An Indian Air Force special rescue team on Thursday rescued Canadian diplomat, Andrew Norfolk, his injured wife and their three children trapped in snow in Dhauladhar ranges, north of Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, since Wednesday.
'I saw people hanging on to the bridge and later falling into the water as their grip loosened and they slipped into the water.'
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Ranajit Giri, Biprada Bag, Asha Behera and Ashok Bera, all residents of Bahanaga Bazaar station area in Balasore district where the crash took place, were among the first to rescue the injured.
Another woman from Malda district said that her son was killed in the accident.
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Efforts are on to rescue 135 people, stranded at Gaipernath near Kota since Sunday afternoon following the breaking down of steps in the ancient cave shrine due to the landslide. Two Indian Air Force(IAF) helicopters are being pressed into service.
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The army and police on Saturday rescued 400 civilians trapped in landslides at Khardung La Pass, the world's highest motorable road.
Five children were killed and another was critically injured in east Delhi when a wall collapsed on Wednesday morning, fire brigade officials said.
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New Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) With 1,35,000 women and 61,000 children continue to be missing in the country, government on Tuesday said it has approved the setting up of 150 specialised investigative units on crimes against women across the country.
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The children's parents, David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin, were arrested and each charged with nine counts of torture and 10 counts of child endangerment.
The cause of the accident was the narrow bridge near the canal.
The flash flood, triggered by heavy rain, struck Shalan town in Ning'an city, submerging its low-lying primary school where 352 pupils and 31 teaching staff were staying.
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The rescued boys have been taken to a hospital by ambulances for medical treatment.
It has sought a direction to the Centre to 'forthwith comply' with the directions passed by the top court in 2015 and file a complete status report.
A senior North Delhi Municipal Corporation official said the building was about 20 years old. Its structure was weak and in a deteriorated condition, the official added.
The Women and Child Development Ministry has found a new route to tackle the problem of runaway children, most of whom take trains to end up in big cities, and has sought Railways' support in this regard.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack, adding: "The target was Christians."
According to media reports, around 500 people were on the suspension bridge when it caved in.
"Among the dead, there are five children," he said.
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A day after 12 students and two teachers were killed in a boat accident in Harni lake on the outskirts of Vadodara city in Gujarat, three persons, including a manager of a contractor, have been arrested, said a police official on Friday.
There was a rush of people on the bridge, which was reopened for the public just four days ago following the renovation work, when it snapped around 6.30 pm, officials said.
Ten teachers questioned by the police claimed they were the first to spot the smoke and had made efforts to douse the fire.
Reiterating warnings made in dropped leaflets, the IDF's Arabic spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Avichay Adraee directed Palestinians to continue moving south of Wadi Gaza.
He said that IDF was fighting Hamas terrorists and would "dismantle their system," according to The Times of Israel.
The India Meteorological Department has said that the landfall process of Cyclone 'Biparjoy' has started in Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat. The landfall process will carry on till midnight with wind speeds reaching a maximum of 140 kilometres per hour, the IMD said.
A Jodhpur police team visited sacked Rajasthan minister Rajendra Gudha's official residence in Jaipur on Thursday in connection with the investigation of a rape case registered against two men under the POCSO Act, officials said.
The driver of a truck that ploughed into a religious procession killing at least 12 people, including seven children, in Bihar's Vaishali district was rescued from the mangled vehicle and arrested, a senior police officer said on Monday.
At least eight persons, four of them children, were buried alive and three injured when a portion of a five-storey residential building crashed in Thane's Ulhasnagar on Tuesday evening, police and health officials said.
A four-year-old girl fell into a 70-feet deep borewell in Kho village near Manesar while playing with her friends on Wednesday night.
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Nearly 200 stranded passengers, including women and children, were rescued in a night-long operation in Jammu and Kashmir's frontier district of Kupwara, the police said on Tuesday.
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