A Boeing passenger plane came off the runway during takeoff in Senegal today, injuring 11 people and shutting the international airport near the capital Dakar for almost 12 hours, management said. The B737/300 aircraft, an Air Senegal flight chartered by privately-owned Transair, was carrying 78 passengers and headed for the Malian capital Bam...
No more than 200 houses including a healthcare centre, classrooms, business premises as well as poultry farms were destroyed by a rainstorm that blew off rooftops in the Miango District of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. Though no one died in the early downpour yesterday, three persons were injured and receiving treatment while [...
•Bandits The Ambe community in Arak Chiefdom, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday night came under a bandits’ attack that left six people dead and eight others injured. According to a resident who spoke on condition of anonymity, the attack occurred without any prior conflict with neighbouring communities, suggesting that it ...
One middle-aged woman was shot while many others sustained varied degrees of injury in Ughelli yesterday as operatives of the Delta State Police Command resorted to forceful dispersal of a group of protesting women. The women from Oteri-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area were protesting against alleged incessant harassment and ...
•Lagos PPRO Benjamin Hundeyin No fewer than people have been arrested by the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police following clash last night between Hausa youths and their Yoruba counterparts in the Ile Epo area of Agabdo/Oke Odo local council development area of Lagos State, where many people were injured. The Frontier had earlier [&hell...
•An explosion A yet-to-be-identified pregnant woman and eight others have sustained varying degrees of injuries following a gas explosion that occurred at Alaba Lane, Alayabiagba Community, in the Ajegunle-Apapa area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident occurred today at about 12:39 p.m, reports The PUNCH. Confirming the incident ...
At least 14 people died and 31 others were injured in a road accident in Mexico yesterday, the authorities announced. The accident took place in the state of Mexico, on the outskirts of the capital, when a bus overturned on the roadway, the local safety secretariat said. “Preliminary figures put the death toll at 14, […]
One person has been feared killed in a fight that broke out among students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) at a nightclub in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, last night. The development was owing to a misunderstanding which led to a fight between two groups of students at a popular joint in the town, […]
•Troops Three persons have been killed while an unspecified others were injured after a Nigerian Army patrol vehicle hit a Keke Napep rider, causing injuries on the driver and his passengers. An eyewitness, Adamu Hassan, told our correspondent, that the incident happened yesterday afternoon at the popular Garin Alkali market via Gashua, the he...
At least 17 Pakistani pilgrims have died in a bus crash while travelling to a shrine in Balochistan for Eid-el-Fitr celebrations. Officials said the accident occurred late yesterday when the vehicle lost control before falling into a ravine, reports AFP. More than 40 are also being treated for injuries in Karachi and police have warned [&helli...
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