Pakistan road crash kills 18

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker killed at least 18 people and wounded 25 others in northwestern Pakistan, police said yesterday.

The bus was heading to the southern port city of Karachi with about 48 passengers when it collided with the truck near the city of Kohat Saturday, police official Ijaz Khan told AFP.

The vehicles were travelling towards each other on a singlelane road when they collided, Khan said. Of the 25 people wounded, he added, nine were seriously injured.

Sohail Khalid, the Kohat police chief, also confirmed the incident and the toll. — AFP NEW DELHI: Two Romanian nationals were arrested in New Delhi on Saturday on suspicion of hacking into the accounts of more than 300 ATM users across India, police said.

The men are believed to have stolen about three million rupees (US$44,000) from ATMs in the eastern city of Kolkata alone and the total amount could be higher, said Praveen Tripathy, joint commissioner of police in the city’s detective department.

They have been brought to Kolkata where the local court has ordered them to be placed in police custody until Aug. 18, Tripathy said.

He added that the two Romanians were believed to be part of an international gang that uses skimming devices on ATMs to steal debit card details of users.

Two Romanians held in India over hacking of ATM accounts