DEVELOPING NEWS26 children dead in Ctg crash

Chittagong, July 11 (bdnews24.com)?At least 26 primary school children have died when a pick-up truck veered off the road into a canal in Mirsarai in Chittagong.

Mirsarai Police Station officer-in-charge Iftekhar Hassan on Monday confirmed the figure to bdnews24.com and said over 40 deaths from the accident are feared as more bodies could be trapped inside the sunken truck.

Among the 26 recovered, 11 have been kept at the Mirsarai Upazila Health Complex, 13 at Matrika Hospital, a nearby private clinic, and two at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

OC Iftekhar said many relatives had taken away the remains from the scene and thus the number of deaths could not be ascertained.

He said the open truck was carrying a good number of school children who were returning after attending a football tournament.

It fell into a ravine at Bara Takia on Abu Torab Road around 1.45pm.

Police and Fire Service have begun rescue operations, he said.

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3 children among 15 dead in new raid on Libya

A picture taken on a government-guided tour Sunday shows the rubble of buildings. TRIPOLI, June 20 (agencies) : Three children were among 15 people killed in a new NATO-led air strike Monday, government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters as they were given a tour of damaged buildings in Sorman, 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Tripoli.

Meanwhile: NATO acknowledged late Sunday that it was responsible for civilian deaths in Tripoli after Libyan officials showed reporters five bodies, two of them of toddlers, they said were among nine people killed in a "barbaric" air strike.

Rebels fighting the four-decade rule of Moamer Kadhafi meanwhile warned that they were running out of money as their struggle enters a fifth month and called on governments in the NATO-led coalition to make good their promises of funds.

An alliance statement released in Brussels said "NATO acknowledges civilian casualties in Tripoli strike" during action targeting a missile site.

"It appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target and that there may have been a weapons system failure which may have caused a number of civilian casualties," the statement added.

The admission that the civilian deaths were caused by NATO was an embarrassment for the alliance which has led the bombing campaign under a UN mandate to protect civilians.

Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim accused the Western alliance of "deliberately targeting civilians," insisting there were no military targets anywhere near the residential area of Tripoli that was hit early on Sunday.

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