KANUR, Pakistan - Aid workers warned Monday that exposure and infection could trigger a second wave of deaths if thousands of injured and hungry quake victims across the stricken Himalayas are not reached soon.
The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said more than 80,000 people were injured in the Oct. 8 earthquake, and relief officials say many people who were seriously hurt by falling debris remain cut off in the isolated mountains of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
Helicopters resumed flying relief missions Monday after heavy rains over the weekend forced suspension of most flights.
An estimated 54,000 people died in the quake, and the death toll is expected to rise.
Ethnic violence kills 37 people in India
GAUHATI, India - Machete-wielding attackers ambushed a bus and tribal militants set fire to two villages of a rival group in northeastern India on Monday, killing 37 people, officials said.
Militants from the Dimasa tribe, which has recently fought militias from the rival Karbi tribe, attacked a bus and killed 22 travelers with machetes, said D.D. Tripathi, the top administrator of Karbi Anglong district in Assam state.
The assailants dragged the passengers off the bus before lining them up on the road and hacking them to death, Tripathi said. Twenty died at the scene and two died from their wounds at a hospital. Five other passengers were injured.
Opposition leader arrested in Ukraine
BAKU, Azerbaijan - The government of Azerbaijan on Monday blocked the return of the exiled leader of an opposition party who had vowed to run in the parliamentary elections next month, and arrested members of his party who were organizing a rally to support him.
Instead of arriving at the international airport here to be met by the tens of thousands of supporters his aides had predicted, the leader, Rasul Guliyev, head of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party, was flown to southern Ukraine, where he was detained on corruption charges at the request of Azerbaijan.
The events brought into sharp relief the tensions in this oil-exporting former Soviet republic as it prepares for the first national elections since 2003, when Ilham Aliyev won the presidency in a vote that was clouded by allegations of ballot-rigging and fraud.
Guliyev, 57, a former refinery manager and parliament speaker, has been a fugitive since 1996, living in the United States.
