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22 children feared drowned in bridge collapse

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:22:17 +0000

As many as twenty-two children may have drowned when a suspension bridge collapsed in Malaysia.

The New Straits Times reports, “They were among 298 other pupils who were part of a four-day motivational programme comprising 60 schools from the Kinta Selatan district.

The children were in the midst of crossing a 30m hanging bridge, to get across Sungai Kampar, when the bridge suddenly collapsed.”

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Terror mastermind killed in Indonesia

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:25:17 +0000

Indonesian police stormed an Islamic militant hideout early yesterday in a raid that killed fugitive terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top and three other militants, police said.

Noordin’s body was among four recovered after the early morning raid on a village house in central Java, national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters, bringing to an end an exhaustive six-year manhunt.

“From national police doctors’ examinations, antemortem [investigations] and fingerprints sent by Malaysian police, thank God on this holy month of Ramadan … it’s Noordin M. Top,” Danuri said to applause.

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Caning of Malaysian woman who drank beer postponed

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:43:32 +0000

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The first woman in Muslim-majority Malaysia to face caning for drinking beer was reprieved Monday because of the holy month of Ramadan. Her family said she would rather get the thrashing with a rattan cane now and put the ordeal behind her.

Islamic officials had taken Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old mother of two, into custody and were driving her to a women’s prison for the caning when they abruptly turned around and sent her back to her family home in northern Malaysia.

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Flying taxi crashes on test flight, killing its UK inventor

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:33:19 +0000

Newly-assembled aircraft Jetpod, by the British-based Avcen Ltd, crashed and burst into a ball of fire during a test flight from Tekah airstrip near here, killing its inventor Michael Robert Dacre, 53, who was piloting the aircraft.

The crash happened at 12.30pm Sunday. Dacre is also Avcen’s managing director.

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