6 Indians indicted in gurdwara shooting
Austrian authorities have indicted six Indian men in connection with last year’s shooting at a gurdwara in Vienna.
A Sikh preacher was killed and more than a dozen others were wounded — including a second Sikh cleric — during the May 24 incident.
The rampage triggered riots in several cities in northern India.
Prosecution spokesman Thomas Vecsey says one of the men currently in pretrial custody has been indicted on charges of murder and two counts of attempted murder. The other five are accused of involvement in the murder and attempted intentional aggravated assault.
None of the suspects have been identified.
Court spokesman Christian Gneist says a trial date is expected to be set within the next few weeks.
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Survival hope fades for 30 trapped miners in Turkey
Ankara : Hope for the survival of 30 trapped Turkish miners were fading on Tuesday as rescue workers struggled to reach them a day after a methane gas explosion collapsed parts of a major coal mine in northern Turkey, an engineer said.
The explosion at the Karadon mine near the Black Sea port of Zonguldak buried the miners nearly 1,770 feet below the surface last afternoon.
Rescuers pumped air into the mine to try to dispel the gas and began digging through a collapsed chamber on to reach the miners, chief engineer Husnu Unal said.
“Their chance of staying alive is decreasing,” Mr Unal said. —AP
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