Show ' V Q World ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday December 27 2003 — A9 In brief Qmiailk© Ion Diraini Governor: TEHRAN Iran (AP— An earthquake devastated ' Iranian city of Turkish cell is dismantled yi' southeastern on Friday leveling more ISTANBULTurkey (AP) — Police arrests have dismantled an Pam AI-Qaida-lin- ‘in s ' j y: i ltDlls OTer ©©(Q) i ked J' the-- ' ' cell believed to have carried out the Istanbul bombings that killed 62 people last month a top official said Fri- -' day but added that several leading members were at large abroad " A Turkish court charged nine mon suspects Friday including ' - an alleged top member of the cell with involvement in the bombings In tot?! 44 people have been charged in last month's ' ' " Vattacks Istanbul Gov Muammer Guler told a news conference that authorities had Captured most of the alleged militants involved J-in the attacks which targeted two synagogues a London-base- d bank and the British Consulate At least five others were ' believed to be abroad ' Theattacks ‘‘were carried out by the elements of who were trying to create a structure in Turkey" Guler said But“there is no need to fear Any attack by this group here has ' This group is totally dismantled" totally been prevented ' those charged by a state security court in Istanbul on 'Among " Friday was a man authorities suspect is a top member of the " 'cell Harun Ilhan was charged with a crime amounting to trea--y' son which carries a penalty of life imprisonment the semioffi- cial Anatolia news agency reported He is the third person to face such serious charges ' ' y - Benin plane wreck kills at least 100 — than half the city’s houses and fortress its historicmud-bric- k At least 5000 people were killed and 30000 injured the: region’s governor said earth- The 5:30 V struck about at quake m collapsing buildings seyering'power lines and shutting down water seryice “The quake hit the city when most of the people were in bed raising fears that the death toll may go higher 'V de - '' said legislator Hasan Khoshrou v Mohammed Ali Karimi the governor of Kerman province said preliminary estimates put the death toll at 5000 to V ' 000 the official Islamic Republic News Agency ' j ' reported y y President Mohammad Khatami urged the entire country to help the victims of the quake calling it a “nation- ' al tragedy” Footage shot from a heli- copter and aired on Iranian state television showed widespread devastation in Bam with rows and rows of collapsed or dam- ! aged buildings next to others that appeared to be intact Images shot from a moving : car accompanied by somber: ' music showed some houses had been reduced to nothing V more than piles of brick While men near one building embraced each oher shaking ' and Sobbing Other footage "' " showed dead and injured pp-f- j Rescue teams searched waters off COTONOU Benin (AP) the West African nation of Benin on Friday in a desperate hunt for survivors of a plane crash AP photo ' r:'1:': that killed xit least ) 1 1 people d Local on residents road a earthquake-damageneat Iranian in houses the of Bam! 630 congregate city' the health minister said miles southeast of Tehran on Friday An earthquake linay have killed a$ many as 5000 people when it The Boeing 727 crashed on devastated the city in southeast Iran early Friday the region's governor said takeoff Thursday scattering debris into the Atlantic Ocean an aftershock if magnitude being brought into hbspitals' ' city lias been completely just 500 yards from the airport!' with crowds of people outside' ’ destroyed and caused great 54 about twohotirs later On Friday the bulk of the said the earthquake human lavv said Mehran Authorities in Bam 630 ’ Reports destroyed aircraft still lay in the mile's southeast of (he capital medieval Nourbakhsh Barn’s chief destroyed spokesman ”' water for Iran's Red Crescent the fortress a missive 2000- - v Tehran put out a call for ' Most of the casualties were ' Islamic' equivalent of the Red blood donations structure that sits on a year-ol- d Lebanese headed home for the " and the cliff near attracts'''- Cross city "Many people have died” Christmas holidays Thousands ‘ The US Geological Survey thousands of tourists each Kerman province Gov of Lebanese immigrants Work - reported the quake's magnj-- : Mohammad Ali Karinii told year The fortress includes in West African countries ' tude ' huts mud was 6-- Capable of caus- scores state media ‘‘Many people of ancient ’ Benin Health Minister Celine “The historic quarter of the - ing severe damage It reported are buried under the rubble " Seignon Kandissounon told reporters' 1 1 1 were now con- I firmed dead At least 20 people survived said Transport Minis- -' ter Ahmed Akobi' ' tried to escape hydrogen Sulfide th govern- begun Friday but was ! It waLs unclear exactly how mentsaid " to Saturday while offi poned Tang Xiaoying who lived " many people were aboard the: 1 (XX) feet from the The poisorioas gas tumed an dais' focused on getting food gas' field! chartered aircraft! Akobj said ! Icist nine family :memhers area into a: ' and water to the tens Pf thoiir V Death toll rising: An unidenti- fied Lebanese man points at plane's manifest listen 156 sands of evacuees front the “death zone as many villagers including her daughshoes of passengers among the passengers and an unknown ! remote were ihtoxicat-- d ter the newspaper Chongqing debris at Cotonou Benin on number of crew Economic Tinies rcpiirtcd by the fumes CHONGQING China ( AP) v - mountainous Friday-aftea plane bound tor With spotlights perched bn ' — Villagers were preparing for area who were their Tung was quoted as saving jri sleep" Lebanon crashed just after take (hie beach and flashlights in ' :' she the China in had just put her children to ' burst well the when living Daily sleep gas ' off hand divers and fishermen killing at least 111 people schools arid bed when she smelled the foul with a bang Then came choknewspaper said seiarched for survivors A reporter for Vgas and heard neighbors Shout- -' government ing fumes Families dashed out " ! the swimming through' scattered pieces of luggage in overnight Shanghai homes terror puildings ing that the well had exploded pof heir slrug' ' : Some 9185 clothes and Morning Post Tang dressed her fwp daughters presents Workers tied chains to parts igling to breathe in the searing and ran outside with hem: K-of the wreckage and dragged them out of the surf with tractors newspaper people were cloud ' ' About 50 Lebanese nationals gathered along the shore before - Survivors and state media wrote an (in the funies the : treated for gas choking ' said She fainted on v and account of the from dawn crowding around bodies water newspaper one poisoning y by pulled gave harrowing accounts jhCnKid hut woke after five" one — to identify friends or relatives enteririg the: of the disaster thal killed al ' other injuriies hard-h- it minutes and struggled pn to a ' and43lwert village "This is all too much for me to handle" said Akim Toufik least 191 people in China’s ' r still hospitalv ofXiatiyang : : neighKir's house 'There was no word on what caused the tragedy Akobi said res- - v southwest forced 41 000 to which abuts the gas field and ized — 17 incritical cpndition : cue teamswere searching for the aircraft’s flight data recorder fiee'and left a 1 the officjal Xinhua News j ' seeingat toaslsixKxlics A12- “death zone "strewn with bod-- ! ' yeaf old hoy and his mother lay Agency said Newspaper pho ies tying in fields by the sides 1 in with red children on the road where they had showed fos ACHONf of roads and in homes faces swollen At least one of the three sui- ISLAMABAD Pakistan (AP)-andthdf eyes sound like heard “I a roaring " shut from chemical bums cide bombers who tried to assassinated President Perve'z' huge flames and I smelled ' ' The blowout — caused when ' Musharraf wais a foreigner raising the specter that international something burning’’ said Xiao accident broke open' a a tenorists had a hand in the attack investigators said Friday fanner ' ' filing Ninghu a 2297 N Mate well : 11 io — nighL accord- -' Tuesday the second attempt in killMusharraf The attack gas days MOVIE HOTLINE 733-64reached by telephone at the ' — ' poured out a ing to Xinhua by bombing his motorcade on a road info the capital —r was car-- ! school where he and other i toxic mix of natural gas ancf ' ried out 1145 m S mEjtM fm Opat VMt Disney's by 'a mix of local and international terrorists" Infer-- '' evacuees were staying“I was BROTHER BEARn mation Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said inapanicI wassofright-ened- ” Still the government stppped short of accusing Osama bin network in the attack as it did after the first ' Z Technicians were preparing Laden’s ' on Dec 14 to kill the presidenLV:' ' to try to plug the well at the attempt ' ibcalmilitant carried the the attack “Which group out Chuandongbei gas field in or sectarian organizations — it would be guesswork to say right town pf Gaoqiao northeast of now” said Interior Ministry spokesman Abdur Rauf Chaudhry Chongqing Work was to have " Ahmed told The Associated Press that one of the bombers was identified from the remains pf his face which was blown nearly 300 yards from' the pickup truck he detonated one of two vehicles packed with explosives in Thursday's attack : y ! - : - : - ' ‘ - ? : 7 gas survivors ta k of their escape ’ China villagers tell about fleeing : the "death zone ' gift-wrapp-ed !! 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