatal heart attack on the first day of filming Koh Lanta, the French version of Survivor, in Cambodia. Picture: Supplied Source: news.com.au

THE doctor for the French version of hit reality TV show Survivor has killed himself in Cambodia, saying in a suicide note the media "sullied" his name after a contestant in his care died of a heart attack.

"In recent days my name has been sullied in the media," doctor Thierry Costa wrote in the note before committing suicide just over a week after the death of 25-year-old Gerald Babin on a remote Cambodian island.

Costa, 38, complained of "unfair accusations" against him in the note obtained from Media Medic, the subcontractor that provided the doctor for the hugely popular show Koh Lanta, a series by Adventure Line Productions (ALP).

Costa had been Koh Lanta's emergency physician for four seasons, ALP said in a statement, adding: "Everyone admired his great professionalism with the participants and the production staff."

Since Babin's death, French media outlets have questioned the production company’s treatment of the contestant, citing unnamed sources who claimed producers delayed the doctor's response time and interviewed Babin on camera despite the fact that he appeared ill.

Babin died of a heart attack on the first day of filming on the tropical island of Koh Rong on March 22, prompting French broadcaster TF1 to axe the show's 2013 season, its 16th.

It was the first death in any French reality TV program.

Costa said in his handwritten suicide note he was "sure of having treated Gerald in a respectable way, as a patient and not as a contestant".

He added: "Even though I regret this unhappy end, I acted in conformity with the Hippocratic Oath."

ALP said Costa administered emergency care to Babin when he complained of cramps during one of the challenges set for contestants before the contestant was airlifted to hospital in nearby Sihanoukville, where he died.

French authorities have opened a preliminary inquiry into "involuntary homicide" to determine the cause of death, although the Cambodian authorities have determined that Babin died of natural causes.

* Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467.
 

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Melb wall collapse kills two pedestrians

TWO people have been killed and a third seriously injured when a wall collapsed on pedestrians in a busy Melbourne street.

A man and a woman were walking past the vacant construction site when the wall fell and killed them, police say.

A second woman was injured and has been taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

View the original article here

Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Bomb kills five at railway station

POLICE said a bomb has exploded in a railway station in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

Police officer Qasim Salachi said at least 20 others were wounded in the bombing overnight at the station in Baluchistan province's Sibbi city.

Mr Salachi said the bomb went off just minutes after a train pulled into the station, as passengers were buying food and drinks.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Baluchistan has experienced decades of violence at the hands of separatists who demand a greater share of the province's natural resources. It is also believed to be a base for many Afghan Taliban militants.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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Snow kills 8 in Japan

HEAVY snow that fell in northern Japan over the weekend has killed eight people on Hokkaido island, including a family whose car became buried.

Kazuyo Miyashita, 40, her two daughters Misa, 17, and Sayo, 14, and her son Daiki, 11, died at a hospital on Saturday night of carbon-monoxide poisoning after their vehicle was buried in the snow, according to Kyodo news service.

Separately, Haruna Kitagawa, 23, froze to death after leaving her car, stuck in the snow. A 53-year-old man died on Sunday after getting buried in the snow, although his nine-year-old daughter found with him was recovering, Kyodo said.

Also over the weekend, a 54-year-old man and a 76-year-old man were found collapsed in the snow in another part of Hokkaido, and both were confirmed dead, it said.

The storm caused two-metre-high drifts and was blamed for derailing a bullet train in Akita prefecture, south of Hokkaido, on Saturday afternoon. Kyodo said the passenger train was moving slowly because of the heavy snow on the tracks, and the derailment caused no injuries.

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Remote-controlled car bomb kills 11

A POWERFUL remote-controlled car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims killed at least 11 people in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwest overnight, police said.

The incident took place in the Hazar Ganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

"A bus carrying Pakistani Shiite Muslims was coming to Quetta from Iran when a car bomb exploded near it, killing 11 people, including nine Shiite pilgrims and two escorting policemen," said senior local police official Hamid Shakeel.

"It was a remote controlled blast. The bomb was planted in a car and exploded as the bus passed by it," he said, adding that more than 20 people were injured in the attack.

Two other senior police officials confirmed the explosion and casualties.

Manzoor Ahmed, a bomb disposal squad official, said the improvised explosive device weighed more than 30 kilograms.

The attack comes a day after a bomb planted under a tea stall at a railway station in southwestern Pakistan killed seven people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others.

Baluchistan has become an increasing flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, who account for about one fifth of the country's 167 million population.

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