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Five people were killed and three injured in the early hours of Friday when a passenger coach fell into a ditch near Rahim Kot in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) capital, Muzaffarabad, according to local police. According to Superintendent of Police Sultan Awan, the passengers were going from Rawalpindi to their hometown of Mushtamba in Rahim Kot when the accident …

MANILA: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in the northern Philippines on Wedn­esday, toppling buildings and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres away in the capital Manila. The shallow and powerful quake struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43am (0043 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Shallow …

ISLAMABAD: At least five people were killed in armed clashes among groups of people in two separate incidents in the rural area of the capital on Thursday. According to police, the fights took place in Bhara Kahu and both were related to land disputes. In the first incident, a group of people, armed with modern weapons, opened fire on their …