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Published: August 25, 2008
Boeing 737 crashes in Kyrgyzstan, killing 68
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high-school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff yesterday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 68, government officials said.
The jet, a Boeing 737, was headed to Iran when it crashed near Bishkek's Manas International Airport, said government spokeswoman Roza Daudova. Twenty-two people, including two crew members, survived the accident.
An airport official said that the crew reported a technical problem about 10 minutes into the flight and that the plane was returning to the airport when it crashed. The official said she was not authorized to give her name.
Eighteen survivors were hospitalized, and four others were sent home with no serious injuries, according to Daudova.
Five Americans among 10 killed when plane crashes
GUATEMALA CITY -- A small plane carrying U.S. humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala yesterday, killing 10 people, including five Americans, an aviation official and a survivor said.
The Cessna Caravan 208 was on the way to the county of El Estor when it crashed in a field of crops about 60 miles east of Guatemala City.
The pilot called in engine trouble about 45 minutes after takeoff and tried to make an emergency landing, Civil Aviation director Jose Carlos said.
Eight passengers were killed, along with the Guatemalan pilot and co-pilot, Carlos said.
Suicide bomber kills 25 at homecoming celebration
BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, announced the arrest of an al-Qaida in Iraq figure who is alleged to have planned the 2006 kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll -- one of the highest-profile attacks against Westerners in Iraq.
The suicide attack occurred outside a house on Baghdad's western outskirts, according to residents and police. It was unclear if the former detainee was among the casualties.
The announcement of the arrest of Salim Abdullah Ashur al-Shujayri, also known as Abu Othman, was a major breakthrough in a series of kidnappings.
He was captured Aug. 11 in Baghdad and accused of being "the planner behind the kidnapping" of Carroll, a Christian Science Monitor reporter who was seized Jan. 7, 2006, and released three months later, according to the military.
Eight climbers believed dead after Mont Blanc avalanche
CHAMONIX, France -- An avalanche swept down a major summit in the Mont Blanc range before dawn yesterday, leaving eight climbers missing and presumed dead along a trail often used to reach western Europe's highest peak.
"There's no chance of finding anyone alive," French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said while visiting the area.
The avalanche was set off around 3 a.m. by the fall of a massive block of ice on the Mont Blanc du Tacul, the Haute-Savoie regional government office said in a statement.
Missing are five Austrian and three Swiss climbers.
Ayatollah Khamenei praises Iran's president Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader was quoted yesterday as praising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for "standing up to" the West in a dispute over Iran's nuclear program, amid growing domestic criticism of the president's management.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered unusually glowing praise of Ahmadinejad, who upon his election in 2005 sparked a confrontation with the West by resuming uranium enrichment and also prompted worldwide condemnation for denouncing Israel. The country's spiritual leader has rarely, if ever, expressed such support for any other Iranian politician.
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