BBC News:国际红十字7名人员在叙利亚遭绑架
The International Committee of the Red Cross says that seven of its workers have beenabducted in northwestern Syria, it's not clear who carried out the kidnapping. Jim Muir reports.
An International Red Cross spokesman said the abduction happed when a convoy of four clearlymarked ICRC vehicles was intercepted by gunman near Saraqeb in the northwestern province ofIdlib. All seven of the personnel on the convoy were taken away. The spokesman couldn'tconfirm Syrian state media reports that the convoy had been shot at. He said they had had nodirect contact so far with kidnapped personnel or with the abductors. It's not known who mighthave been responsible for the abduction, hardline Islamist rebel groups are known to operate inthe area.
Syria's official state news agency says there has been a double car bomb in the central of thecapital Damascus, it said two cars driven by suicide attackers blew up close to the headquartersof the Syrian state broadcasting cooperation causing minor damage to the building. Statetelevision said a number of passer-by had been wounded in the blasts.
Police in Russia say they have arrested about 200 people who were vandalizing a shoppingcentre in the south of Moscow. Thousands of people started rioting during a protest againstthe killing of an ethnic Russian man in front of his girl friend allegedly by a migrant from theCaucasus. Steve Rosenburg reports from the Russian capital.
The demonstration began peacefully, but it is soon turned violent. Protesters stormed ashopping center, smashing windows and then overran a vegetable warehouse, searching formigrant workers. There were chants of Russia for the Russians and white power. Riot policemoved in, there were clashes and hundreds of people were detained. The violence reflectsgrowing Russian nationalism and growing tension between ethnic Russians and migrant workersfrom the Caucasus region and from former Soviet Republics.
Indian officials said at least 91 people have been killed during a stampede at the Hindu festival.More than a hundred people have been treated in hospital for injuries.
