NEW DELHI -- The death toll in Saturday's stampede in India's eastern city of Kolkata rose to 19, with 25 injured people receiving treatment in different hospitals and one in a critical condition, confirmed West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday.
Most among the dead were women and children, he said while admitting that there were "some shortcomings" in the arrangements made by the organizers. Kolkata is the capital city of India's eastern state of West Bengal.
The stampede occurred at a religious event, locally called "Durga Puja", amid the ongoing annual festive season in the country. Thousands of people had gathered to take part in the celebrations when the stampede occurred. The mishap was partly blamed on heavy rains. (India-Stampede-Death)
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LOS ANGELES -- Two people, including a child, were killed and several others injured when a vehicle drove through a soccer game in the U.S. state of Kansas on Saturday, local police confirmed.
The incident occurred at around 3:25 p.m. local time (2025 GMT) at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, according to the Wichita Police Department.
Police said the vehicle remained at the scene and the driver was taken into custody, adding that there was no ongoing threat to the public.
Emergency responders were working to transport the injured to hospitals, while police urged the public to avoid the area.(US-Kansas-Incident)
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PARIS -- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Saturday urged Israel to urgently halt Israeli settlers' violence in the West Bank.
In a post on social media platform X, Barrot said the mayor of the French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries had been violently attacked by extremist settlers in the West Bank.
"The Israeli authorities must imperatively arrest those responsible for these outrageous acts and bring them to justice," he said.
"They must urgently put an end to this criminal violence and guarantee the safety of civilian populations, as they are obliged to do under international law," he added.
Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked European diplomats in the village of Taybeh, near Ramallah in the West Bank, according to the Israeli police, the military and media reports.(France-Israel)
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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Saturday that cross-border traffic and transactions between Iran and Pakistan have been temporarily suspended owing to technical problems.
"Owing to the occurrence of certain technical problems and the need to adopt precautionary measures, border traffic and transactions have been temporarily suspended," Baghaei said in an interview with the official news agency IRNA.
He added that authorities in both countries are in close contact and consulting to resolve the issue as soon as possible and restore normal operations at the border crossings.(Iran-Pakistan Border-Traffic) ■
