51.   Police reported one dead and four wounded after an artillery or mortar shell landed near the city centre.

52.   Sixteen dead were reported in two days in the Sindh capital, Karachi.

53.   The ANSA news agency, quoting a railway official, had earlier reported eight dead in the accident near Piacenza.

54.   The interior ministry, which reported no dead, said a fire triggered a chain of explosions at the Jebel Hadid ammunition site.

55.   The NPA, which had reported three dead, later Thursday revised the death toll to seven.