'Maoist' blast derails 13 coaches of Express train, 65 dead 200 INJUREDIN INDIA
Eleven of the unaffected coaches of the train were bringing the passengers and those injured to Kharagpur from where they would be taken to the Midnapore Medical College Hospital, the officials said.
A relief train left Kharagpur with a team of 12 doctors and 20 paramedics as also two doctors from the Kalaikunda airbase, they said.
Helplines have been set up at Kharagpur - (0322) 255751 and 255735, Howrah - (033) 26382217, besides a toll free number 10722.
Helplines have also been set up at Tatanagar - (0657) 2290324, 2290074, 2290382, at Rourkela -(0661) 2511155, Chakradharpur - (06587) 238072 and Jharsuguda - (06445) 270977.
Gunmen attack mosques in Lahore
Gunmen armed with grenades attacked two mosques belonging to a minority Islamic sect during Friday prayers in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police said.
The attacks were against the Ahmadi group, which has often been targeted by radical Sunni groups in the past.
The mosques were several miles (kilometers) apart from each other, police officer Haider Ashraf said.
Officers outside one of the mosques in the Garhi Shahu district of Lahore were engaged in a gunfight with the attackers, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
The Ahmadis call themselves Muslims but believe that Muhammad was not the final prophet - a view that contradicts a central tenant of Islamic belief. They have long been subject to informal and state-sanctioned discrimination in Pakistan.
The government has declared them a non-Muslim minority and they are prohibited from calling themselves Muslims or engaging in Muslim practices such as reciting Islamic prayers.
-- Edited by CHIEF on Friday 28th of May 2010 05:08:36 PM
