Tag: orang asli

  • 5.5-magnitude quake hits China’s Xizang

    LHASA, May 12 – A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Lazi County in Xigaze City in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region at 5:11 a.m. Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CNEC).

    The epicenter was monitored at 28.91 degrees north latitude and 87.54 degrees east longitude. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km, the CENC said.

    Local authorities in Lazi County told Xinhua that the quake was strongly felt, waking some residents.

    Following the earthquake, the county promptly initiated response measures, with its townships assessing the impact. Fire and rescue teams from Lazi County have been dispatched to the epicenter.

    As of now, information on building collapses and casualties is still being gathered.

    XINHUA

  • 8 terbunuh, berpuluh-puluh cedera ketika bas terjunam dari tebing di wilayah tengah Sri Lanka

    COLOMBO, 11 Mei – Lapan orang terbunuh dan lebih 30 lagi cedera apabila sebuah bas terjunam dari tebing di Kotmale, yang terletak di wilayah tengah Sri Lanka, pada pagi Ahad, kata polis.

    Lima daripada yang maut adalah lelaki dan yang lain wanita, kata polis.

    Mereka yang cedera telah dimasukkan ke hospital serantau untuk rawatan, kata polis.

    Polis telah melancarkan siasatan berhubung punca kemalangan itu.

    Kemalangan jalan raya kerap berlaku di Sri Lanka, dengan data rasmi menunjukkan bas sering terlibat.

    XINHUA

  • 8 killed, dozens injured as bus plunges off cliff in Sri Lanka’s Central Province

    COLOMBO, May 11 – Eight people were killed and over 30 others injured when a bus plunged off a cliff in Kotmale, located in Sri Lanka’s Central Province, on Sunday morning, police said.

    Five of the deceased are men and the others are women, police said.

    The injured have been admitted to regional hospitals for treatment, police said.

    Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.

    Road accidents are frequent in Sri Lanka, with official data showing that buses are often involved.

    XINHUA

  • Pakistan, India setuju gencatan senjata berkuat kuasa serta-merta

    ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, 10 Mei – Pakistan dan India mengumumkan pada Sabtu, mereka bersetuju dengan gencatan senjata.

    Pengumuman itu dibuat selepas empat hari serangan tentera antara satu sama lain.

    Timbalan Perdana Menteri Pakistan dan Menteri Luar Ishaq Dar berkata pada Sabtu, Pakistan dan India telah bersetuju dengan gencatan senjata berkuat kuasa serta-merta.

    “Pakistan sentiasa berusaha untuk keamanan dan keselamatan di rantau ini, tanpa menjejaskan kedaulatan dan integriti wilayahnya,” kata Dar.

    Dia berkata, selepas peningkatan ketegangan dan aktiviti ketenteraan baru-baru ini di kedua-dua pihak, beberapa negara, termasuk AS, Turki, dan Arab Saudi, telah berhubung dengan Pakistan.

    Usaha diplomatik sedang dijalankan sepanjang hari, berikutan perjanjian gencatan senjata dicapai, tambahnya.

    Sementara itu, Setiausaha Luar India Vikram Misri berkata pada Sabtu, kedua-dua negara bersetuju untuk mematuhi gencatan senjata dan menamatkan tindakan ketenteraan di sempadan dan Garis Kawalan (LoC) mereka.

    “Pakistan (Ketua Pengarah Operasi Ketenteraan, atau DGMO) menghubungi DGMO India pada 15:35 waktu tempatan petang ini. Ia telah dipersetujui antara mereka bahawa kedua-dua pihak akan menghentikan semua tembakan dan tindakan ketenteraan di darat, di udara dan laut berkuat kuasa dari 17:00 waktu tempatan hari ini. Arahan telah diberikan kepada kedua-dua pihak untuk menguatkuasa kepada persefahaman ini di New Delhi,” kata Misri.

    Menurut Misri, DGMO akan berbincang semula pada 12 Mei jam 12:00 waktu tempatan.

    Pada Rabu, India melancarkan serangan udara ke atas sasaran Pakistan untuk membalas dendam terhadap pembunuhan 26 orang oleh lelaki bersenjata bulan lalu di bandar Pahalgam, kira-kira 89 km ke timur Srinagar, ibu kota musim panas Kashmir yang dikuasai India.

    Keadaan di sepanjang LoC yang membahagikan Kashmir menjadi tegang apabila tentera India dan Pakistan yang ditempatkan di kedua-dua belah garisan gencatan senjata terlibat dalam berbalas tembakan dan artileri.

    XINHUA

  • Pakistan, India agree on ceasefire with immediate effect

    ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 10 – Pakistan and India announced on Saturday that they agreed on a ceasefire.

    The announcement came following four days of military strikes on each other.

    Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday that Pakistan and India have agreed on a ceasefire with immediate effect.

    “Pakistan has always strived for peace and security in the region, without compromising on its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Dar said.

    He said that after the recent escalation and military activities on both sides, several countries, including the U.S., Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, were in contact with Pakistan.

    Diplomatic efforts were underway throughout the day, following which a ceasefire agreement was reached, he added.

    Meanwhile, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Saturday that the two countries agreed to observe a ceasefire and end military actions on their borders and Line of Control (LoC).

    “Pakistan (Director General of Military Operations, or DGMO) called the DGMO of India at 15:35 local time earlier this afternoon. It was agreed between them that both sides would stop all firing and military action on land, in the air and sea with effect from 17:00 local time today. Instructions have been given on both sides to give effect to this understanding,” Misri said at a press briefing in New Delhi.

    According to Misri, the DGMOs will talk again on May 12 at 12:00 local time.

    On Wednesday, India launched airstrikes on Pakistani targets to avenge last month’s killing of 26 people by gunmen in Pahalgam town, about 89 km east of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

    The situation along the LoC dividing Kashmir had been tense as troops of India and Pakistan deployed on both sides of the ceasefire line were engaged in an exchange of fire and artillery.

    XINHUA

  • 19 terbunuh dalam serangan dron di penjara di barat Sudan: sumber

    KHARTOUM, 10 Mei – Sekurang-kurangnya 19 banduan terbunuh dan lebih 45 lagi cedera dalam serangan dron menyasarkan sebuah penjara pusat di El Obeid di negeri Kordofan Utara, barat Sudan pada Sabtu, menurut sumber perubatan dan saksi mata.

    Sumber perubatan di Hospital El-Obeid, yang tidak mahu namanya disiarkan, memberitahu Xinhua, 19 mayat dan 45 yang cedera telah tiba di hospital, dan “jumlah mangsa dijangka meningkat”.

    Seorang saksi mata dekat bangunan penjara pusat memberitahu Xinhua, “tiga dron melancarkan sekitar lima peluru berpandu di penjara, dengan kira-kira tiga daripadanya secara langsung melanda bangunan dan tempat tinggal banduan”.

    Seorang lagi saksi berkata, “operasi menyelamat di dalam penjara masih diteruskan, dan jumlah yang maut dan cedera lebih tinggi daripada yang diumumkan”.

    Setakat ini, tiada sebarang kenyataan rasmi dikeluarkan berhubung kejadian itu.

    Pasukan Sokongan Pantas (RSF) separa tentera memperhebatkan serangan dronnya baru-baru ini di tapak tentera dan kemudahan utama di kawasan dikawal Angkatan Bersenjata Sudan (SAF), termasuk El Obeid.

    Media tempatan melaporkan RSF meneruskan serangan dronnya untuk hari ketujuh berturut-turut di Port Sudan pada Sabtu, yang telah menjadi pusat pentadbiran de facto negara itu sejak Mei 2023. RSF tidak mengulas mengenai laporan itu.

    Sudan terlibat dalam konflik dahsyat antara SAF dan RSF sejak pertengahan April 2023, yang telah meragut puluhan ribu nyawa, dengan jumlah sebenar tidak dapat disahkan. Pertubuhan Antarabangsa untuk Migrasi (IOM) menganggarkan lebih 15 juta orang terpaksa berpindah, di dalam dan luar Sudan.

    XINHUA

  • 19 killed in drone strike on prison in W. Sudan: sources

    KHARTOUM, May 10 – At least 19 inmates were killed and more than 45 others injured in a drone strike targeting a central prison in El Obeid in western Sudan’s North Kordofan State on Saturday, according to a medical source and eyewitnesses.

    A medical source at El-Obeid Hospital, who requested anonymity, told Xinhua that the 19 dead bodies and the 45 injured have arrived at the hospital, and that “the number of casualties is expected to rise.”

    An eyewitness near the central prison building told Xinhua that “three drones launched around five missiles at the prison, with about three of them directly striking the building and the inmates’ living quarters.”

    Another eyewitness said, “Rescue operations inside the prison are still ongoing, and the number of the dead and injured is higher than what has been announced.”

    So far, no official statement has been issued regarding the incident.

    The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified its drone attacks recently on military sites and key facilities in areas controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), including El Obeid.

    Local media reported that the RSF continued its drone attacks for the seventh consecutive day on Port Sudan on Saturday, which has become the de facto administrative center of the country since May 2023. The RSF has not commented on the report.

    Sudan has been embroiled in a devastating conflict between the SAF and the RSF since mid-April 2023, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives, with the exact toll unable to be verified. The International Organization for Migration estimates that over 15 million people have been displaced, both within Sudan and abroad.

    XINHUA

  • India, Pakistan serang satu sama lain dengan dron, peluru berpandu

    NEW DELHI, 10 Mei – Tentera India dan Pakistan pada Sabtu menyasarkan satu sama lain dengan dron dan peluru berpandu ketika keadaan semakin meruncing antara kedua-dua negara berjiran itu.

    Kerajaan India, pada taklimat medianya, menyalahkan Pakistan kerana “provokasi berterusan” di sepanjang sempadan barat India dan di Garis Kawalan (LoC) di Kashmir, dengan menggunakan kenderaan udara tempur tanpa pemandu, senjata jarak jauh, peluru berlegar dan jet pejuang untuk menyasarkan kawasan awam dan infrastruktur ketenteraan.

    “Tentera Pakistan juga melakukan pencerobohan udara menggunakan dron dan menembak senjata berkaliber berat di sepanjang LoC. Di sepanjang sempadan antarabangsa dan LoC, pencerobohan udara dan beberapa serangan gangguan juga telah dicuba dari Srinagar hingga Naliya di lebih 26 lokasi,” kata Komander Sayap Vyomika Singh kepada media semasa taklimat itu.

    “Terdapat juga beberapa serangan peluru berpandu berkelajuan tinggi yang disedari selepas jam 0140 (waktu tempatan) pada waktu malam di beberapa pangkalan udara di Punjab,” kata komander itu.

    Singh, mengakui bahawa tentera India melakukan serangan udara berketepatan ke atas pangkalan Tentera Udara Pakistan.

    Laporan mengatakan serpihan peluru berpandu, dron dan amunisi lain ditemui dari beberapa kawasan di Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat dan Kashmir yang dikawal oleh India.

    Penduduk di Srinagar dan Jammu di Kashmir yang dikuasai India berkata mereka mendengar letupan kuat pada waktu malam dan awal pagi Sabtu. Laporan yang sama mencurah-curah dari Punjab, Rajasthan dan Gujerat.

    Pihak berkuasa menguatkuasakan pemadaman letrik malam Jumaat merentasi beberapa bandar berdekatan kawasan sempadan berikutan serangan udara yang dijangkakan. Terdapat gangguan bekalan elektrik sepanjang malam.

    Sebuah akhbar tempatan, The Tribune, pada Sabtu berkata seorang pegawai kanan kerajaan tempatan dan seorang kanak-kanak adalah antara lima yang terbunuh dalam tembakan semalaman.

    Kematian baharu itu menjadikan angka kematian orang awam kepada 22, selain lebih 50 lagi cedera di Kashmir yang dikuasai India. Banyak juga rumah yang rosak.

    Kebuntuan tentera antara New Delhi dan Islamabad meletus berikutan serangan udara maut India ke atas sasaran di Pakistan dan Kashmir yang dikuasai Pakistan pada Rabu.

    India berkata, serangan itu sebagai tindak balas terhadap pembunuhan 26 orang oleh lelaki bersenjata bulan lalu di Kashmir yang dikuasai India.

    New Delhi menyalahkan Islamabad kerana menyokong lelaki bersenjata di sebalik serangan itu, satu pertuduhan dinafikan oleh Islamabad.

    XINHUA

  • India, Pakistan attack each other with drones, missiles

    NEW DELHI, May 10 – Militaries of India and Pakistan Saturday targeted each other with drones and missiles as the situation escalated between the two neighbors.

    The Indian government, in its media briefing, blamed Pakistan for “continued provocations” along India’s western border and on Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, by using unmanned combat aerial vehicles, long-range weapons, loitering munitions and fighter jets to target civilian areas and military infrastructure.

    “Pakistan military also resorted to air intrusions using drones and firing of heavy calibre weapons along the LoC. Along the international border and the LoC, air intrusions and several harassment attacks were also attempted from Srinagar till Naliya at more than 26 locations,” Wing Commander Vyomika Singh told media during the briefing.

    “There were also several high-speed missile attacks noticed subsequently after 0140 hours (local time) in the night at several air bases in Punjab,” said the commander.

    Singh, admitted that Indian forces carried out precision airstrikes on Pakistan Air Force bases.

    Reports said debris of missiles, drones and other munitions was recovered from several areas of Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat and the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

    Residents in Srinagar and Jammu in the Indian-controlled Kashmir said they heard loud explosions during the night and early Saturday morning. Similar reports are pouring in from Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

    Authorities enforced a blackout Friday night across multiple cities near border areas due to anticipated aerial attacks. There was a power outage all night.

    A local newspaper, The Tribune, on Saturday said a senior local government official and a toddler were among the five killed in overnight shelling.

    The fresh deaths have taken the civilian death toll to 22, besides over 50 other wounded in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. Many houses have also been damaged.

    A military standoff between New Delhi and Islamabad erupted following India’s deadly airstrikes on targets in Pakistan and the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday.

    India said the strikes were in response to last month’s killing of 26 people by gunmen in the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

    New Delhi blames Islamabad for supporting the gunmen behind the attack, a charge denied by Islamabad.

    XINHUA

  • Jet Pakistan musnahkan sistem pertahanan udara di Punjab India

    ISLAMABAD, 10 Mei – Pakistan berjaya menyasarkan dan memusnahkan sistem pertahanan udara S-400 India di Adampur, yang terletak di daerah Jalandhar di negeri Punjab India, dalam serangan udara pada Sabtu, kata tentera Pakistan dalam satu kenyataan.

    Serangan itu dilakukan menggunakan peluru berpandu hipersonik yang digunakan dari platform JF-17, dengan peluru berpandukan berketepatan meneutralkan aset pertahanan udara termaju, kata Perhubungan Awam Antara Perkhidmatan (ISPR), sayap tentera tentera Pakistan, dalam kenyataan itu.

    Sistem S-400, dianggarkan bernilai sekitar 1.5 bilion dolar AS, dianggap sebagai salah satu sistem peluru berpandu darat ke udara paling canggih di India, tambah kenyataan itu.

    Penganalisis tentera memberitahu Xinhua bahawa kejayaan menyasarkan S-400 boleh mempunyai implikasi yang ketara untuk postur pertahanan udara India di rantau itu.

    Serangan itu adalah sebahagian daripada operasi ketenteraan utama Pakistan “Bunyanun Marsoos” yang bermaksud struktur konkrit, dilancarkan sebagai tindak balas kepada provokasi India yang berterusan, dan bertujuan menyasarkan beberapa pemasangan tentera bernilai tinggi di seluruh India, menurut ISPR.

    XINHUA