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HARBIN: The government in Hegang city, where a coal mine fire
on Wednesday left 13 miners trapped, issued an urgent circular on
Sunday asking that all 106 coal mines in the city halt production.
The directive applies even to licensed facilities. The government
sent more than 106 staff to monitor all mines around the clock to
ensure 100-percent compliance. The circular also directed all miners
working underground to leave the coal mines immediately.
-- Xinhua
JERUSALEM: Israeli police remained on a state of
alert while the army extended a closure of the West Bank on Sunday,
days after a deadly attack at a Jewish religious school in
Jerusalem. “Police remain on a state of alert, especially in
Jerusalem, and thousands of police officers have been deployed,”
senior police official Yoram Ohayun told army radio. Police were
giving priority to guarding education facilities, he said. An army
spokeswoman said the closure of the West Bank imposed after
Thursday’s attack at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva had been extended
until Monday.
-- AFP
DHAKA: Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
members recovered a Vishnu statue of 9th century A.D. in
Bangladesh’s northern Gaibandha district, about 210km northwest of
capital Dhaka, on Friday night. The Daily Star Sunday quoted sources
as saying, the Rab members recovered the over thousand-year-old
stone statue of Vishnu at Chappra village of Gobindaganj
sub-district of northern Gaibandha district. The Rab members also
recovered several artifacts including ancient terracotta tiles at
Shahargachhi village in Gaibandha and Kamarpara village in
northwestern Dinajpur district.
-- Xinhua
HANOI: Thousands of Vietnamese troops Sunday
helped clean oil off southern beaches as rescue workers sought to
contain a spill from a capsized tanker and recover the bodies of
nine more sailors, officials said. One survivor and the bodies of
five crew have been recovered since the Duc Tri, carrying 1,700 tons
of crude oil, overturned in rough seas a week earlier, drifting off
the coast near the resorts of Mui Ne and Vung Tau.
-- AFP
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