A healthcare worker wearing protective equipment collects a swab sample from a passenger in Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 12, 2021.
It s still unclear how the leopards escaped.
Credit: AP
A leopard looks from a tree inside an enclosure at the Dachigam National Park on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. Amid the long-raging deadly strife in Indian-controlled Kashmir, another conflict is silently taking its toll on the Himalayan region’s residents: the conflict between man and wild animals. According to official data, at least 67 people have been killed and 940 others injured in the past five years in attacks by wild animals in the famed Kashmir Valley, a vast collection of alpine forests, connected wetlands and waterways known as much for its idyllic vistas as for its decades-long armed conflict between Indian troops and rebels. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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08 May 2021, 02:30 GMT+10
ABUJA At least 14 people were killed and three others sustained injuries following a multiple-vehicle collision in Nigeria s southwest state of Ogun, an official said on Friday. The incident on Thursday evening involved a commercial bus, a faulty stationary vehicle and a sedan car on a bridge along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun state, said Babatunde Akinbiyi, a spokesperson for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps in the state. (Nigeria-Traffic-Deaths) - - - - MALE The Maldives Police Service (MPS) on Friday said that there were four persons of interest identified in the investigations into an attack on Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed.
2021-05-07 14:36:36 GMT2021-05-07 22:36:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, May 7 (Xinhua) Two paramilitary troopers, a policeman and a civilian were wounded on Friday after militants carried out a grenade attack in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
The grenade was hurled towards government forces in Nawab Bazaar area of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Police said the grenade exploded with a bang, leaving the four wounded. Today militants hurled a grenade towards paramilitary troopers, which exploded with a bang wounding two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, a policeman and a civilian, a police official said. The wounded persons were immediately removed to hospital for treatment.
2021-05-06 06:36:22 GMT2021-05-06 14:36:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, May 6 (Xinhua) Three militants were killed Thursday in a gunfight with government forces in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
The gunfight erupted at village Kanigam in Shopian district, about 55 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Today early morning a gunfight broke out in Nathipora village here in which three militants were killed, a senior police official posted in Shopian said. Gunfight in the area started after joint contingents of police and army cordoned off the area. No sooner they reached the suspected area, they came under a grenade attack, evoking a retaliation.