BJP workers killed in Kashmir

Srinagar: Militants shot dead three young workers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in Kashmir yesterday, days after his government changed laws allowing people from the rest of the country to buy land in the disputed region.

Earlier this year, five other BJP workers were killed in Kashmir, prompting the police to move hundreds of village leaders who are close to the party to highsecurity zones. — Reuters a downed power line. This was followed by four deaths in Alabama and Georgia from trees falling on homes, and a 58yearold man in Mississippi drowned when he was trapped in rising seawater after taking a video of the storm. — Reuters