Chulo
10-17-2006, 08:07 AM
Rush to marry ends in tragedy
Mon Oct 16, 10:35 AM ET
KARACHI (*******) - A Pakistani man has committed suicide outside his fiancee's home after he thought he accidentally killed her while trying to persuade her to get married early, police said Saturday.
The man, Ahmed Ashraf, was shooting a gun in the air outside his fiancee's home in the southern city of Karachi on Friday as part of his efforts to persuade her to get married two months early when a stray bullet accidently hit her, police said.
"He was so eager to get married he stood in front of his fiancee's house and started firing shots in the air to catch her attention," said investigating officer Ghulam Hussain.
The young woman was coming downstairs when a bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit her. She fell down screaming "I have been shot," Hussain said.
"He thought he had killed her and within seconds shot himself. The girl is fine," Hussain said.
"It is a tragic accident. They were engaged to be married with their parents' consent on December 25. He was insisting they get married earlier."
Ashraf had told his fiancee, Naureen, he would do something drastic if she didn't agree to get married straight away. The woman insisted the marriage date had already been set and there was no need to hurry, Hussain said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/od_nm/pakistan_marriage_dc;_ylt=AmzOxMdsFth_XLdls85xvhys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
what happend to throwin rocks at the window? or did they use up all the rocks stoneing people? <ohhhhhh.. i said it!>
Artillery round melted for scrap kills two
Mon Oct 16, 10:32 AM ET
KAMPALA (*******) - Two people were killed and seven seriously wounded in Uganda when an artillery round blew up as a man tried to melt it down for scrap metal, police said on Saturday. Police cordoned off the area where the shell was found, searching for other munitions after the incident, which happened on Thursday in Amuria, a remote part of the once war-ravaged eastern Teso region.
"We understand this man picked up a shell and tried to melt it for scrap. He put it in the fire and it exploded," Francis Agwoka, acting police chief for the region, told ******* by telephone.
"Two people were killed and seven others rushed to hospital critically injured. We are sealing off the area to look for more bombs."
The Teso region was attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 2003, spreading a war that had hitherto affected only northern Uganda. Hundreds of thousands of civilians fled to refugee camps.
Though they were repelled by the army and local government-backed militia, aid workers say parts of Teso remain littered with mines and abandoned ammunition.
Police have warned people in Teso not to touch unfamiliar metal objects.
The Ugandan government and LRA signed a truce in August that many hope will bring an end to a 20-year insurgency that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 2 million. Peace talks are under way in south Sudan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/od_nm/uganda_explosion_dc;_ylt=AijdXOnUqwjS.WPYEWI.AMqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
hey look! a bomb.. lets melt it!
Mon Oct 16, 10:35 AM ET
KARACHI (*******) - A Pakistani man has committed suicide outside his fiancee's home after he thought he accidentally killed her while trying to persuade her to get married early, police said Saturday.
The man, Ahmed Ashraf, was shooting a gun in the air outside his fiancee's home in the southern city of Karachi on Friday as part of his efforts to persuade her to get married two months early when a stray bullet accidently hit her, police said.
"He was so eager to get married he stood in front of his fiancee's house and started firing shots in the air to catch her attention," said investigating officer Ghulam Hussain.
The young woman was coming downstairs when a bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit her. She fell down screaming "I have been shot," Hussain said.
"He thought he had killed her and within seconds shot himself. The girl is fine," Hussain said.
"It is a tragic accident. They were engaged to be married with their parents' consent on December 25. He was insisting they get married earlier."
Ashraf had told his fiancee, Naureen, he would do something drastic if she didn't agree to get married straight away. The woman insisted the marriage date had already been set and there was no need to hurry, Hussain said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/od_nm/pakistan_marriage_dc;_ylt=AmzOxMdsFth_XLdls85xvhys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
what happend to throwin rocks at the window? or did they use up all the rocks stoneing people? <ohhhhhh.. i said it!>
Artillery round melted for scrap kills two
Mon Oct 16, 10:32 AM ET
KAMPALA (*******) - Two people were killed and seven seriously wounded in Uganda when an artillery round blew up as a man tried to melt it down for scrap metal, police said on Saturday. Police cordoned off the area where the shell was found, searching for other munitions after the incident, which happened on Thursday in Amuria, a remote part of the once war-ravaged eastern Teso region.
"We understand this man picked up a shell and tried to melt it for scrap. He put it in the fire and it exploded," Francis Agwoka, acting police chief for the region, told ******* by telephone.
"Two people were killed and seven others rushed to hospital critically injured. We are sealing off the area to look for more bombs."
The Teso region was attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in 2003, spreading a war that had hitherto affected only northern Uganda. Hundreds of thousands of civilians fled to refugee camps.
Though they were repelled by the army and local government-backed militia, aid workers say parts of Teso remain littered with mines and abandoned ammunition.
Police have warned people in Teso not to touch unfamiliar metal objects.
The Ugandan government and LRA signed a truce in August that many hope will bring an end to a 20-year insurgency that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 2 million. Peace talks are under way in south Sudan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061016/od_nm/uganda_explosion_dc;_ylt=AijdXOnUqwjS.WPYEWI.AMqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-
hey look! a bomb.. lets melt it!