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WORLD NEWS Monday 14 May 2018

Bridge collapses into river

in Kashmir; 5 dead, 11 missing

By ROSHAN MUGHAL
Associated Press
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan
(AP) — An old wooden
bridge over a fast-moving
river in Kashmir collapsed
In this April 26, 2017, file photo released by China's Xinhua News as dozens of students were
Agency, China's newly-built aircraft carrier Liaoning is trans- taking pictures on it, lead-
ferred from dry dock into the water at a launch ceremony at a ing to at least five deaths
shipyard in Dalian. on Sunday.
Associated Press Javed Ayub, a senior tour-
China's first home- ism Pakistani-administered Pakistani rescue workers search for bodies at the site of bridge
department
official
in
Kashmir, said 14 students
built aircraft carrier were rescued after the collapse in Kundal Shahi, some 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of
Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani controlled Kashmir, Sun-
bridge collapsed and that
day May 13, 2018.
civil and military rescue
Associated Press
begins sea trials teams were searching for as the water flow is very ter for medical aid. He said
11 others.
Ayub said rescue workers high," said Ayub. the incident took place
recovered the bodies of Ayub said the hanging near the picnic point of
BEIJING (AP) — China's first maritime safety bureau five drowned students. The wooden bridge was de- Kundal Shahi, some 75 ki-
entirely home-built aircraft issued an order for ship- students, most in their early signed for locals to use in lometers (approx. 47 miles)
carrier began sea trials Sun- ping to avoid a section of 20s, were enrolled in the small numbers. "The touring north of Muzaffarabad, the
day in a sign of the growing ocean southeast of the city medical college at Fais- youths have not realized capital of Pakistani Kash-
sophistication of the coun- between Sunday and Fri- alabad in eastern Punjab the danger despite a warn- mir.
try's domestic arms industry. day. province. ing board asking people The Neelum Valley is a pop-
The still-unnamed ship left The 50,000-ton carrier will He said some students from not to overload the old ular tourist destination in
dock in the northern port of likely be formally commis- a college in Lahore were structure," he said. the Pakistan-administered
Dalian at 7:00 a.m. to "test sioned sometime before also among those who fell Police official Mohammad part of Kashmir.
the reliability and stability 2020 following the comple- into the river. Siddiq said eight of the res- Kashmir is split between
of its propulsion and other tion of sea trials and the "We hope for the best but cued students were injured Pakistan and India, both of
system," the Defense Minis- arrival of its full air comple- it will be unlikely to find the and airlifted to Muzaffar- which claim the Himalayan
try said in a statement. ment. remaining (students) alive abad in a military helicop- region in its entirety.q
The Liaoning provincial q