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			Monday, August 31, 1998
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Khaleda Zia granted bail
DHAKA, Aug 30 (PTI) — Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was today granted bail by a city court in a corruption case relating to the misuse of government funds worth 64 lakh taka. Ms Zia, who is also the leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was granted bail by Dhaka’s district and sessions judge Kazi Golam Rasul after she appeared in the court with her lawyers and supporters. Begum Zia’s lawyers, argued the case was "false and fabricated" and filed with the intention of tarnishing her image.

6 dead in train crash
COLOMBO, Aug 30 (AFP) — Two commuter trains crashed near the Sri Lankan capital today, killing at least six passengers and wounding several others, officials said. One train went off the rails and another coming from the opposite direction slammed into it at Mirigama, just 50 km north-east of here, they said.

Embassies' security
CAIRO, Aug 30 (AFP) — The Egyptian police tightened security around the embassies of the USA, Britain and Israel for fear of reprisals following US raids 10 days ago against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. Access for trucks and vans to streets around the embassies had been restricted for the past week, police officials said today. The number of anti-terrorist police and security officers responsible for guarding the three embassies had also been reinforced, they said.

JD seeks probe
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (PTI) — The Janata Dal today sought a high-level probe into the "mistaken" killing of five persons, including two Nagaland policemen, by Manipur Police commandos at Imphal yesterday and alleged it was an attempt on the life of Nagaland’s former Speaker Thamicho Angami. Mr Angami was saved by his bodyguards who fell on him and were killed in the shooting by the Manipur Police commandos, senior Janata Dal leader Ram Vilas Paswan told reporters here.

Quake in Azamgarh
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (PTI) — An earthquake of slight intensity hit the Azamgarh region in Uttar Pradesh this afternoon. The tremor measured 4.8 on the Richter scale was reported at 1.40 p.m., the Meteorological Office here said.

65 killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Aug 30 (AP) — A flash flood and a landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rain swept away at least 65 people in a remote mountainous region in Nepal’s midwest, the state-run Radio Nepal said today. Villagers have recovered 13 bodies so far in the Syangja district from the Andhi and Bhod rivers, swollen by heavy rain and from riverside villages where boulders and mud poured in yesterday. The area is about 160 km west of Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan kingdom.

17 die in bus mishap
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (AFP) — At least 17 people were killed and 44 injured today when a crowded bus plunged into a ravine in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, police said. They said the driver of the vehicle lost control near Teray, four km from Muzaffarabad. Police said the overloaded bus was carrying 65 passengers.