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A police jeep escorting Priyanka Gandhi's cavalcade here Saturday lost control and hit a green Qualis that is said to be Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's favourite vehicle, party officials said. The Qualis was the one in which Priyanka had driven her brother around his parliamentary constituency Friday.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in north-east China trapped 139 workers early Saturday, local media reported.

Eight people were killed Friday as they were caught in high velocity winds near the snow-capped Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh, an official said. Seven of the victims were from Jharkhand.

At least eight people were killed Friday as high velocity icy winds lashed Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, an official said.

The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) Thursday introduced 20 of its new low-floor buses on its service between Noida and Delhi. However, one of them had an accident on the first day itself.

Rescue workers Saturday started search operations to retrieve the bodies of eight people who were buried in the snow near the Rohtang Pass as strong icy winds lashed Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district Friday, an official said.

A serious fire destroyed 106 homes in a poor neighbourhood in Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador.

Four people were killed and one seriously injured when a train rammed into a tractor-trolley on the outskirts of the state capital early Friday, officials said.

Nearly a dozen passengers were injured when six coaches of a passenger train derailed Thursday night after Maoist rebels blew up a stretch of railway track in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, a railway official said.

Passengers of an intercity train in Orissa had a providential escape after one coach went off the tracks at Baghuapada station in Jajpur district. There were no casualties, officials said.