A round-up of other world news in brief
Ten soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL – Ten servicemen with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan were killed in separate incidents yesterday, the alliance said.
Two foreign civilians working for an American security company contracted to help train Afghan police were also killed in a Taliban suicide raid on a camp in Kandahar, officials said.
It was one of the deadliest days in months for foreign troops fighting the Taliban.
Five service members died from the same improvised explosive device (IED) attack in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance said. Two died in an IED blast and a third in another bomb attack in the south.
Two servicemen were killed by small arms fire in separate incidents in the south and east. – (Reuters)
Death of Cable
LONDON – Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable was found dead at his home in Wales yesterday.
Cable was a founding member of the Welsh rock band, which rose to fame in the 1990s, but left in 2003 and pursued a career in media, presenting a rock show on BBC Radio Wales, as well as forming a new band, Killing for Company.
Police said cause of death has not yet been established. – (Reuters)
Toll rises to seven from US tornado
COLUMBUS – The death toll from a tornado in the US has risen to at least seven after storms unleashed a “war zone” of destruction in northwest Ohio.
The tornado destroyed dozens of homes and an emergency services building, it collapsed a cinema roof in Illinois and ripped siding off a building at a Michigan nuclear plant, forcing a shutdown.
But the worst was largely reserved for a seven-mile strip southeast of Toledo now littered with wrecked vehicles, splintered wood and family possessions.
The tornado ripped the roof and back wall off Lake High School’s gymnasium. Two buses were tossed on their sides and another was thrown about 50 yards, landing on its top near the high school’s football field.
– (AP)