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News Source: Xtra News
| about 1 year ago
A CANBERRA man charged with holding a young woman captive in bushland for four days threatened to kill himself in front of her, an ACT court has heard. Read more... Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:51:00 GMT DEMAND for home loans has fallen to the lowest level in...
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News Source: The Financial Express
| about 1 year ago
Kakka and Panni, both brothers from Patiala, were desperately looking for their seven family members � five women and two children. �We searched for them in the mortuary and wards, but to no avail. Now, doctors told us that we could go and...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
ET Relatives react outside Anandpur Sahib Civil Hospital in Himachal Pradesh, India, where the dead and injured of a temple stampede were taken Sunday. The devotees were attending a nine-day religious festival at the Naina Devi Temple.
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News Source: Indian Express
| about 1 year ago
Clutching a biscuit in her right hand and with a murmur of 'mum mum' on her lips, a toddler anxiously awaits to be in the arms of her parents at Naina Devi Temple in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh. No one knows yet whether her parents had met a tragic...
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News Source: Turkish Daily News
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan's Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to look into allegations his spy service was behind last month's suicide bombing of India's embassy in Kabul. Agence France-Presse Hundreds flee clashes in South Ossetia Hundreds of women and children...
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News Source: Toronto Star
| about 1 year ago
With a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, there was nowhere to escape. At one point a guardrail broke and dozens of people fell to their deaths. The bodies of the devotees – many dressed in brightly coloured holiday clothes –...
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News Source: The Hindustan Times
| about 1 year ago
5 IST(4/8/2008) Indian authorities on Monday ordered a probe into possible organisational lapses that led to a stampede outside a mountaintop Hindu temple in Himachal Pradesh, killing at least 145 pilgrims. Rumours of a landslide triggered a stampede...
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News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
Family members moved through row after row of bodies overnight in a grim search for their loved ones among the 145 people killed in a deadly stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple. Relatives react outside Anandpur Sahib Civil hospital in the...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| about 1 year ago
About 50 people have been injured in the stampede at the Naina Devi temple. Heavy rains and a rumour of a landslide and falling boulders caused widespread panic, leading to the stampede. Many of the victims were children, trampled to death during the...
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News Source: Inquirer.net
| about 1 year ago
Close to 150 Hindu worshippers, including scores of children, are confirmed to have died at a temple in northern India in the worst stampede in the country in three years, police said Monday. Tens of thousands of people had thronged the Naina Devi...