Heavy downpour in Saudi Arabia: 12 died
Riyadh, Jan 30: Total 12 persons died and more than 170 injured in a flash flood due to heavy rains in the North-West part of the country in the last one week, official sources said.
Civilian Protection Department said that 10 persons died in Tabuk and one each in Madina and in north border. In the last four days, total 271 persons were rescued and majority of them were from Al-Jawf region. Due to heavy rains, the valleys in desert were flooded and schools were closed.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
