4 more shot dead in Lanka: shn Lankan security forces shot dead four more Tamil guerillas and seized communication equipment and explosives from an abandoned rebel hideout in separate operations, officials said Monday, reports AFP from Colombo.
Troops ambushed and killed four guerillas from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the eastern coastal district of Batticaloa on Sunday, recovering an automatic weapon and large stocks of food, official said.
The army attack came amid an upsurge in fighting In the embattled northeast, and only hours after LTTE guerillas killed five policemen in an ambush in northern Mannar. Russian ship explodes: a Russian container ship exploded and sank tn the southern part of the GOlf Monday, killing two sailors. Radio Russia reported, says Reuter from Moscow.
It said 25 crew members from the 'Kaptain Sakharov,' part of the Russian Northern Shipping Line Company, were saved after the ship caught fire and exploded. It gave no further details.
Israelis kill 2 civilians: i^dvuians.one of them a baby, were killed in South Lebanon on Monday when Israel retaliated for an attack on its patrol, security sources said, Reuter reports from Maijayoun.
Israel shelled a cluster of villages after pro-Iranian guerillas attacked the patrol. The attack triggered a fierce battle with machineguns, artillery, rockets and helicopter gunships, the sources said.
No reports on casualties from the 30-‘ minute gunbattle were Immediately available but two people, including a six month-old baby, were killed and eight people were wounded in the Israeli shelling, the sources said.
10 women die in Thai fire: Ten women workers died 1n a blaze (n a downtown four-storey commercial building that they were trapped inside early
I Tuesday, police said, reports Reuter from Bangkok.
The victims, aged from 14 to 19. were asleep when the fire broke out on the top floor of the building which had been converted into a textile factory, police said.
From initial investigations, police said the workers had been trapped in their room by a locked Iron grill.
Changylm Asawanontawon, the owner of the building who suffered minor injuries, said she had forgotten to unlock the door to a staircase before she left the building, police said.
Aid worker killed in Sarajevo :a sniper killed a British woman working for a relief organisation tn Sarajevo Monday, the UN protection force reported. says AFI’ from Sarajevo
The woman was identified as Christine Vitkut, working for direct aid
She was killed near the offices of the newspaper Oslobodjenje (liberation), which is on the notorious "snipers' alley" leading from the centre of the Bosnian capital towards the airport.
Road mishap claims 9 in Thailand: Nine people were killed and five others seriously injured when a passenger van collided head-on with a ten sheel truck In the southern Thal province of Songkla. police said Monday, reports AFP from Bangkok.
The accident took place when the van, on its way from Hat Yai to the nearby province of Trang, ran out of control and smashed into the truck, police said.
Seven people died instantly including the van driver, while the other two died at a local hospital, police said, adding that the truck driver managed to escape.