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Morbi mishap: 140, including 25 children, die, 70 injured after suspension bridge collapses in Gujarat
The Morbi district administration has issued a helpline number (02822243300).

As many as 140 people have died after almost 400 people fell into the Machchhu river when a cable suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi at around 6:30 pm on Sunday.
At least 70 people were injured in the mishap. There are 25 children among the deceased. 170 people have been rescued.
This 143-year-old bridge was closed for 6 months. Recently it was repaired and was opened to the general public on October 25. As it was a Sunday, there was a huge crowd on the bridge. This is being said to be the reason for the accident.

The Morbi district administration has issued a helpline number (02822243300). Emergency wards have been set up at Morbi and Rajkot hospitals for the treatment of the injured. The NDRF officer engaged in the rescue said that he has seen so many deaths for the first time and that it was difficult for him and his team to find people in the muddy waters of the river. He feared that the bodies could be trapped under the bridge as well.
PM Modi gets emotional in Kevadia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kevadiya said that though he was in Ekta Nagar but his mind was with the victims of Morbi. “Rarely in my life, would I have experienced such pain. On one hand, there is a pain-riddled heart and on the other hand, there is the path to duty,” Modi said.
Some videos related to the accident are viral in social media. A video that broke many hearts showed people clinging on to the broken bridge, pleading for help.
After the accident, some survived by swimming to the shore and some were saved by the people present there. In a video some people were seen running with a dead body.
Video of boys shaking the bridge goes viral
The video, which is said to be of about hours before the accident, has gone viral on social media. In this, a large number of people are seen walking on the bridge. Some of them are seen shaking the cable bridge for fun. A few hours later, the bridge reportedly broke down.
It is being said that due to Sunday being a holiday, more people had gathered on the suspension bridge than the capacity. The crowd was also high due to Diwali holiday and being a Sunday. Why were people not stopped from going on the bridge, as their number was more than the capacity? This will be known only after the investigation of the accident. The cause of the accident is said to be due to overloading of the bridge.
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Videos show Amritpal Singh’s private militia Anandpur Khalsa Force in weapons training, target practice | WATCH

As the hunt for fugitive Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh continued for the seventh day today, videos of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief private militia christened ‘Anandpur Khalsa Force’ or AKF, have emerged on social media platforms.
Visuals doing the rounds on social media show the members of notorious Khalistan sympathizers private army donning body armor emblazoned with the AKF logo, undergoing weapons training in a forested area, which is reportedly a make-shift shooting range constructed in Amritpal Singh’s native village of Jallupur Khera.
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According to the Punjab Police, Amritpal’s former gunman, Tejinder Singh Gill alias Gorkha Baba, revealed during questioning that the ‘Waris Punjab De’ supremo ran a highly organized network to train recruits in his protection force, with extensive weapons training and target practice.
Tejinder told the police that Amritpal Singh had formed a private militia called the Anandpur Khalsa Force or AKF who underwent extensive arms training at a makeshift shooting range in the Jallupur Khera village.
Singh’s former bodyguard told the cops that AKF recruits underwent rigorous arms training and target practice and were accorded ranked as per their seniority.
Meanwhile, reports today claimed that the fugitive Khalistani may be headed for Delhi, a day after his last known location was traced to Haryana.
An NDTV report quoting sources said the security has been heightened across the national capital as its suspected that the notorious ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief may be headed to Delhi after last being spotted in Shahabad in Haryana’s Kurukshetra.
On Sunday, Amritpal Singh and his associate Papalpreet Singh, had stayed at Shahabad home of a woman identified as Baljeet Kaur, who was arrested yesterday, Punjab Police said.
A video with a time stamp of Monday, doing the rounds on the internet yesterday showed the fugitive Sikh preacher dressed in a white shirt and blue jeans, trying to hide his face with an umbrella as he was departing from the Baljeet Kaur’s house in Shahabad.
On Thursday, the Punjab Police arrested Amritpal Singh’s former gunman and notorious associate, Tejinder Singh aka Gorkha Baba.
A report quoted DSP Payal Harsimrat Singh of the Punjab Police as saying that Tejinder Singh, a resident of Punjab’s Mangewal village, was nabbed by the Khanna police.
A nation-wide crackdown was launched to nab Amritpal Singh after the dreaded Khalistani leader and his supporters armed with swords and guns, stormed a police station in Ajnala on the outskirts of Amritsar city last month and clashed with police for the release of one of his aides Lovepreet Singh.
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Salman Khan death threat email linked to UK number, cops say

The email ID through which a death threat was sent to Bollywood actor Salman Khan is linked to a UK-based mobile number, the Mumbai Police has said.
According to reports quoting sources in the Mumbai Police, the email ID from which the threat was made revealed that it was linked to a mobile number in the UK and efforts are underway to trace the person under whose name the number was registered.
Mumbai Police probing the threat e-mail case received by actor Salman Khan have found a British link.
Last week, gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldie Brar and Rohit Garg were booked under sections 506(2),120(b) and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a case registered at the Bandra Police Station for allegedly sending threatening emails superstar Salman Khan’s office.
Salman Khan is currently under a Y+ category security cover provided by the Mumbai Police; a step taken by the Maharashtra government after the superstar had received a similar death threat from Lawrence Bishnoi gang earlier.
A death threat letter was sent to Salman and his father Salim Khan last year, which was discovered by the Khans’ security team near the Bandra Bandstand promenade outside the actor’s Mumbai home where Salim goes for his routine morning run.
In October last year, the Delhi Police revealed that in the purported plan to assassinate Salman Khan, the member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang tried to befriend the staff of the actor’s farmhouse in Mumbai in a bid to ascertain the details about the timings of his entry and exit.
Earlier this week, security was tightened outside Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartments after he received a death threat via an email from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.
The email, reportedly sent by Rohit Garg, mentioned that Lawrence Bishnoi wants to meet Salman Khan in person. Bishnoi wants Salman Khan to apologize in public for killing blackbuck in 1998.
The e-mail stated Salman Khan must have seen the interview given recently to a news channel by Lawrence Bishnoi, and if not, he should see it. It further said if Khan wants to close the matter, he should talk face-to-face with Goldy bhai (Goldy Brar), adding there is still time but “agli bar, jhatka dekhne ko milega (next time you’ll have to face the music).”
Lawrence Bishnoi warned the actor that he would crush his ego sooner or later if he doesn’t apologize.
Lawrence Bishnoi is currently behind bars after was he arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 23 last year for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to recruit youth for carrying out terror attacks in Delhi and other parts of the country.
The notorious gangster is also suspected to be behind last year’s brutal gangster-style murder of popular Punjabi singer-rapper Sidhu Moosewala. Bishnoi is the prime suspect in Moosewala’s killing.
In a recent controversy, a Punjab-based news channel allegedly aired a live interview of Bishnoi from inside the Bathinda jail, however, the Punjab Prisons administration denied reports that the program was shot inside any prison in the AAP-ruled state.
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Massive fire breaks out on Garib Rath Express at Bihar’s Muzaffarpur junction
The flames were so intense that they spread to the coach as well.

A fire broke out in a Garib Rath Express’s compartment on Friday at the Muzaffarpur Junction in Bihar at around 1:45 pm. According to the reports, the train was supposed to depart for Anand Vihar Terminus at New Delhi at around 3 pm.
The fire emerged in the G-15 compartment of the train. The flames were so intense that they spread to the coach as well.
The fire brigade authorities team along with the fire tenders immediately rushed to the spot and started to douse the fire. Firefighters started the rescue operation and helped the passengers evacuate safely. There was chaos for a while but the fire was controlled in time and a major accident was averted.
Reportedly, train number 12211 Muzaffarpur-Anand Vihar Garib Rath Express had a halt at platform number 2 of the junction. Just when the authorities were planning to open the gate of the bogie, they saw smoke emitting out from the 6-15 bogie.
The vendor present at the station immediately informed the railway personnel. Soon, the firefighters reached the spot and extinguished the fire.
Reports suggest that no casualties due to the fire breakout had come to light. The cause of the fire is said to be a short circuit.
Earlier, a fire broke out in one of the coaches of a train running from Madhya Pradesh’s Betul to Chhindwara. As per initial reports, the fire initially broke out in one coach which later extended to the other two coaches of the train. The fire broke out at a time when the train was parked at the railway yard.
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