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(12/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 11 on Friday near a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday confirmed 11 U.S. soldiers were killed this week in one of the worst days suffered by U.S. forces as a Washington panel said the training of Iraqi forces should quicken so troops can leave.

(11/06)

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Three more bodies were found on Friday near the scene of a gas pipeline explosion in Indonesia's East Java province which was linked to a devastating mudflow, pushing the overall death toll to 11.

(10/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eleven U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, in one of the sharpest spikes in attacks on American forces battling soaring sectarian violence and a Sunni Arab insurgency.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a television station in Baghdad on Thursday and shot dead 11 staff in the biggest attack yet on media in Iraq.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's security forces killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn clash in the island's restive east on Saturday, police said, as the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire grinds on despite peace talk pledges.

(9/06)

Somalian president escapes bomb, gunfire that kills 11 // BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - Somalian President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped a bomb on Monday that killed five people and wounded several others outside parliament in the provincial capital Baidoa.

(8/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces killed 11 Taliban militants in a clash in the south on Monday while a bomb blast in the capital wounded four NATO soldiers, officials said.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi police shot dead 11 militants in an exchange of fire in the country's northern Pabna district on Thursday, police said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man stabbed to death 10 people, including six children, in an attack on his wife's family before killing himself by drinking pesticide, state media said.

MAALOT, Israel (Reuters) - Hizbollah rockets killed eight people in northern Israel on Thursday and three Israeli soldiers died in combat in southern Lebanon, the highest number of Israeli dead since fighting began on July 12.

(7/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Storms in southwest China's Yunnan province have killed 11 people, adding to a trail of havoc from heavy rains lashing parts of the country, state media reported on Monday.

(6/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A landslide in a village in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has killed 11 people and injured six others, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people inside a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, police said, a day after the national security adviser said al Qaeda's days are numbered in Iraq.

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli missile strike on a van in Gaza carrying militants and rockets killed 11 Palestinians, nine of them civilians, on Tuesday in the deadliest such attack in nearly four years.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 11 college students after stopping a bus in Baghdad and kidnapped up to 50 transport company employees in the Iraqi capital on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said.

(5/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb apparently planted in a bus killed 11 laborers traveling to work in a volatile area north of Baghdad on Monday, police sources said.

SUWAYRA, Iraq (Reuters) - The bodies of 11 Iraqis, including the headless corpse of a 10-year-old boy, were found dumped in the Tigris river south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a minibus near the Iraqi city of Baquba on Wednesday, killing 11 civilians in the volatile area northeast of Baghdad, police said.

(4/06)

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Police in southern India said they had shot dead 11 Maoist rebels, including six women, on Friday after the guerrillas attacked a jungle patrol.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a market in a town south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 23, police said.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes battered the nation's midsection on Friday, killing 11 people in central Tennessee in the second deadly tornado outbreak in the state this week, officials said.

(3/06)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eleven patients have died while taking Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept during a clinical trial, Japan's Eisai Co., which makes the medicine, said on Thursday.

(2/06)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A father and two sons shot dead 11 of their relatives and wounded six more in a family feud in the southern Iranian city of Jahrom, a judiciary official said on Saturday.

ENUGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Muslim and Christian mobs killed 11 people in three Nigerian cities on Friday, extending a week of tit-for-tat religious riots that have claimed at least 157 lives and injured more than 900.

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen in police uniforms seized 11 Sunni men suspected of being insurgents from a prison in the mainly Shi'ite city of Basra in southern Iraq on Wednesday and later killed them, police said.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed in South Africa when a bus left the road and crashed in a storm, the latest in a series of accidents to strike the country's bus companies, local media said on Wednesday.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Eleven school children drowned in Zanzibar on Wednesday when a huge wave capsized the boat they were playing in, police said.

(1/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police found the bodies of 11 young men, all blindfolded and shot in the head, in the back of a parked truck in western Baghdad on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 11 people in a shop selling sweets in the town of Iskindiraya south of Baghdad overnight, Iraqi police said on Sunday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded 50 in an attack in an Afghan provincial capital on Thursday during a visit by the U.S. ambassador, officials said. The envoy was unhurt.

(12/05)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Fuelling fears of a return to civil war, suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 11 soldiers in the island's far north on Tuesday in the second mine attack in less than a week, the military said.

(11/05)

DHAKA (Reuters) - Nine people were killed and 65 wounded by suspected suicide bombers in two Bangladesh cities on Tuesday, apparently the latest in a wave of attacks by militants fighting to turn the country into a sharia-based Islamic state.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eleven Iraqis were killed in three separate attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday and U.S. airstrikes destroyed three houses the military said were used by al Qaeda militants in western Iraq near the Syrian border.

(10/05)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a detention center at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Thursday, killing 11 people and injuring 15, Dutch media reported.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed in Haiti when record-breaking Tropical Storm Alpha brought torrential rain to the impoverished Caribbean country, officials and witnesses said on Monday.

(9/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces have surrounded a Taliban commander in a central province, an Afghan official said on Friday, after fighting in which the U.S. military said 10 insurgents and an Afghan soldier were killed.

KABUL (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed in clashes ahead of Sunday's Afghan elections and insurgents were caught trying to blow up a dam, but U.N. organizers said the polls were set to open countrywide in spite of Taliban threats.

(8/05)

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters killed a U.S. soldier and wounded another during an ambush in Afghanistan on Thursday, after the insurgents lost 10 men over the past two days in clashes elsewhere in the troubled southeast.

(7/05)

SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed and scores injured on Thursday in a second day of clashes between Yemeni security forces and rioters protesting fuel price increases.

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A double car bomb attack in central Iraq killed at least 11 people and wounded 19 late on Wednesday, police sources said.

(6/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a street in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad overnight, killing 11 people and wounding 29, police and hospital officials said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims north of Baghdad, killing 10 people in the latest attack by Iraqi insurgents on religious sects they disapprove of, officials said on Friday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber rammed his car into a building north of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 12, the U.S. military said on Friday.

(5/05)

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian Islamic militants with alleged links to al Qaeda killed 11 soldiers in the worst attack on government troops in months, newspapers reported on Monday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - A Haitian official on Monday called for international help and money to move thousands of people to safer homes before the looming hurricane season as weekend floods killed 11 in the capital.

YANGON (Reuters) - Three bomb blasts rocked the capital of military-ruled Myanmar on Saturday, killing 11 people and wounding 162 others in an attack the junta blamed on ethnic rebels and exiled political opponents.

(4/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb blast ripped through a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Baghdad on Friday, killing 11 people in the latest attack amid tensions between Iraq's Sunnis and majority Shi'ites.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents on Thursday shot down a Bulgarian commercial helicopter with 11 people on board, including six Americans, and then said they had captured and killed the sole survivor, a Bulgarian crew member. The Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter was hit by a rocket- propelled grenade as it flew over a deserted area north of Baghdad, Bulgarian officials and the U.S. military said. It was believed to be the first downing of a civilian aircraft in Iraq.

(3/05)

HANOI (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and around 200 injured when a north-south express train was derailed in central Vietnam on Saturday, officials said.

(2/05)

MANILA (Reuters) - Explosions in the business district of the Philippine capital and two southern cities on Monday killed at least 11 people and wounded nearly 130, with besieged Muslim rebels claiming two of the attacks.

(1/05)

GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed, six of them burned alive, in remote northern Pakistan on Saturday in violence that erupted after an attack on a minority Shi'ite Muslim leader, official and hospital sources said.

(12/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli drone fired a missile early on Friday morning, killing two Palestinian militants a day after Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Attackers armed with guns and machetes clashed with villagers over land in one of Ivory Coast's major cocoa growing regions early on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, a senior presidential source said.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops pulled out from a Gaza refugee camp on Saturday after killing 11 Palestinians, including militants, ending a raid which Israel said it launched in response to a series of mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded next to an army truck in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 27, officials said.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Floods in the home region of Indonesia's president have killed 11 people and forced thousands to flee their villages on the southern part of the country's main Java island, local media reported on Sunday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Separatist militants set off a powerful land mine in Indian Kashmir killing eleven people, including nine soldiers in one of the biggest guerrilla attacks in weeks, police said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a police station in southern Baghdad Friday, killing 11 policemen and wounding six, survivors of the attack said.

(11/04)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 65 injured when a strong earthquake shook Indonesia's Papua province Friday, collapsing buildings and starting fires, officials said.

HANOI (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by Typhoon Muifa have killed at least 11 people in central Vietnam, officials said on Saturday.

(10/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike aimed at foreign militants led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed 11 people in the Iraqi city of Falluja Friday and insurgents later said a British hostage held by Zarqawi's group had been beheaded.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali troops shot dead 11 Maoist rebels on Wednesday, as the government prepared a response to the latest terms for fresh talks by the guerrillas who shut down nearly half of the kingdom on the second day of a strike.

SDEROT, Israel (Reuters) - Palestinian militants eluding an army crackdown killed two Israeli children in a rocket attack from Gaza on Wednesday and troops killed nine Palestinians in raids in the coastal strip and the West Bank.

(9/04)

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces backed by warplanes battled insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 52 others, the U.S. military and Iraqi doctors said.

(8/04)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ten people were killed and 51 injured by a female suicide bomber in busy central Moscow on Tuesday evening, officials said.

SANAA (Reuters) - Followers of an anti-U.S. cleric ambushed and killed 11 Yemeni soldiers searching for them in a mountainous area of the Arab state, an official said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked a police station and voting centers in Russia's war-torn Chechnya, killing at least 11 people, Interfax news agency said Saturday.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Rescuers have given up hope of finding seven missing Czech, Russian and Ukrainian climbers lost after avalanches on a Kyrgyz mountain, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said on Monday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq accused al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Monday of carrying out coordinated car bombings at churches that killed at least 11 people, saying the militants wanted to drive Christians out of the country.

(7/04)

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eleven Afghans including a former district police chief were killed on Wednesday in an attack in the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike on a house in Falluja killed 11 Iraqis including women and children on Sunday, doctors said, in the latest of a series of attacks on buildings believed to be sheltering guerrillas and foreign militants.

(6/04)

KABUL (Reuters) - About 20 gunmen burst into a construction site in Afghanistan early on Thursday, killing 11 Chinese workers and wounding five, Chinese state media said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on foreigners in the country.

(5/04)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen separatist rebels killed 11 Russian soldiers and wounded five others in a double ambush in the restive province, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.

(4/04)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The number of people killed in an attack on an election rally in Indian Kashmir rose to 11 after seven died from their injuries overnight, officials said on Friday.

(3/04)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents shot dead 11 Iraqi police and police trainees in two separate, daylight attacks on Tuesday, the latest deadly strikes against Iraqis working with the U.S.-led occupation.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Seven Colombian policemen and four civilians they had arrested were killed on Saturday when an army patrol confused them with Marxist rebels in one of the country's worst incidents of friendly fire, the police said.

NEPAL -- A landmine exploded in central Nepal on March 16, killing 11 people in a car. Nepalese security forces said communist rebels were responsible for the attack. Rebels have maintained a weeklong blockade on roads traveling to Bhairahawa, Chitwan and Pokhara, the three major cities west of Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu.

ALMATY (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and more than a dozen are missing after a powerful mudslide swept away two houses in Kazakhstan's southeast early on Sunday, the Central Asian state's emergencies agency said.

(2/04)

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani troops opened fire on a van they thought was carrying Islamic militants on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a region where forces are hunting Osama bin Laden, officials said.

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers killed at least 11 Iraqis and wounded 58 foreign troops on Wednesday in twin attacks on a military base south of Baghdad in the run-up to a U.N. report on the feasibility of direct elections in Iraq.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Ten Muslim guerrillas and an Indian soldier were killed in a gun battle in Kashmir on Thursday, an army spokesman said, the highest toll in a shootout in the disputed region in months.

(1/04)

LONDON (Reuters) - Fire swept through a care home in Scotland on Saturday, killing at least 11 elderly residents, police said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - One minute, it was a quiet tree-lined street drenched in morning sunlight. The next, it was a nightmare of blood, screams and mangled bodies. A Palestinian suicide bombing on a crowded Israeli bus on Thursday again brought scenes of carnage to Jerusalem, a city that had been spared such attacks for more than four months. Ofer Mozes was walking nearby when the explosion ripped Bus Number 19 apart before his eyes, hurling body parts into the street and sending black smoke into the sky. At least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican police said on Tuesday they found 11 bodies at the home of a suspected leading drug trafficker in a violent city on the U.S. border and were searching for more victims.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Two overnight gunfights left 11 people dead in Brazil's crime-ridden city of Rio de Janeiro as it gears up for its famed Carnival next month, police said on Thursday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Eleven civilians, four children and three women among them, have been killed in U.S. bombing in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, its governor said Monday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed in militant attacks and gun battles in India's Kashmir region Saturday and Sunday, police said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A powerful blast at a privately owned fireworks plant in southern China has killed at least 11 people, the latest such accident reported in the run-up to the Chinese Lunar New Year.

(12/03)

HENSIES, Belgium (Reuters) - Eleven passengers were killed when a bus carrying mainly young people from Germany to France hit a highway crash barrier in southern Belgium and burst into flames early on Saturday, judicial sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops killed 11 Iraqi guerrillas who tried to ambush their force in a town north of Baghdad Monday, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

(11/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 11 Iraqis were killed, six of them shot dead by American troops, as the United States counted the cost Monday of the deadliest single strike on its forces since they invaded Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Eleven people died and thousands were taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a swarm of grasshoppers invaded a town in central Sudan, the government-owned Al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Saturday.

(9/03)

BOGOTA, Colombia - A bomb blew up outside an upscale nightclub in southwestern Colombia on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 48. The attack cast new doubt on President Alvaro Uribe's promises to crush a 39-year rebel insurgency.

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday U.S.-led forces had killed 11 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in the past three days, while local officials said a group of rebels was surrounded by troops.

(8/03)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (Reuters) - As many as 11 people were killed on Saturday in armed attacks on two public transport buses in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula that may have been the work of youth gangs, security officials said.

(7/03)

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Eleven Christian pilgrims died and 24 were seriously injured in Slovakia on Sunday when their bus rolled backwards down a hill and somersaulted into a chasm, police said.

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Mortar bombs and heavy gunfire killed at least 11 people, including a pregnant woman, in Liberia's capital Friday as Nigerian peacekeepers said they would deploy in the war-battered country Monday.

(3/03)

BOMBAY (Reuters) - Police stepped up security across the Indian financial capital Bombay on Friday after a bomb blast ripped through a packed commuter train, killing 11 people, police said.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Reuters) - Eleven soldiers were killed and two injured the crash of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training flight in northern New York state, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

MAPUTO (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone battering southern Mozambique has killed 11 people and severed coastal roads in the storm-weary African country, officials said on Friday.

(2/03)

LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed at a bogus roadblock in a hamlet 25 miles west of Algiers on Tuesday night, Algerian Radio reported.

(1/03)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Eleven people including a mother and her son were killed on Saturday in separate gun battles in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, officials said.

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Eleven civilians were killed by Ivory Coast's army in a helicopter attack across a cease-fire line on Tuesday, truce monitors from the former colonial power France said on Wednesday.

(12/02)

ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish bus plunged off an icy bridge Monday, killing at least 11 passengers, the Anatolian news agency said. The accident in the central province of Yozgat left a further 20 passengers injured, it said.

BUREIJ, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships swept into the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday, sparking a gunbattle and killing 10 people, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. In the West Bank, Israeli troops killed an Islamic Jihad militant in an exchange of fire during a raid of a village near Jenin late on Friday, Palestinian medical sources said.

(11/02)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded on Saturday in separatist clashes in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers in a car blew themselves up at a Kenyan hotel, killing eight other people in an attack on Thursday near the port city of Mombasa, police said.

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Nearly 200 fishermen remained missing two days after a cyclone lashed eastern India and Bangladesh and there were at least 11 confirmed dead, officials said Thursday.

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian troops on Tuesday killed 11 leftist rebels of the National Liberation Army, the country's second-largest guerrilla force, in clashes in a mountain area in the northeast, the military said.

(10/02)

DENISON, Iowa (Reuters) - Workers at a grain elevator in Iowa discovered what appeared to be the decomposed bodies of 11 people in a rail car that came across the border from Mexico four months ago, police and immigration officials said on Tuesday.

(9/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near a crowded bus stop in the capital of separatist Chechnya Monday, killing 11 people -- mostly women and children -- and injuring many others, Russian television said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Fierce wind and heavy rain killed 11 people, toppled homes and uprooted trees in southeast China but Typhoon Sinlaku was weakening as it churned inland on Sunday, officials and state media said.

(6/02)

KARACHI (Reuters) - A car bomb outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi killed at least 11 Pakistanis on Friday, less than a day after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left the country, police said.

(5/02)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 11 people, including two policemen, have been killed in a shootout between police and an armed gang in the state of Sinaloa in northern Mexico, Notimex news agency reported on Saturday.

(4/02)

TULKARM, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli army fanned out in the West Bank on Monday in its drive to isolate Yasser Arafat, entering another town and advancing troops toward others as Palestinian gunmen killed 11 suspected collaborators.

(3/02)

TULKARM (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft fought their way into two Palestinian refugee camps on Thursday, defying U.S. pressure to end an offensive that has increased fears of all-out war. Eleven Palestinians died in the latest violence, in which Israeli gunboats and warplanes renewed assaults on Palestinian security targets after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to strike relentlessly until the Palestinians begged for a truce.

(12/01)

BEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion in an unlicensed coal mine in central China has killed 11 people, just two months after local officials were criticized for their slowness in shutting illegal mines, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

(1/01)

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed and a dozen wounded Tuesday in a gun battle which erupted after separatist militants tried to storm the high security airport at Srinagar in Indian Kashmir, police said.

(12/00)

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least 11 people were hacked to death as Christian sects waged a machete battle at a remote shrine in the Philippines, army officials said Friday.

(10/00)

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Eleven people died and 35 were injured Monday when a packed passenger bus plunged down the side of a hill in northeastern Brazil, local police said.

(5/00)

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) -- A fire broke out Wednesday at a shipbreaking yard in southern Bangladesh, killing 11 people and seriously injuring 50 others, police and firefighters said. A blowtorch used by workers dismantling an oil tanker is believed to have ignited the fire at the Shitalpur Yard in Sitakunda, 10 miles north of the port city of Chittagong, a police officer said.

JAKARTA, May 26 (Reuters) - Fresh religious violence has erupted in Indonesia's strife-torn spice islands, claiming at least 11 lives, the official Antara news agency reported on Friday. Newspapers said the death toll from violence on Thursday near the town of Galela on the island of Halmahara could be much higher.

ROGBERI JUNCTION, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Sierra Leonean soldiers today discovered the mutilated corpses of what appeared to be Zambian U.N. peacekeepers, a discovery that could throw negotiations over the fate of hundreds of captive U.N. personnel into turmoil. // But U.N. officials cautioned that an investigation would be necessary to see if the corpses -- which Sierra Leonean soldiers said could number as many as 11 -- are actually the bodies of peacekeepers.

(3/00)

NIEDERNSILL, Austria (AP) -- An Alpine avalanche as wide as five football fields buried skiers underneath tons of snow Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, rescue officials said. Ten people were found dead in the area of the huge snow slide south of Salzburg, and one other died after being hospitalized. Two others were able to free themselves while rescuers dug out a third survivor, state television said in its evening newscast.

(2/00)

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai military helicopter crashed in the western province of Kanchanaburi on Friday shortly after take off from an army base, killing all 11 people on board, a military spokesman said.

(10/99)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The death toll from heavy storms in central and southern Vietnam over the weekend has risen to 11, local government officials said today. Nine people were killed by flooding in the central province of Quang Binh, said Nguyen Ngoc Dien of the local flood and storm control committee.

(7/99)

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Beirut was without power and residents in northern Israel huddled in bomb shelters today during the heaviest fighting between Israel and Lebanon in three years. The attacks killed nine Lebanese, two Israelis and wounded at least 57 others.

Demand for air conditioning tightened supplies of electricity today as a heat wave that's blamed for at least 11 deaths in the past week covered much of the eastern half of the nation.

(3/99)

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- A cart attached to a tractor overturned Sunday in northwestern India, killing at least 11 people and injuring 40 others, the United News of India news agency said.

(2/99)

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- A small commercial passenger plane crashed today in Papua New Guinea, killing all 11 people aboard, including two infants. Colin Bubner, managing director of Airlink, which operated the aircraft, said the 10 passengers and the pilot of the twin-engine Britten Norman Islander plane all died.

(9/98)

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A grenade fired by government forces killed 11 members of an ethnic Albanian family fleeing fighting in the rebellious Serbian province of Kosovo, an Albanian group said today. Eight of the dead were children.

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