14 Killed In Fire

Israel announced Friday that it killed Ibrahim Aqil, commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, in a precision airstrike on Beirut. The attack targeted a meeting of senior commanders, killing at least 14 people, including 10 high-ranking officials.

A fire ripped through an apartment complex in central Hanoi early Friday, killing 14 people and injuring three others, police said.

The Hamas-run health ministry said early Friday that Israeli fire killed 14 people and wounded 150 as they waited to receive aid in the Gaza Strip.

At least four people were killed in a fire that engulfed an apartment building in Valencia in eastern Spain and up to 14 were missing, local authorities said on Friday.

A fire in an informal immigrant neighborhood in the city of Coronel in southern Chile left 14 dead, most of them children, on Monday night, according to local authorities.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday ordered the suspension of Anekal Tahsildar, a jurisdictional police inspector and the regional fire officer over the blaze at a cracker godown-cum-shop in Bengaluru Urban district that killed 14.

Most of the 14 persons killed in the cracker shop blaze near Bengaluru were poor students who worked during the holidays to support their education.

After visiting the accident site on Sunday, D K Shivakumar told reporters that the government has announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the next of kin of each victim.

Two people were killed and 14 others injured in a fire which broke out after a blast in a boiler at a chemical company in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Sunday, officials said.

Six migrant workers were killed and 14 others sustained burn injuries in an explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in Himachal Pradesh's Una district on Tuesday, officials said.

Hundreds of Nagas joined a two-day walkathon from Nagaland's commercial hub Dimapur to capital Kohima, a distance of more than 70 km, demanding the repeal of AFSPA and justice for the 14 civilians who were killed by security forces in Mon district.

The civil society groups in Nagaland's Mon district have claimed they have "doubts on the credibility" of the Army's Court of Inquiry instituted to probe the Nagaland firing incident earlier this month where 14 people were killed.

The army has agreed to give access to Nagaland's Special Investigation Team, or SIT, to record the statements of soldiers who were involved in an ambush that went horribly wrong on December 4, which claimed the lives of 14 civilians.

Nagaland's civil society groups today expressed worry over the delay in enquiry in Nagaland firings, almost a month after the tragic death of 14 young people in Mon District during a botched operation by the special forces of the Army.

A four-member Congress delegation heading for Mon district in Nagaland, where 14 civilians were killed in firing by security forces, was stopped by Assam police at the Jorhat airport on Wednesday.

Israel announced Friday that it killed Ibrahim Aqil, commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force, in a precision airstrike on Beirut. The attack targeted a meeting of senior commanders, killing at least 14 people, including 10 high-ranking officials.

A fire ripped through an apartment complex in central Hanoi early Friday, killing 14 people and injuring three others, police said.

The Hamas-run health ministry said early Friday that Israeli fire killed 14 people and wounded 150 as they waited to receive aid in the Gaza Strip.

At least four people were killed in a fire that engulfed an apartment building in Valencia in eastern Spain and up to 14 were missing, local authorities said on Friday.

A fire in an informal immigrant neighborhood in the city of Coronel in southern Chile left 14 dead, most of them children, on Monday night, according to local authorities.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday ordered the suspension of Anekal Tahsildar, a jurisdictional police inspector and the regional fire officer over the blaze at a cracker godown-cum-shop in Bengaluru Urban district that killed 14.

Most of the 14 persons killed in the cracker shop blaze near Bengaluru were poor students who worked during the holidays to support their education.

After visiting the accident site on Sunday, D K Shivakumar told reporters that the government has announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh for the next of kin of each victim.

Two people were killed and 14 others injured in a fire which broke out after a blast in a boiler at a chemical company in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Sunday, officials said.

Six migrant workers were killed and 14 others sustained burn injuries in an explosion at an illegal firecracker factory in Himachal Pradesh's Una district on Tuesday, officials said.

Hundreds of Nagas joined a two-day walkathon from Nagaland's commercial hub Dimapur to capital Kohima, a distance of more than 70 km, demanding the repeal of AFSPA and justice for the 14 civilians who were killed by security forces in Mon district.

The civil society groups in Nagaland's Mon district have claimed they have "doubts on the credibility" of the Army's Court of Inquiry instituted to probe the Nagaland firing incident earlier this month where 14 people were killed.

The army has agreed to give access to Nagaland's Special Investigation Team, or SIT, to record the statements of soldiers who were involved in an ambush that went horribly wrong on December 4, which claimed the lives of 14 civilians.

Nagaland's civil society groups today expressed worry over the delay in enquiry in Nagaland firings, almost a month after the tragic death of 14 young people in Mon District during a botched operation by the special forces of the Army.

A four-member Congress delegation heading for Mon district in Nagaland, where 14 civilians were killed in firing by security forces, was stopped by Assam police at the Jorhat airport on Wednesday.