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Boko Haram kills five in attack on reopened highway

Boko Haram kills five in attack on reopened highway

Aug 18, – A convoy of vehicles carrying Nigerian immigration officials and a group of traders were travelling from Gamboru, on the border with Cameroon, to the city of Maiduguri when they came under fire on Monday. Boko Haram killed five traders in an ambush on a highway in northeast Nigeria that was recently reopened […]

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Afghan official- 52 dead after buses collide with tanker

Afghan official- 52 dead after buses collide with tanker

May 08, – Another 73 people who had been on the buses were wounded in the accident, which set all three vehicles ablaze, said Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of the eastern Ghazni province. Two buses and a fuel tanker collided Sunday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said. Records […]

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Belgium: 100 cars crash in fog; at least 1 dead

Belgium: 100 cars crash in fog; at least 1 dead

Dec 03, – Medical workers were working to free injured passengers from the twisted metal of their vehicles hours after the crash, and the fog is making the emergency rescue by helicopter impossible. The provincial governor, Carl Decaluwe, said one person had died, and that among the 54 injured, five were in life-threatening condition, 11 […]

December 3, 2013 | By | Reply More
Austrian police seize half-ton of cannabis

Austrian police seize half-ton of cannabis

Oct 27, – Police in Carinthia province said the drugs – divided into 500 packages were hidden inside the roof of the vehicle, which was stopped Saturday afternoon by a patrol on a highway. A sniffer dog alerted officers to the stash, and the van was taken to a nearby police station and searched. Authorities […]

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