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At least 13 people have been injured in South Korea when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people near a subway station in the city of Seongnam SEOUL, South Korea -- At least 13 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday when a man rammed a car onto a sidewalk and then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people near a subway station in the city of Seongnam. Yoon Sung-hyun, an official from the southern Gyeonggi provincial police department, said at least nine people were stabbed and four others were injured by the vehicle. Police did not confirm whether any were in serious condition. Police were questioning an unidentified suspect who was arrested at the scene. In response to the attack, the National Police Agency said it would hold an online meeting later Thursday with regional police chiefs to discuss ways to deal with stabbings and other attacks against random targets. Last month, a knife-wielding man stabbed a...

Railway officials say the death toll from a train derailment in southern Pakistan has risen to at least 30, with more than 60 others injured MULTAN, Pakistan -- A train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 60 others, officials said. Rescue operations were underway. Ten cars of a Rawalpindi-bound train derailed and some overturned, near the Pakistani town of Nawabshah, trapping many passengers, said senior railway officer Mahmoodur Rehman Lakho. Local television showed rescue teams extracting women, children and elderly passengers from damaged and overturned cars. Some of the injured were lying on the ground crying for help while locals gave out water and food. AP photos showed derailed train cars sprawled across or near the tracks. Senior police officer Abid Baloch said from the scene of the accident that 30 bodies had been recovered while more than 60 people were injured , some critically. He added that the death toll may rise as r...

Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested a man on suspicion of slashing three people on a train in western Japan TOKYO -- Japanese police said Monday that they have arrested a man on suspicion of slashing three people on a train in western Japan. The 37-year-old suspect was carrying three knives, including two in each hand, when he was arrested on the platform of Rinku Town station in Osaka, western Japan, immediately after the alleged attack Sunday, according to police in Izumisano City. The injured — a train conductor in his 20s and two male passengers aged 23 and 79 — were taken to nearby hospital for treatment. Their injuries were not life-threatening, police said. After an emergency call from another passenger, four police rushed to the station just after the train arrived and the suspect holding the knives got off. The suspect ignored police order to drop the knives. One officer knocked down the weapons with a stick and officers seized him, police said. The suspect...

A fire that broke out in a Milan nursing home during the night has killed six residents MILAN -- A fire that broke out in a Milan nursing home early Friday killed six of the residents and injured about 80 others, Italian firefighters said. Firefighters said the blaze began about 1:30 a.m., apparently in the room of two female residents , who were among the dead. Also dead were three other women and a man. Among the injured , two were in critical condition, while most of the others were being treated for smoke inhalation, firefighters told Italian state radio. Luca Cari, a spokesperson for Italy’s national firefighters corps, said firefighters were investigating the cause of the blaze, which was contained by early morning. Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, who came to the scene, told reporters that the 100 or so residents of the nursing home who weren’t injured were being transferred to other facilities in the northern Italian city. People who lived nearby told state radio that they saw peo...