22 hurt in France building blaze
Toulouse (France): Twenty-two people were injured, two seriously, when a fire swept through an apartment building in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, the fire service told AFP on Thursday. Part of the four-storey building collapsed and guests from a neighbouring hotel were also evacuated, said fire lieutenant-colonel Sylvain Gergaud. “The fire spread very quickly through the lift shift,” he said. Two firemen were among the casualties.
Nepali women, 2 sons die in menstruation hut
Kathmandu: A 35-year-old Nepali woman and her two sons have died reportedly due to suffocation after they spent a night in a windowless hut as part of a banned practice that considers women untouchable during menstruation, according to a media report. The incident happened in Nepal’s Bajura district when Amba Bohora, who was on the fourth day of her period, on Tuesday night had dinner with her two sons aged 9 and 12 and later went to the hut to sleep with a fire near to keep the hut warm, the Kathmandu Post reported.