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Friday, September 3, 2010

UPS cargo plane crashes in Dubai: agency

A jumbo jet belonging to US courier United Parcel Services crashed on Friday evening near Dubai airport, killing both crew members, civil aviation officials said. "The bodies of two of the pilots of the plane," a Boeing 747-400, were found at the scene at the crash, the official UAE news agency WAM quoted a brief civil aviation statement as saying. It did not elaborate on the cause of the crash, but said "measures were taken to contain the fire which broke out on board." Earlier reports had indicated the plane had crashed in an unpopulated area, but an AFP journalist said it had come down inside a military base near Dubai's Emirates Road. Smoke could be seen rising from inside the base, which only ambulances were allowed to enter, he said.

49 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing


In yet another sectarian assault, a suicide bomber targeted a rally of Shia Muslim minority in Pakistan's volatile south-western city of Quetta, killing 49 people and injured dozens of others. The blast took place at about 3:00 pm when an estimated 2000 people gathered in Quetta's Meezan Chowk to mark solidarity with the Palestinian people on Al-Quds Day. The rally was organized by the Shia Imamia Students Organization. Every year, on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan, rallies take place across Pakistan, to support the Palestinian demand for a homeland. After the blast, the mourners turned violent and armed people resorted to aerial firing which continued for some two hours. Television footage showed smoke billowing into the air on a chaotic street with people fleeing and others lying prone next to motorcycles, taking cover from gunfire. The injured were rushed to civil and police hospitals, Quetta.