Chichawatni, Pakistan– Three members of a suspected suicide bomb team died Saturday after their bike laden with explosives hit a bump outside a town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said. The men killed by the blast near Chichawatni were believed to have been on their way to attack a prayer meeting for a policeman killed
A man skating on Donner Lake apparently drowned after falling through the ice, police said. Witnesses said the man fell through a hole in the ice about 100 yards from the Sierra Nevada lake’s north shore. But a search by divers from the Truckee police and fire departments failed to find a body, Police Lt.
The body of a woman last seen at a produce plant in Arizona was found dead in a lettuce truck at a distribution center near Des Moines, police said. Sheila Kay Ross, 47, evidently was accidentally pinned inside the truck while it was being loaded, Dr. John Kraemer of the Iowa medical examiner’s office said.
Bakersfield–A man doused himself with flammable liquid and set himself afire, apparently to protest a school district’s decision to change the names of winter and summer breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation. The man suffered first and third degree burns on his shoulders and arms, Fire Department Capt. Garth Milam said. He had a sign
Possibly in response to these weekly Sudden Death columns, our friends at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have culled various warning labels from products that will help stop the needless death of the foolish… On a blanket: “Not to be used in a tornado.” On a fishing lure with a three-pronged hook: “Harmful if swallowed.” On