World Friday, March 22, 2019 05 Three troops shot dead by comrade 11 confirmed dead, 50 rescued British police probing attacks as one killed in J&K border firing in Karnataka building collapse on five Birmingham mosques AFP Around 400 rescuers have Heavy earth-movers and AFP The force added the inci- police said. Following reports AFP NEW DELHI rescuers with specialised equip- LONDON dents were “being treated as of a similar attack at another SRINAGAR been scouring through ment and sniffer dogs were de- linked”. mosque in a nearby neighbour- ELEVEN people were con- tonnes concrete and steel ployed in the increasingly des- A sledgehammer-wielding man “We don’t know the motive hood, officers launched targeted A paramilitary trooper in Indi- firmed dead on Thursday three after the latest tragedy in perate operation. The victims was seen smashing windows for last night’s attacks,” said patrols and discovered “further an-administered Kashmir shot days after a building under Karnataka state on Tuesday were mostly from northern at two mosques in Britain’s Chief Constable Dave Thomp- damage” at two other sites. dead three of his comrades early construction in southern India Indian states who came to the second city Birmingham and son in a statement. A fifth mosque later re- Thursday, officials said, as fresh caved in, officials said. region for work. three more have been similarly “The force and the coun- ported that windows had been violence raged in the restive ter- Around 400 rescuers have in Dharwad district, but three Police have charged the vandalised overnight, the police ter terrorism unit are working smashed. “Forensic officers are ritory where 40 troops died in a been scouring through tonnes more bodies were pulled out on builder with manslaughter but said on Thursday. side-by-side to find whoever is working to identify evidence, bombing last month. concrete and steel after the lat- Thursday. he remains free, with investiga- Counter-terrorism officers responsible.” and CCTV is being examined,” Separately an Indian soldier est tragedy in Karnataka state “At least 15 people are pos- tors saying he will be arrested are investigating attacks on the Officers were first alerted the West Midlands force added. was killed in the latest exchange on Tuesday. sibly still under the debris and after the rescue operation is mosques in different areas in in the early hours of Thursday Some 22 percent of the Bir- of fire with Pakistani forces Fifty-three people have it’s unlikely they will survive,” over. Last September, five peo- the central English city, West to reports of a man smashing mingham population described across the de-facto Line of Con- been rescued from the rub- emergency official Srikant, who ple were killed after a Delhi Midlands Police said in a state- windows with a sledgehammer themselves as Muslim in the trol (LoC) border since the two ble of the five-storey building goes by one name, told AFP. apartment block collapsed. ment. at one of the places of worship, 2011 census. nations launched tit-for-tat air strikes last month. Police said the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper opened fire on his col- EU leaders pile pressure on leagues with his service rifle at a camp in Udhampur, some 200 UK MPs to back Brexit deal kilometres (125 miles) south of Modi sticks to Varanasi the main city Srinagar. AFP “He shot himself too and is BRUSSELS in a critical condition at a hospi- tal,” Jammu police official MK EUROPEAN leaders piled the Sinha told AFP, saying the man as Amit Shah declared pressure on British MPs Thurs- “may have been under the influ- day to back a divorce deal they ence of drugs”. have negotiated with Prime According to rights group Minister Theresa May, warning Jammu Kashmir Coalition of that the alternative was a cliff- Civil Society (JKCCS), 20 Indian edge exit from the EU next week. armed forces personnel killed Gandhinagar nominee May has asked EU leaders themselves in 2018, the most in for a three-month delay to Brexit a decade. Since 2004 there have to allow her to try one more time been 80 incidents of “fratricide” to get her withdrawal agreement and 323 suicides, it says. Smriti Irani will be contesting against Rahul Gandhi in Amethi again through parliament, and the bloc has indicated it could post- UK Prime Minister Theresa May. pone exit day to May 22. But as they arrived at a Dutch Prime Minister Mark two-day summit in Brussels Rutte said he expected his fel- dominated by Britain’s deep po- low European leaders to agree in Protests in J&K litical crisis, the other 27 leaders principle on Thursday to May’s warned that this would be pos- request for a delay. over teacher’s sible only if MPs approve next But they would then “put it week the deal they have already fairly and squarely at the door of custodial death resoundingly rejected twice. the British parliament to make “In the case of a negative that call”, adding: “In case they IANS British vote then we’d be head- say no, I’m not going to specu- SRINAGAR ing to a no deal,” French Presi- late.” European Commission dent Emmanuel Macron told President Jean-Claude Juncker PROTESTS were held on reporters. “We all know it. And said that May “has to make Thursday in Srinagar city it’s essential to be clear in these sure that the British parliament and Awantipora town of In- days and moments.” agrees to the withdrawal deal”. dian-administered Jammu and Kashmir against the custodial death of a private Over a million sign online petition school teacher this week. asking British govt to stop Brexit National Conference leaders Ali Muhammad Sa- LONDON: More than a million people have signed an online gar, Nasir Sogami and oth- petition asking the British government to stop Brexit within 214 ers took carried out a protest hours, briefly crashing the site Thursday during a surge in sup- march from the Nawa-e- port. With just eight days to go until Britain is scheduled to leave Subha party headquarters the European Union, the petition launched on Wednesday admit- here demanding stern action ted that a second Brexit referendum “may not happen -- so vote against those responsible for now”. “The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ‘the the death of 28-year-old Ri- will of the people’. We need to put a stop to this claim by proving zwan Asad Pandit in police the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU,” the custody on Monday. petition read. (AFP) Police intercepted the march at some distance from the party office, after which Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) with the BJP President Amit Shah. (File photo) the protesters dispersed peacefully. IANS It’s going to be 20 out of 20 in will contest in Bihar have been Macron hails Europe’s unity Protests were also held in NEW DELHI cleared by the party’s Central Pandit’s hometown Awanti- Kerala, says Congress-led UDF Election Committee and sent to in addressing China threat pora, where family and rela- PRIME Minister Narendra Modi the state election panel. These tives of the youth demanded will fight again from his Varanasi KASARGODE: The Congress-led UDF in Kerala on Thursday will be announced subsequent- AFP exhumation of the body to constituency while BJP Presi- denied the CPI-M’s charge of an “unholy nexus” between the ly, he said. BRUSSELS show the torture marks it dent Amit Shah will make his Congress and the BJP and asserted that it was going to win all Among other prominent bore. debut in Lok Sabha polls from 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state. candidates, former Union Min- FRENCH President Emmanuel The family has dismissed Gandhinagar, BJP leader JP Na- Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala told the media ister Sanjeev Kumar Balyan will Macron said Thursday that Eu- reports that he had tried to dda announced on Thursday. that CPI-M state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan had made the fight from his Muzaffarnagar rope was “finally” united in ad- escape from police custody. The Gandhinagar seat is cur- statement after knowing the “stark reality” as to what would seat against Rashtriya Lok Dal dressing the threat from China, Members of the local rently held by veteran Bharatiya happen to the Left Front in the polls. (IANS) chief Ajit Singh, while Union as Chinese President Xi Jinping Sikh community joined the Janata Party leader LK Advani, Minister Satyapal Singh will launched a five-day tour of the President Emmanuel Macron. protests to demand justice who has been winning the seat again contest from his Baghpat continent. for the youth. consecutively from 1998. gh Rathore from Jaipur Rural. Mahesh Sharma (Gautam seat against the RLD chief’s son Xi’s visit comes a week after south, willing to make deals for Authorities had earlier Among the prominent lead- All are sitting MPs from Buddh Nagar), DV Sadananda Jayant Chaudhary. the European Union released a investment in ports, energy and ordered a magisterial inquiry ers announced in BJP’s first list, these seats. Gowda (Bengaluru North), Ar- In Bengal, Union Minister 10-point plan outlining a shift transport. by Additional Commissioner, which had 184 names across 20 Union Minister Smriti Irani jun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner), Babul Supriyo will fight to re- to more assertive relations with “Since the beginning of my Srinagar, but after it became states, were Union Ministers will again face Congress Presi- Pon Radhakrishnan (Kanniya- tain his Asanol seat, where he Beijing, warning that China was mandate, I have been calling for clear that the youth had died Rajnath Singh, who will con- dent Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, kumari), Hansraj Ahir (Chan- will face Trinamool Congress’s a “rival” to the bloc as well as its a real awareness and defence of in police custody in Khrew test again from Lucknow, Nitin while film actress-turned politi- drapur) and Subhash Bhamre Moon Moon Sen, who has biggest trading partner.