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A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealands capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas in what a fire chief on Tuesday called his worst nightmare. Hipkins said the building was not currently safe for police to enter and it could take authorities some time to confirm the number of dead. Representative file image Fifty-two people in the Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington had been accounted for, but firefighters were still looking for others, said Wellington Fire and Emergency District Manager Nick Pyatt. He said they were called to the hostel at about 12:30 a.m. Also read: Former Marine surrenders, to be charged in fatal chokehold in New York subwayPrime Minister Chris Hipkins told the AM morning news program t stanley cupe hat he understood that six people were confirmed dead and the number of fatalities would likely rise. Police said they did not have an exact count of the number of dead, although they believe the total number of fatalities was less than 10. Hipkins stanley cup said the building was not currently safe for police to enter and it could take authorities some time to confirm the number of dead. It is an absolute tragedy. It is a horrific situation, the prime minister told reporters. In the fullness of time, of course, there will be a number of investigations about what has happened and why it happened. But for now, the focus clearly has t stanley cup o be on dealing with the situation. Responding to comments Uvst 17-yr-old girl shot dead by brother in suspected honour killing in Pakistan
US forces in Afghanistan have attacked networks of anti-China militants in an action that is likely to please Beijing, which had called for Western cooperation in its fight against a group it says wants to split off its Xinjiang region. US Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. AP File Photo The strikes in the northern province of Badakhshan destroyed Taliban training camps which support militant operations in Afghanistan as well as operations by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement ETIM in the border region with China and Tajikistan, Afghanistans NATO stanley deutschland -led mission said in a release on Thursday. The US strikes support Afghanistan in reassuring its neighbours that it is not a safe sanctuary for terrorists who want to carry out cross-border operations, it said. The force gave no more details about the attacks or any estimate of casualties but it said the ETIM was behind attacks both inside and outside China and two of its members had been involved in a 2002 plot to bomb the US Embassy in stanley cup Kyrgyzstan. They pose a threat to China and enjoy support from the Taliban in Badakhshan and throughout the border region, the force said. The group is drawn from members of Chinas mostly Muslim Uighur minority, who speak a Turkic language and live in Xinjiang in stanley thermos Chinas far west. In Beijing, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said he did not have information about the issue, but that fighting ETIM was a core c
A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealands capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas in what a fire chief on Tuesday called his worst nightmare. Hipkins said the building was not currently safe for police to enter and it could take authorities some time to confirm the number of dead. Representative file image Fifty-two people in the Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington had been accounted for, but firefighters were still looking for others, said Wellington Fire and Emergency District Manager Nick Pyatt. He said they were called to the hostel at about 12:30 a.m. Also read: Former Marine surrenders, to be charged in fatal chokehold in New York subwayPrime Minister Chris Hipkins told the AM morning news program t stanley cupe hat he understood that six people were confirmed dead and the number of fatalities would likely rise. Police said they did not have an exact count of the number of dead, although they believe the total number of fatalities was less than 10. Hipkins stanley cup said the building was not currently safe for police to enter and it could take authorities some time to confirm the number of dead. It is an absolute tragedy. It is a horrific situation, the prime minister told reporters. In the fullness of time, of course, there will be a number of investigations about what has happened and why it happened. But for now, the focus clearly has t stanley cup o be on dealing with the situation. Responding to comments Uvst 17-yr-old girl shot dead by brother in suspected honour killing in Pakistan
US forces in Afghanistan have attacked networks of anti-China militants in an action that is likely to please Beijing, which had called for Western cooperation in its fight against a group it says wants to split off its Xinjiang region. US Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. AP File Photo The strikes in the northern province of Badakhshan destroyed Taliban training camps which support militant operations in Afghanistan as well as operations by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement ETIM in the border region with China and Tajikistan, Afghanistans NATO stanley deutschland -led mission said in a release on Thursday. The US strikes support Afghanistan in reassuring its neighbours that it is not a safe sanctuary for terrorists who want to carry out cross-border operations, it said. The force gave no more details about the attacks or any estimate of casualties but it said the ETIM was behind attacks both inside and outside China and two of its members had been involved in a 2002 plot to bomb the US Embassy in stanley cup Kyrgyzstan. They pose a threat to China and enjoy support from the Taliban in Badakhshan and throughout the border region, the force said. The group is drawn from members of Chinas mostly Muslim Uighur minority, who speak a Turkic language and live in Xinjiang in stanley thermos Chinas far west. In Beijing, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said he did not have information about the issue, but that fighting ETIM was a core c