Six killed, five injured in gas cylinder blast in Rajasthan
Ajmer: As many as six people, including three children and two women, were killed and five others injured in a gas cylinder blast during a wedding function in Beawar town here, police said on Saturday.
The blast occurred last night when the wedding function was underway in a hotel, Ajmer district collector Gaurav Goyal said, adding that the explosion severely damaged the building.
Bodies of six people have been recovered while the injured five are undergoing treatment, he said, adding that rescue operation is on to trace the missing people, believed to be 13 in number.
Two cars parked outside the building and the adjoining buildings also were damaged in the blast, police said.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
