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Bishop murdered in Andhra
HYDERABAD, July 29 (PTI) — A prominent church leader, Bishop G. Emanuel, was hacked to death by unidentified persons inside a church compound in Guntur town today in what the police believe to be a case of factional rivalry. Emanuel, president of the Andhra Evangelical Lutneran Church, was attacked with axes and knives when he was coming out of his office room.

Taiwan rocked
TAIPEI, July 29 (AFP) — A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said. The tremor struck at 4:28 a.m. (0158 IST). Minor tremors and aftershocks have been a daily occurrence on the island.

Politician shot
MADRID, July 29 (Reuters) — Gunmen killed a socialist politician in Spain’s Basque region today in an escalating campaign of violence blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, officials said. Juan Maria Jauregui, former civil Governor of the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range as he sat in a cafe in the town of Tolosa.

3 die in blast
DUBAI, July 29 (DPA) — An explosion in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that caused the death of three children and serious injuries to three others was caused by an artillery shell, Saudi newspapers reported today. Quoting Saudi official sources the reports said the children were playing with the shell when it exploded.

17 killed in Algeria
ALGIERS, July 29 (AP) — Armed groups assassinated 17 persons, including children and babies, in a recent spree of violence in this north African country, the Algerian media reported today. In the industrial area of Tiaret, 350 km west of the capital Algiers, eight members of a nomadic clan, including two babies, were stabbed to death overnight on Thursday.