A compilation of brief news reports for Thursday, June 14, 2007.
A bomb blast during a soccer match at stadium in Pattani injured 14 police officers who were providing security for the game between two local teams.
Police said the bomb was placed inside a flower planter and detonated via cellphone, and that five officers were seriously injured.
Related
- “13 schools torched in southern Thailand” — Wikinews, June 14, 2007
Sources
- Agencies. “Soccer match bomb wounds 14” — Bangkok Post, June 14, 2007
- “Bomb at soccer injures five” — The Nation (Thailand), June 14, 2007
A 29-year-old man in Riau was confirmed today to have died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu, making him the 80th person in Indonesia to die from the virus.
“Before showing bird flu symptoms, he slaughtered and cooked sick chickens,” Muhammad Nadirin of the Health Ministry’s Bird Flu Center was quoted as saying by Kyodo News.
Indonesia has the highest number of human deaths from H5N1, and the highest number of cases at 100.
Sources
- Agence France-Presse. “Indonesia confirms 80th bird flu death” — Channel NewsAsia, June 14, 2007
- Kyodo News. “Indonesia bird flu cases top 100, death toll rises to 80” — Yahoo! News, June 14, 2007
An outbreak of H5N1, the avian flu virus, was reported today by a livestock official in Myanmar. He said about 1,000 chickens were slaughtered after the virus was found on June 3 in 28 chickens on a farm in Bago, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Yangon.
It is the first outbreak of the bird flu in Myanmar, also known as Burma, since April.
Sources
- Agence France-Presse. “Myanmar reports fresh outbreak of bird flu” — Channel NewsAsia, June 14, 2007
- Associated Press. “Burma reports new bird flu outbreak” — The Irrawaddy, June 13, 2007
Hamas has said that their forces have taken control of the main compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas located in Gaza City.
Abbas was not in the compound at the time.
Reports also say that Fatah members fled the compound just before it was attacked.
Sources
- “Report: Hamas forces take over Abbas’s compound” — Jerusalem Post, June 14, 2007
- “Hamas takes over presidential compound in Gaza City” — International Herald Tribune, June 14, 2007