BHAKTAPUR, APR 09 - A person died and two others injured after they were crushed by the wheel of a huge chariot during the annual Bisket Jatra festival in Bhaktapur on Monday. The identity of the deceased has not been established. The ill-fated celebrant, who was critically injured after he was crushed, was initially rushed to Bhaktapur Hospital for treatment from where he was referred to Maharajgunj Hospital. But he breathed his last on the way to Maharajgunj. One Prajwal Maka, 19, of Chashukhel Bhaktapur, and Prem Silpakar, 27, have been injured in the incident. Maka has been receiving medial attention at Bhaktapur hospital and Silpakar has been undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Medical hospital. Two huge wooden chariots are hauled by dozens of Bhaktapur residents through the city as part of the festival that is celebrated on the eve of Nepali New year. Source:ekantipur.com

NEPALGUNJ, APR 06 -A mother and her four years old daughter have been killed when hit by a truck on Thursday night. According to police, the accident took place nearby Nepalgunj Police Training Center at around 6.30 last night. The deceased have been identified as Madhuri Mishra, 20, of Karkado-20 and her daughter Madhu. Madhuri died on the spot and her daughter breathed her last while undergoing treatment at Nepalgunj Nursing Home at around 12.30 last night. They were hit by the truck (Na 2 Kha 9274) heading for Kohalpur from Nepalgunj, police said. Meanwhile, police have impounded the truck and arrested its driver Baburam Buda, 24, of Dhanwang Kimichour-1 of Salyan. source:wwww.ekantipur.com

JHAPA, APR 04 -Unidentified men murdered a journalist in Jhapa district mid night Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Yadav Poudel, 40, Jhapa correspondent of Avenues Television. According to police, Poudel was stabbed in his neck in a hotel at Birtamod Bus Park. Poudel, resident of Southa VDC, Morang was temporarily residing in Birtamod and was active in journalism. He was also working at Rajdhani Dainik and was sub-editor of local Mechi Times Dainik. Police have detained a dozen for the investigation. Meanwhile, an emergency meeting of the Federation of Nepali Journalist (FNJ) is underway in the Capital following the incident. Source: ekantipur.com

RAJBIRAJ , APR 03 -A fire that broke out in Badebasain VDC, Saptari on Monday night gutted property worth one million rupees.

Four houses including two houses of Ramrati and two that of neighbour Bijalai Ram were completely destroyed in the fire that spread suddenly from the kitchen room of Ramrati Ram, a local of Badebasain-9.

The fire gutted cash, jewelries, clothes, rice, paddy and other food grains inside the home, said victims. Locals and police joined hands to douse the fire, police office said. RSS

CALIFORNIA, APR 03 - A gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three others after telling former classmates to "get in line ... I'm going to kill you all."

A suspect in what was the deadliest U.S. school shooting in five years was later arrested at a shopping mall several miles away from the scene of the shooting at Oakland's Oikos University, which appears to cater largely to the area's Korean community.

The school's founder, Pastor Jong Kim, told the Oakland Tribune newspaper that the gunman had been a nursing student there, but was no longer enrolled.

Authorities did not immediately offer a motive for the rampage, but said they believed the gunman had acted alone.

Witnesses said he entered a reception area of the college at mid-morning and opened fire before walking into one of two classes in session and spraying the room with bullets.

Paul Singh, whose 19-year-old sister Devinder Kaur was shot in the arm during Monday's rampage, told Reuters that according to his sister, the man was a former student at the college who showed up to class for the first time in four months.

"'Get in line and I'm going to kill you all,' is what he said this morning, my sister told me. They thought he was joking at first,'" Singh said.

Tashi Wangchuk said his wife, 28-year-old Dechen Yangzom, was in the second classroom. Wangchuk said she turned off the lights and locked the door when she heard gunfire.

"The guy came and banged on the door and shot several rounds at the door and then he left," Wangchuk told Reuters.

Oakland police spokesman Johnna Watson said seven people had been killed and three others wounded.

It was the deadliest outburst of gun violence at a U.S. school since a Virginia Tech student shot and killed 32 people and himself in a 2007 massacre on that campus.

Images from local TV stations showed frightened students and staff running from the school, located in a light industrial area near Oakland International Airport, as police and SWAT teams carrying assault rifles surrounded the area.

'I'VE BEEN SHOT, I'VE BEEN SHOT'

Hours later, two bodies remained on a grassy area outside the school, covered by yellow plastic sheeting.

Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were on the scene, along with dozens of local police.

Angie Johnson, 52, told the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper she was doing errands nearby when she saw a young woman run from the college with a bloodied right arm, crying "I've been shot, I've been shot."

Johnson said the wounded woman told her the shooter was a man in her nursing class who shot one person at point blank range before spraying the room with bullets.

Nearby business were evacuated and shut down for the day as officers searched the school and surrounding area. A spokeswoman for nearby Highland Memorial Hospital declined to comment on the condition of the victims being treated there.

"As you may have heard, the suspected shooter in today's deadly shooting at Oikos University on Edgewater Drive is in custody, and it appears he acted alone," the city said in a brief statement.

"The surrounding area is still cordoned off, but police have advised that no imminent public safety threat appears to exist in the immediate area," it said.

The shooting came just over a month after a student gunman in Ohio opened fire in a high school cafeteria, killing three students in the deadliest shooting rampage at a U.S. high school in six years.

Oikos, which offers programs in theology, nursing, music and Asian medicine, describes itself on its website as having been started to provide the "highest standard education with Christian value and inspiration."

"The tragic loss of life at Oikos University today is shocking and sad," California Governor Jerry Brown said in a statement released through his office. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families and friends and the entire community affected by this senseless act of violence."

Source:ekantipur.com