BBC在线收听下载:印度发生踩踏事件 至少91遇难

BBC news 2013-10-14

BBC News with Jonathan Izard

The International Committee of the Red Cross says that seven of its workers have been abducted in northwestern Syria, it's not clear who carried out the kidnapping. Jim Muir reports.

An International Red Cross spokesman said the abduction happed when a convoy of four clearly marked ICRC vehicles was intercepted by gunman near Saraqeb in the northwestern province of Idlib. All seven of the personnel on the convoy were taken away. The spokesman couldn't confirm Syrian state media reports that the convoy had been shot at. He said they had had no direct contact so far with kidnapped personnel or with the abductors. It's not known who might have been responsible for the abduction. Hardline Islamist rebel groups are known to operate in the area.

Syria's official state news agency says there has been a double car bomb in the center of the capital Damascus. It said two cars driven by suicide attackers blew up close to the headquarters of the Syrian state broadcasting cooperation causing minor damage to the building. State television said a number of passersby had been wounded in the blasts.

Police in Russia say they've arrested about 200 people who were vandalizing a shopping centre in the south of Moscow. Thousands of people startled rioting during a protest against the killing of an ethnic Russian man in front of his girlfriend allegedly by a migrant from the Caucasus. Steve Rosenberg reports from the Russian capital.

The demonstration began peacefully. But it soon turned violent. Protesters stormed the shopping centre smashing windows, and then overran a vegetable warehouse searching for migrant workers. There were chants of Russia for the Russians and White Power. Riot police moved in, there were clashes and hundreds of people were detained. The violence reflects growing Russian nationalism and growing tension between ethnic Russians and migrant workers from the Caucasus region and from former Soviet Republics.

Indian officials said at least 91 people have been killed during a stampede at a Hindu festival, more than 100 people have been treated in hospital for injuries. Emergency crews