17 Dead As Air India Flight Crash-Lands at Kerala Airport QRCS
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INDEX QATAR 2, 12 COMMENT 10-11 BUSINESS | Page 1 QATAR | Page 12 ARAB WORLD 3 BUSINESS 1-8 Qatar’s INTERNATIONAL 3- 9 SPORTS 1-8 Low prices, automobile DOW JONES QE NYMEX convenience sector sees strong draw customers 27,433.48 9,411.83 41.60 rebound month- +46.50 +89.87 -0.35 to Al Sailiya +0.17% +0.96% -0.83% Central Market on-month in June Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXXI No. 11634 August 8, 2020 Dhul-Hijjah 18, 1441 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir sends greetings to Cote d’Ivoire president His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and 17 dead as Air His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to the President of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, India fl ight on the anniversary of his country’s Independence Day. HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani also sent a crash-lands at similar cable of congratulations to Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Hamed Bakayoko. Qatar medical aid for Kerala airport Haiti to tackle virus Qatar’s embassy in the Dominican Reuters Kerala, home to a large number of Indi- Republic has provided medical Kozhikode, India ans working in the Middle East. aid to Haiti to help it confront the The staff of QRCS’s representation mission in Lebanon with the Lebanese Red Cross after the Qatari aid flight arrives in Beirut. Puri said rescue operations had been coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. completed and all passengers had been The shipment, provided by Qatar t least 17 people were killed and removed from the aircraft. Charity, included medical and more than 100 injured when Police said earlier four people were preventive assistance. Acting Aan Air India Express passenger stuck in the wreckage. charge d’aff aires of the embassy plane repatriating Indians stranded by The civil aviation ministry said in a in Santo Domingo Yaser Awad al- QRCS humanitarian the Covid-19 pandemic overshot the statement there was no fi re on board. Abdulla presented the aid shipment runway in heavy rain near the southern India, which shut down all air travel to the acting charge d’aff aires of city of Kozhikode yesterday, offi cials in late March to try to contain the novel the Haiti embassy in the Dominican said. coronavirus, has restarted limited in- Republic, Yves Rody Jean. The Boeing-737 fl ight from Dubai to ternational air travel. aid reaches Lebanon Calicut International Airport was car- Air India Express AXB1344, was a MoPH reports 109,142 rying 190 passengers and crew, the civ- government-operated repatriation fl ight total Covid-19 recoveries il aviation ministry said in a statement. for Indians previously unable to return s part of the immediate hu- Qatar team ‘begins’ assembling Among them were 10 infants. home because of the travel restrictions. The Ministry of Public Health manitarian response to the A Kozhikode offi cial said that the TV visuals showed the aircraft’s nose (MoPH) reported yesterday ABeirut Port explosion, a Qa- A technical team from Qatar has assembling the first hospital inside two pilots were among the dead. smashed into a brick wall, with much 291 new confirmed cases of tar Amiri Air Force aircraft arrived begun work on assembling the two the Al-Roum Hospital. The second Television footage showed rescue of the middle of the plane pulverised. Coronavirus (Covid-19) and 311 in Lebanon yesterday with aid cargo field hospitals sent by the state hospital would be assembled in the workers moving around the wreckage in Local TV news channels showed recoveries in the last 24 hours, from Qatar Red Crescent Society help Lebanese authorities treat the vicinity of the Jeitaoui Hospital. pouring rain. The aircraft lay split into passengers, some of them lying mo- bringing the total number of (QRCS) in solidarity with Lebanon people wounded and aff ected by The Lebanese side will manage the at least two chunks after the plane’s fu- tionless on stretchers, brought into a people who recovered from the under the ‘Lebanon in Our Hearts’ the Beirut Port explosion. two field hospitals after the end selage sheared apart as it fell into a val- hospital surrounded by health workers disease in Qatar to 109,142. The campaign, QRCS announced. The team that arrived in Beirut of the tasks of the Qatari medical ley 35ft below, authorities said. wearing masks because of the Cov- MoPH also announced the deaths QRCS leaders present during the on Thursday evening on board a team, which will oversee the start- “Unfortunately, 17 people have lost id-19 pandemic. of two new patients aged 64 departure of the aircraft from Qatar Qatar Amiri Air Force plane, began up. (QNA) their lives. I off er my condolences to “Pained by the plane accident in and 75, who were receiving the included secretary-general Ali bin their next of kin and pray for speedy Kozhikode” Prime Minister Narendra necessary medical care. Page 2 Hassan al-Hammadi, chief executive recovery of the injured,” Civil Aviation Modi tweeted. “My thoughts are with director and Relief and International Cross. They co-ordinated with the ter, and food aid to alleviate the im- Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a those who lost their loved ones. May the India institute to make Development acting director engi- embassy of Qatar in Lebanon to fa- pact of the disaster on the affected tweet. injured recover at the earliest,” he said. neer Ibrahim Abdullah al-Maliki, and cilitate the entry and handover of the vulnerable people and support the Yesterday’s crash is the worst pas- Kerala has been battered by heavy 100mn vaccine doses International Relations and Inter- cargo. efforts of the Lebanese Red Cross. senger aircraft accident in the country rains in recent days. Up to 100mn Covid-19 vaccine doses national Humanitarian Law head Dr Consisting of tonnes of relief and Together with the host National since 2010, when an Air India Express At least 15 people were killed on Fri- could be made available for poorer Fawzi Oussedik. medical aid, the cargo is the first of Society, QRCS’s mission is provid- fl ight, also from Dubai, overshot the day after a landslide triggered by heavy countries by 2021 under a deal As the aircraft arrived in Beirut, it successive batches of aid to be sent ing food and other urgent aid for the runway and slid down a hill while land- rains fl attened a row of huts elsewhere struck yesterday for production at was received by the staff of QRCS’s under ‘Lebanon in Our Hearts’ hu- affected families, in order to help ing in the southern Indian city of Man- in the state. the Serum Institute of India. The deal representation mission in Lebanon, in manitarian campaign launched by them to withstand the current or- galuru, killing 158 people. Around 50 other people were feared was announced by Gavi, the Vaccine co-operation with the Lebanese Red QRCS to provide healthcare, shel- deal. Page 12 Both Mangaluru and Kozhikode have trapped in the debris. The dead includ- Alliance, for production of two table-top runways that are located at ed two children. diff erent potential vaccines at SII, the an altitude and have steep drops at one “It has been raining for the last two world’s largest vaccine manufacturer or both ends of the runway. days. Even right now it’s raining here... by volume. The vaccines will Media reports suggested the plane This is the third calamity in the region be priced at a maximum $3 per skidded off the runway of Calicut air- (this year). First fl oods, then a land- dose and made available to up Lebanon president rejects global blast probe port, crashing nose-fi rst into the ground. slide and now this,” said senior local to 92 countries as part of Gavi’s Kozhikode is in the southern state of policeman Abdul Karim. coronavirus vaccine advance market commitment programme. AFP Even Lebanese President Michel What ignited the massive shipment Beirut Aoun admitted yesterday that the of the chemical remains unclear — Record number of “paralysed” system needed to be “re- offi cials have said work had recently considered”. begun on repairs to the warehouse, women for US House ebanon’s president yesterday re- “We are facing changes and recon- while others suspected fi reworks A record number of women are jected any international probe into sidering our system, which is built stored either in the same place or running for seats in the House of Lthe catastrophic port blast, say- on consensus, after it was seen to be nearby. Representatives in November’s US ing a missile or negligence could have paralysed and incapable of swiftly ex- Lebanon’s probe has so far led to election, the Center for American been responsible as rescuers desperately ecuting decisions,” Aoun told report- 21 arrests, including the port’s gen- Women and Politics said yesterday. combed the rubble for survivors. ers. eral manager Hassan Koraytem, other A total of 243 women have secured The entrenched ruling class has He pledged “swift justice”, but re- customs offi cials and port engineers, party nominations for House seats, come under fi re once again since jected widespread calls for an inter- a judicial source told AFP. according to the centre a division Tuesday’s explosion, which killed national probe, telling a reporter he Dozens more were being interro- of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at least 154 people and devastated saw it as an attempt to “dilute the gated by Lebanon’s military court, at Rutgers University.