PAKISTAN SUICIDE ATTACK KILLS TWO, INJURES 24
KARACHI: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden pickup truck into a government paramilitary base in Pakistan’s largest city on Thursday, causing a huge blast that killed two and wounded at least

24. The attack on the Rangers complex in a northern suburb of Karachi came early in the morning when many residents were asleep and offices were yet to open. Karachi is in the grip of a long-running wave of sectarian, ethnic and political violence and Thursday’s attack comes as the city’s main political party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement is urging the government to tackle Taliban elements in the city. Rangers spokesman Major Sibtain, who uses only one name, said that two of the 21 Rangers wounded when the bomber rammed the entrance to the complex had died in hospital.

COMMUTERS STRANDED IN PARIS RAILWAY INCIDENTS
PARIS: Tens of thousands of commuters and travelers on international trains were stranded for hours in Paris after a series of incidents disrupted rail traffic from the capital’s Gare du Nord station.

State SNCF railway company spokesman said the disruptions were caused “initially by a small electrical problem that should have affected 150 people for an hour but in the end it became so messy that tens of thousands of people were concerned.”

50 MISSING AFTER BANGLADESH BOAT SINKING
DHAKA: Bangladeshi rescuers on Thursday searched for 50 people still missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees heading for Malaysia capsized with 110 passengers on board, officials said.

Coastguards, the navy and fishermen have rescued about 60 people since the boat went down on Wednesday morning 15 kilometers off the southern district of Cox’s Bazaar. AFP