Breaking: Deadly magnitude 6.5 earthquake kills 97 in Indonesia - photos

An earthquake off Indonesia's northern Aceh province has killed at least 97 people, say local military officials.

The magnitude 6.5 quake struck just off the north-east coast of Sumatra island, where dozens of buildings have collapsed and many people are feared trapped under rubble.


"So far, 97 people have been killed and the number keeps growing," Aceh military chief Tatang Sulaiman said in a live TV interview.

Hundreds of people have been injured.


A spokesman for Indonesia's national disaster agency said more than 200 shops and homes had been destroyed, along with 14 mosques. A hospital and school were also badly damaged.


"We estimate the number of casualties will continue to rise as some of the residents are still likely [to be] under the rubble of the buildings. The search and rescue operation is still underway," said Sutopo Nugroho, who also said thousands of rescuers, including soldiers, had been deployed.


Maj Gen Tatang Sulaiman said four people had been rescued alive from the rubble and he believed there might be four or five more still buried, though he did not say whether they were alive.

"Hopefully we would be able to finish the evacuation from the rubble before sunset," he said.

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Breaking: Mozambique Explosion leaves 73 dead, More than 100 injured

At least 73 were killed and another 110 suffered severe burns when a truck carrying petrol blew up in Mozambique, the country's government has said.

"The incident occurred when citizens tried to take petrol from a truck" in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete province, near Malawi, the government said in a statement.

The government added that 110 people were injured, some of them critically. Children were among the wounded, it said.

"Ambulances and medical personnel were deployed to the scene in order to assist the victims. The injured were evacuated to Tete hospital," the government statement said.

Authorities are probing whether the truck was selling petrol when it exploded, or whether it had been ambushed by residents, information ministry director Joao Manasses told the AFP news agency.

A local journalist told AFP the truck had crashed on Wednesday and exploded Thursday afternoon, as scores of people tried to siphon off fuel.

The government "deplores the loss of life... and is currently providing the necessary assistance in order to save lives and to comfort the victims' families," it said.

Three ministers are due to arrive at the scene on Friday in order to monitor the rescuers' work.

Mozambique is one of the world's poorest nations, according to the International Monetary Fund, and since its civil war ended in 1992 its population has suffered the consequences of a terrible economic crisis.

The government recently increased the price of fuel, after the value of the local currency named metical sunk against the dollar.

Tete province was also hit by another tragedy in January 2015, when 75 people died from intoxication after drinking traditional beer.

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Breaking News! Ex-Sultan of Sokoto Ibrahim Dasuki is dead

The former Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki is dead.

The former Sultan who is also the father to former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki died on Monday, November 14, evening at the National Hospital in Abuja at the age of 93.

PRNigeria reports that the late Sultan will be buried on Tuesday, November 15, after 2 pm afternoon prayers according to Islamic rites.

The prayers will take place at the Hubbaren Shehu Usman Dan Fodio Site in Sokoto state. Dasuki was the 18th Sultan of Sokoto.

He was dethroned in 1996 during military government of late general Sani Abacha.

Before ascending the throne as Sultan, Dasuki was Baraden Sokoto. He was the also the first Sultan from the Buhari line of the house of Dan Fodio and a close associate of Ahmadu Bello.

Meanwhile, his son Sambo is still in detention at the Abuja facility of the Department of State Services.

It is still unclear if he will be released by the federal government to pay his last respect to his father.

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Breaking: 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand

Thousands of people are being evacuated from New Zealand's capital and the eastern coast of its South Island after the country was rocked by a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

The quake created a tsunami which struck the northeastern coast of the South Island, and has led to the evacuation of thousands of people from the area.

The scale of the damage and the extent of injuries is unclear, but there are reports of significant damage to some buildings in Wellington.

"I hope everyone is safe after the earthquake tonight. The civil defence is looking into the impact of the quake. Follow them to stay updated," Jon Key, the country's prime minister, wrote on Twitter minutes after the tremor took place.


Terrified New Zealanders have already begun posting photographs of their homes in the aftermath of the quake.

A spokesman for New Zealand's ministry of civil defence has issued a tsunami warning and urged those living near the southern and eastern coasts of the South Island to get to high ground as soon as possible.

Several tsunami are expected to strike the coastline within the next few hours, with seismologists predicting a tidal surge of up to three feet.

Tamsin Edensor, a mother of two in Christchurch, said the shaking lasted a "long" time.

"We were asleep and woken to the house shaking, it kept going and going and felt like it was going to build up," she told AFP.

New Zealand sits on the "Ring of Fire," an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes are common. An earthquake in 2011 in Christchurch killed 185 people.

The country's 111 emergency service were initially knocked out by the quake, New Zealand police said, but were restored shortly after.

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Breaking: Husband bit off his wife’s nose when she couldn’t afford a dowry

This photograph shows the appalling violence inflicted on a woman when she couldn’t afford to pay a dowry.

Raj Kumari, aged 21, will be scarred for rest of her life after she tried to leave her husband Shiv Prasad, whose family continually demanded money which she didn’t have.

‘They asked for a huge amount and a luxury motorbike, which my family could never afford,’ Raj said. ‘They used to physically attack me and they wouldn’t stop reminding me of it.’

When her in-laws blocked her from continuing her studies, she bravely decided enough was enough and moved back to live with her parents in Uttar Pradesh, northern India.

But her husband, 23, wouldn’t let her walk away.

‘This is what he did when I refused to return with him,’ Raj said.

She was walking to one of her classes on November 1, when Shiv ran up behind her and grabbed her.

When Raj refused to go home with him he turned angry, lunging at her face. All she can remember is him biting her nose and leaving her in excruciating pain.

Covered in blood, she called her family and was rushed to hospital.

Emergency Medical Officer Dr Surjit Kumar Singh said: ‘The wound will take time to heal but her nose will never be normal again and she will not look like she did before.


‘She will need cosmetic surgery but it’s a costly affair.’

Raj, who angered her husband by not being able to afford surgery in the first place, says she is unable to afford plastic surgery to correct the wound.

Police arrested Shiv Kumar, a daily labourer, at his home on the same day. He is currently in custody.

Inspector Ashok Kumar Singh, from Gola Police Station, said: ‘The accused has said he did not like the way his wife dressed for her classes.

‘But she was wearing formal attire like trousers, shirt and tie when he attacked her. He said he attacked her because she refused to return home with him. We are also investigating the dowry and harassment
claims and we will take action accordingly.’

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Breaking: Deadly Car bomb Explosion kills eight, injures 40 in Turkey

A car bomb rocked southeastern Turkey’s largest city of Diyarbakir today, killing eight and injuring more than 40. The attack followed the arrests of 11 lawmakers from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), including the party’s two co-leaders Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas and parliamentary group leader Idris Baluken.

The government has accused the HDP of links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group. The deputies were arrested for failing to answer a summons to testify as part of a counter-terrorism investigation, a security source said.

The deputies face prosecution under anti-terrorism laws after their parliamentary immunity was lifted earlier this year, along with other lawmakers from Turkey’s main political parties. Unlike deputies from other parties, the HDP lawmakers had refused to appear to testify.


Southeastern Turkey has been rocked by political turmoil and violence for more than a year after the collapse of a ceasefire with the PKK militant group, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.

In comments cited by the Anadolu Agency, Justice Minister, Bekir Bozdag, said today’s detentions were within the law and rejected criticism of the move.

“The lawmakers who are detained … disregarded the law,” he said. “They were sent an invitation but they don’t come. What other solution is there?

It is to bring them forcibly.”

The HDP is the third-largest party in the 550-seat Turkish parliament, with 59 seats, and won more than five million votes in the November 2015 general election.

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Shocking!!! 90-year-old grandmother raped by Migrant while returning from church

German police have arrested a 19-year-old Moroccan migrant on suspicion of raping a 90-year-old woman who had been attending a church service.

Dusseldorf police announced on Sunday that they had arrested the man after they had launched a search for the assailant after the daylight attack on the grandmother.

The elderly woman had left in the church in the heart of the German city centre on October, 2, when the assailant pushed her into a narrow alley between two pubs.

In the alley, which is usually closed off to the public and used for storing rubbish from the pubs, the perpetrator is said to have demanded money from the woman before sexually assaulting her.

Dusseldorf police were able to construct a likeness of the suspect after a police officer recognised the man at a trains station.

Local media reported that the DNA of the man, a Moroccan migrant who had previously lived in Spain,
matched the traces found at the crime scene.

According to reports the man had been previously arrested for robbing a teenager in May this year.

The lady was treated in hospital for her injuries at the time but released the following day.

The news comes after the chief of the German police union Rainer Wendt claimed that criminal migrants from north Africa were “laughing” at the German justice system as they are often allowed
to go free after committing crimes.

“They despise our country and laugh at our justice,” Mr. Wendt said.

“If there is no pre-trial detention made, no imprisonment is imposed, and no deportations carried out then the police make multiple arrests and the perpetrators get away with it,” he added and stated that the migrants are often then released.

Mr Wendt also referred to the ‘Casablanca Report’ that documented around 2,244 North African migrant criminals in the city of Dusseldorf and the police union leader stated that the figures were similar for other German cities around the country.

Earlier this year refugees burnt down a shelter for asylum seekers in the city amid claims that the fire had been started over a dispute over food.

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Breaking: ISIS explodes biggest hotel in Mosul

A local source told the German News Agency that the ISIS militants bombed the Opraway Hotel, the largest hotel in Mosul which was made up of 11 storeys.

The source explained that the militants used barrels of TNT to explode the building. ISIS changed the name of the hotel to 'al-Warithin' and made it a secure place for its leaders which caused the resentment of the residents of Mosul.

The ISIS militants already began a campaign of bombing public administrative buildings in central Mosul, according to a source from Nineveh Police department, and the militants destroyed a number of buildings earlier on Wednesday, and bulldozed four churches in the city.

According to an officer from Nineveh police, this step of the terrorist group indicates that it is certain about its defeat in Mosul and the loss of the city is only a matter of time, particularly after it has been surrounded by the Iraqi forces.

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Breaking: 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits Japan

A powerful earthquake with a suspected magnitude of 6.6 has shaken Japan, injuring seven people -– one seriously.

The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake occurred Friday at 2:10 p.m. (0510 GMT) in Japan's western prefecture of Tottori, about 700 kilometers (430 miles) west of Tokyo, at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles) underground.

The epicentre of the quake was at a relatively shallow depth of 11km (7 miles) below the surface. Shallow quakes potentially cause more damage but most of Friday's damage appears to be minor or localised.

At least two houses collapsed, and television footage showed roof tiles knocked loose, wall fragments from a sake brewery fallen to the ground, and wine bottles and food items scattered on a store floor. Japan's public broadcaster NHK said a woman cooking in a restaurant was taken to a hospital after she was splashed with oil.

"It shook quite violently and file cabinets fell down, but luckily nobody was injured in this office," Koji Nakahara, a town hall official in coastal Hokuei, told NHK by telephone.

Suminori Sakinada, a local government official, told Agence France Presse: "We felt fairly strong jolts, which I think were the biggest in years, but we have not seen any damage or things falling".


Bullet train services have been suspended in the area and nearly 40,000 homes were believed to be temporarily left without power as the quake knocked out power lines.

NHK said switched-off nuclear reactors in the region were not affected.

Japan sits on the edge of four tectonic plates so earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are fairly commonplace but strict building regulations mean strong tremors rarely do damage to modern buildings.

But the quake comes five and a half years since a 9.0 undersea earthquake cause a tsunami, a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant and resulted in the deaths of over 18,000 people.

The then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the crisis the country "most difficult in the 65 years since the end of the Second World War".

Similarly a 1995 earthquake which struck Kobe in the south of the country killed over 6,000 people and made a further 200,000 homeless as many older buildings were destroyed and a freeway toppled over.

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Hearbreaking: ISIS slaughters 250 kids in dough kneader horror & burns men alive in oven

CRUEL ISIS terrorists put hundreds of children as old as four through a dough kneader and killed six
men by burning them alive in an oven.

The warped jihadis killed the children in an industrial dough kneader — sometimes in front of their horrified mums and dads — in a bakery in Duma in Syria.

A chilling new report states one Syrian woman, Alice Assaf, spoke of "Christians being killed and
tortured". She added children are being beheaded in front of their parents.

She continued: "Our neighbour came in and said 'Umm Issa, they have taken many girls, about 300
girls. They were taken to Duma. Many of them were Christians and few were Alawites.'

"At the bakery there were six young people who were working there. We knew them. They were burned in the oven, six well-framed men."

"Then there were 250 children. They were put in the dough mixer, they were kneaded. The oldest of them was four years old," Ms Assaf told advocacy charity Roads to Success.


Duma has been the site of bloodshed and violence as the city has found itself at the heart of the Syrian civil war.

ISIS meanwhile continues to wipe out Christians in the Middle East, targeting believers in Iraq and Syria.

The latest damning report, by charity Open Doors UK, found Christians in the region have been taken
hostage, church leaders assassinated, homes and businesses destroyed and women and girls forced into sexual slavery.

A spokeswoman from Open Doors UK said: “Horrific stories such as these are sadly all too familiar to
those who have encountered Daesh (ISIS).

"Open Doors local partners in Syria and Iraq are providing trauma counselling to help victims of abuse
begin to heal following their terrible experiences, as well as providing practical support.”

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U.S. Death Toll From Hurricane Matthew Rises to 17 (Watch Video)

At least eight people were killed in North Carolina and one person was killed in South Carolina by Hurricane Matthew's destructive forces, bringing the storm's death toll to 17 across four southeastern states, authorities said Sunday morning.

Hundreds of flooded residents were rescued overnight in North Carolina and more than two million businesses and homes still without power along the southeastern seaboard as Matthew continued to batter the Atlantic coast with 75 mph winds even as it was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone.


"This is an extremely dangerous situation," North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said during a Sunday morning news conference. "We have neighborhoods underwater. I am praying we don't find people who were swept away."

By Saturday night, rainfall totals were 16 inches in Bladen County, 15 inches in Goldsboro, 12 inches in Lumberton and Smithfield, and 9 inches in Raleigh and Rocky Mount, McCrory said in a statement.

The Fayetteville, North Carolina, Emergency Operations Center said response teams rescued nearly 700 people overnight in the Fayetteville and Cumberland County areas while 503 people were being housed in area shelters. The center said four people were missing in the county. It was unclear if any of the missing people were counted among the dead.

Nearly 815,000 customers across the state were without power, according to the state's emergency management office.

Dramatic video was released of a mother and baby being rescued from a flood-stricken vehicle.

At 8:00 a.m. EST Sunday, the storm was about 60 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and headed northeast at 14 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.

The center of the storm was set to move south of the North Carolina coast Sunday and well east of the state later in the day as it weakens.

Forecasters said widespread flooding was possible from heavy rain, up to 20 inches, storm surges and high tides along the East Coast.

"We are looking at very significant flooding. Almost every road in the city is impassable," Virginia Beach spokeswoman Erin Sutton told the Weather Channel from the city of almost 500,000 people between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

A state of emergency was declared in the city Sunday morning, and residents were urged to stay home.

Nearly 250,000 power outages had been reported in Virginia by Sunday afternoon, according to utility
companies.

Matthew, which days ago briefly topped out as a ferocious Category 5 storm, made U.S. landfall on
Saturday near McClellanville, South Carolina, a village 30 miles north of Charleston.

Gov. Nikki Haley said Sunday that more than 4,000 people were still in shelters as emergency crews monitored swollen rivers and cleared debris-covered roads.

Five buildings near Myrtle Beach were completely destroyed when a wind- whipped fire consumed the structures Saturday night, according to officials. The residents of the multi-story buildings had already evacuated before the fires, and no one was injured, a statement from the city said.

Damage in the United States, however, was much less than in Haiti, where Matthew took nearly 900 lives. At least 13 people on the Caribbean island have also died from outbreaks of cholera since the storm, and around 61,500 people were in shelters, officials said.

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Massive Category Four storm 'Hurricane Matthew' hits Haiti - Watch Video

The most powerful Caribbean hurricane in nearly a decade has hit Haiti, bringing 230km/h (145mph) winds, heavy rain and dangerous storm surges.

Hurricane Matthew, a Category Four storm, has led to a number of deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Southern Haiti has effectively been cut off after the bridge linking it to the capital, Port-au-Prince, collapsed.

The UN said the country was facing the "largest humanitarian event" since a huge earthquake in 2010.


At least 10,000 people were in shelters and there were reports of overcrowded hospitals suffering shortages of fresh water, Mourad Wahba, the UN special representative for Haiti, said.

More than 4m children could be exposed to hurricane damage, Unicef said, warning of the spread of waterborne disease.

The deputy mayor of the southern coastal town of Les Cayes described the scene there as "catastrophic".

Deputy Mayor Marie Claudette Regis Delerme said the city of 70,000 people was flooded and many houses had lost roofs. She herself had to flee a meeting when a gust ripped off the building's roof.

Images from Les Cayes showed people walking in shoulder-high water, with relief workers saying that other coastal communities were also under water, including Les Anglais.

Fonie Pierre, director of Catholic Relief Services for Les Cayes, told AP: "Many people are now asking for help, but it's too late because there is no way to go evacuate them."

Officials said they were trying to restore access to Haiti's southern peninsula after the collapse of the La Digue bridge but admitted it would be difficult to find an alternative route.

A number of people were reported to have died in Haiti - one of the world's poorest countries with many residents living in flimsy housing in flood-prone areas - and the Dominican Republic.

One man too ill to leave his home was killed when waves struck in the town of Port Salut.

Haiti's Interim President Jocelerme Privert said earlier that some people at sea or who had not "respected alerts" had died, but he gave no more details.

Four people died after mudslides and wall collapses in neighbouring Dominican Republic.

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Angelina Jolie divorces Brad Pitt over actor's strict parenting skills

Angelina Jolie is demanding custody of her and Brad Pitt's children amid claims she has become increasingly worried about the actor’s strict parenting skills.

The move came after sources close to the actress claimed she had been left furious by the way “Brad was parenting the children,” adding “she was extremely upset with his methods.”

The Tomb Raider star is also alleged to have became “fed up” with his use of weed and possibly alcohol, a mix she believes led to an “an anger problem”.

According to reports in the US, however, the final straw came after Jolie was forced to hire a private investigator to follow her husband over concerns he was cheating on her with the co-star of his latest film Allied, French actress Marion Cotillard.

Lawyers for the actress confirmed she had filed papers on Monday citing irreconcilable differences.
Her attorney Robert Offer told the Mirror: “This decision was made for the health of the family. She will not be commenting, and asks that the family be given its privacy at this time.”

Commenting on the divorce Pitt added: “I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids.”

In her divorce petition, which stated the couple split last Thursday, Jolie has asked for physical custody of the couple’s six children demanding a judge only give Pitt visitation rights.

A source told the Mirror: “Angie is incredible hurt by the break up. She thought their marriage was for life.

“But over the past few months the arguments have become more, the spending time together less.

“She doesn’t want a dime from Brad but is determined to have physical custody of the kids

“It is hugely significant as she does not want him to have joint, just legal, custody.

“She told her lawyers in no uncertain terms ‘The children stay with me’.

“Angie was constantly torn by the way she wants to the children to be brought up to the way Brad thinks they should be.

“They have not seen eye-to-eye over the raising of the kids for a long time. It has been a source of constant tension.”

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Sound of Music 'Liesl actress' Charmian Carr dies at age 73

American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the film The Sound of Music, has died aged 73.

Carr died in Los Angeles after complications from a rare form of dementia, her representative said.

The role of Liesl in the 1965 film includes the famous song Sixteen Going on Seventeen.

After leaving the film industry, Carr ran an interior design firm in California. Her mother had arranged for her to audition for the role, although she had had no singing or acting lessons.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music was a massive hit, at the time surpassing Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all time.

Carr later wrote two books on her experience, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. Many fans of the movie took to Twitter to post their memories, clipping up sections of her performance in the film.

Kym Karath, who played Gretl in the film, tweeted: "She has been like a sister throughout my life."

The real life Liesl, Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of the Austrian family who inspired the film, died aged 97 in 2010.

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Breaking: One dead and 15 injured in 'Huge Explosion' in Barcelona

At least one person has died and 15 others have been injured in a "huge" explosion in a block of flats in Barcelona, Spain.

The explosion ripped through the second floor flat of a residential building in Premia de Mar, a coastal resort which sits north east of the Catalan capital.

An emergency services spokesperson said: “The explosion happened at 8.25am and affected 15 people, 14 of whom were injured and one who died.”

Two of the people injured are believed to be in a serious condition. The building and neighbouring blocks have been evacuated. It is currently unclear what caused the blast but gas technicians have reportedly investigated the site.

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Breaking: 17 Indian Soldiers Killed by Militants in Kashmir

In one of the deadliest attacks in the disputed region of Kashmir , heavily armed militants stormed an Indian Army base near the border with Pakistan early Sunday, killing 17 soldiers.

India’s home minister, Rajnath Singh, in a series of pointed comments on Twitter, appeared to accuse Pakistan of being behind the attack.

“I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan’s continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups,” he said .

Pakistani officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The army said the attackers, carrying assault rifles and grenades, entered the grounds of the base in Uri, a town in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir that is among those closest to the de facto border with Pakistan.

Four militants were killed in the ensuing fighting, said S. D. Goswami, a spokesman for the army’s Northern Command, which oversees Kashmir. India and Pakistan have been locked in a dispute over the Himalayan region since the two countries secured independence from Britain in 1947. There has been a resurgence of protests in the Indian-administered portion since early July, when Indian security forces killed a 22-year-old
militant leader, Burhan Muzaffar Wani.

Young people have taken to the streets to demonstrate, many by pelting stones at security forces, who have retaliated by firing pellet guns and rifles. More than 70 people, most of them civilians, have been killed, and thousands have been injured, including many members of the security forces.

The latest attack is sure to raise tensions between the two countries, which have fought three wars since independence, two of them over Kashmir. India has long accused Pakistan of sponsoring militant attacks in the region.

Retired Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain of India, formerly with the Uri brigade, said by telephone from New Delhi that it was imperative that India respond vigorously to the attack.

“You can’t defend every piece of land along a 750-kilometer-long Line of Control, but you should retaliate to send a strong message across the border,” he said, referring to the demarcation, about 470 miles.

In a statement on Sunday, the army said a large number of troops had been stationed at the Uri base after returning from a tour of duty. They were housed in tents and other temporary shelters, which caught fire during the attack, resulting in heavy casualties.

The area around Uri is hilly, heavily forested and crisscrossed by the Jhelum River and many streams. Substantial forces from India and Pakistan are stationed there, all but eyeball to eyeball in some places.

“The militants rolled over from top of the hill, and entered from the rear side of the infantry base,” Mr. Goswami said by telephone.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India wrote on Twitter: “We strongly condemn the cowardly terror attack in Uri. I assure the nation that those behind this despicable attack will not go unpunished.”

The home minister, Mr. Singh, wrote that he had convened a security meeting in New Delhi to review the security situation after the attack and had canceled a planned trip to Russia and the United States. The army said on Twitter that Gen. Dalbir Singh, the army chief, was rushing to the attack site.

The home minister, after the security meeting, added on Twitter, “There are definite and conclusive indications that the perpetrators of Uri attack were highly trained, heavily armed and specially equipped.” In another Twitter statement, he said,

“Pakistan is a terrorist state and it should be identified and isolated as such.”

Mohammed Aslam, who lives near the base in Uri, said he heard gunfire beginning about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday and that it continued for roughly two hours.

“We were shocked and surprised when the firing started,” he said.

Farooq Ahmad Khan, a teacher who also lives near the army camp, said he had not heard “this kind of firing” in the area for 20 years.

He said a blast followed. “Then we saw heavy smoke coming out of the army camp from three different places.”

A helicopter arrived soon afterward, he said, and began making trips into and out of the camp.

Last week, India refused to allow an activist from Kashmir to leave the country to speak at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The activist, Khurram Parvez of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, has since been detained by the police and remained in custody on Sunday.

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New York Explosion: Homemade Bomb Hidden in Trashcan Injures 29 in an 'Intentional' Attack

A 'homemade bomb' hidden in a trashcan has exploded in New York injuring at least 29 people.

Terrified witnesses said they heard a "loud boom" and felt the ground beneath them shake as a huge "fireball" erupted into the air.

A second suspected bomb in a pressure cooker with wires attached to it and connected to what resembled a mobile phone was found blocks away.

CCTV caught the moment the explosive device detonated blasting out windows, damaging cars and sending dozens of terrified people running for their lives just days after the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The blast occurred at 8.30pm on 23rd Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the fashionable downtown neighborhood of Chelsea as people enjoyed the New York city nightlife.

Eye-witnesses described the moment the device went off as NY city mayor Bill de Blasio said it was an "intentional act," but not being treated as terror-related.

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Breaking: Thailand tourist boat capsizes leaving 4 dead, 100 people trapped underwater

A Thailand boat has capsized in Ayutthaya leaving at least 10 people, including one child, dead and up to 100 people trapped underwater.

The ferry tipped over near the Wat Sanam Chai temple, a popular tourist destination in the city of Ayutthaya, about 50 miles north of Bangkok.

TV reporter @Thanakarn_BrightTV20 posted a video of the aftermath, showing dozens of rescue workers clambering over the stricken vessel as large crowds gathered on a nearby jetty.

He tweeted: "Urgent! Capsized near Wat Sanam Chai in Thailand approximately 100 people who have been lost underwater."

The death toll has risen from four to 10, while several more are still missing. Rescue workers are continuing the search for survivors.

Initial reports from Thailand suggest a large group of Muslim tourists were celebrating the opening of a new mosque near the ancient Wat Sanam Chai, an active Buddhist temple on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.

They had just boarded the boat to leave when the vessel capsized in front of hundreds of fellow vistors stood on the pier.

It is not yet clear what caused the boat to capsize.

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Breaking News: London knife attack leaves 1 dead, 5 hurt in Russell Square rampage

A 19-year-old suspect was Tasered by police and arrested in the knife attack and remains under armed guard in hospital

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ISIS claims to have shot down US military jet over Iraq killing all on board

Amaq, a news agency that supports the terrorist organisation claimed ISIS shot down a plane flying near Ain Al-Asad air base in Anbar. Howerver the United States has denied Islamic State's claims that it shot down a US warplane in Iraq.

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