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Twenty-four people, mostly Christians, were killed and dozens more sickened after consuming toxic liquor on Christmas Eve in central Pakistan, police said Tuesday, the latest case of deadly alcohol poisoning in the conservative country.The incident happened in a Christian colony in Toba Tek Singh city, 338 kilometres (210 miles) south of Islamabad.
The toll from a deadly mine collapse in eastern India's Jharkhand state rose to 11 on Saturday with rescue workers searching for more bodies under the rubble.A massive mound of earth caved in late on Thursday at the Lalmatia open cast mine, around 390 kilometres from the state capital Ranchi.
Festival-goers were crushed, left gasping for air and unconscious during a chaotic crowd stampede at the Falls Festival in Lorne on Victoria's south-west coast, witnesses say.Paramedics treated about 80 people for various injuries with 20 taken to hospital for further treatment as a result of the crush, which occurred as festival-goers tried to leave a performance by Australian rock band DMA shortly before 11:00pm last night.
