Ahmedabad (AFP) – Eyewitnesses describe their experiences after a London-bound passenger plane ploughed into a residential area of India’s Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. “Bodies were fully burnt. Some didn’t have a leg, or forehead. It was all totally burnt. It was like coal,” eyewitness Bharat M Solanki recalls.
Teheran (AFP) – “There must be a crushing response,” says a pedestrian in Tehran after Israel pounded Iran in a series of air raids, striking 100 targets including the capital’s nuclear and military sites, and killing the armed forces’ chief of staff, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – A London-bound passenger jet crashed in a residential area in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground, with only one passenger surviving.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Images from Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital show the aftermath of Thursday’s deadly plane crash, with security stationed outside the post mortem room while families giving DNA samples to identify victims. A London-bound passenger jet crashed in a residential area in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground — but one passenger has survived.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Air India CEO Campbell Wilson was seen visiting at the crash site in Ahmedabad on Friday morning, after a London-bound passenger jet crashed into a residential area. At least 265 people on board and on the ground were killed when the Air India 787-8 Dreamliner smashed into a residential area soon after takeoff on Thursday. Just one passenger miraculously survived the giant fireball. IMAGES
Portadown (Royaume-Uni) (AFP) – Northern Ireland police and protesters face-off at a planned anti-immigration march and protest in Portadown, after a wave of unrest rocked the town of Ballymena, some 30 miles (48 kilometres) northwest of Belfast, for three nights. IMAGES
Bogotá (AFP) – Colombians pray outside the clinic where Miguel Uribe, a senator and presidential hopeful who was shot in the head while campaigning in Bogota, is currently hospitalized. An altar has been erected in front of the clinic’s bay windows, where people have been lighting candles or leaving messages and flowers over the past few days. His wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, makes a brief public appearance to greet people from inside the clinic in the Colombian capital. Uribe is showing signs of improvement but remains in critical condition, doctors said in their latest report on Wednesday June 12. IMAGES
Paju (South Korea) (AFP) – A giant loudspeaker stands silently at a North Korean military outpost near the border with the South, as Seoul’s military says its neighbour appears to have stopped broadcasting strange and unsettling noises along the border, a day after South Korea ceased blaring its own loudspeaker propaganda northwards.
Ziway (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Lake Dembel, a vast lake in central Ethiopia which provides for wildlife and thousands of people, is being pumped dry, environmentalists say. The pumps irrigate farms all around the lake. “If things continue in this manner, we could indeed lose this lake in the long run,” says Desalegne Regassa, Project Officer at the Wetlands International NGO.
Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) – Firefighters and emergency response personnel are at the site of a plane crash in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. According to officials, Air India’s London-bound flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 people on board, crashed shortly after takeoff.
Bogotá (AFP) – Maria Claudia Tarazona, wife of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, greets Uribe’s supporters gathered outside a clinic to pray for the senator’s recovery after he was shot during a campaign event in Bogota at the weekend. The 39-year-old conservative senator is showing signs of improvement but remains in critical condition, doctors said Wednesday.
New York (AFP) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stationed inside a New York immigration court, prepared to detain undocumented immigrants immediately after their hearings, as President Donald Trump intensifies his crackdown on illegal immigration in his second term.
