«As of now we have 123 people dead, including more than 40 children,» Daljit Singh Manilas, a police officer said.
«The injured have been taken to two places, and the toll could be more as we are awaiting news from other hospitals,» Manhas added. He said at least 45 women were among the dead.
Children were among the first to fall to the ground and were trampled by pilgrims running to safety as their parents tried to save them, police officers said.
Thousands of worshippers had gathered at the temple in Bilaspur district to pray to a Hindu goddess during an annual festival.
More than 3,000 people were trying to get into the temple at the same time when part of the iron railing broke, officials said. Most of the worshippers were from the neighboring state of Punjab, they said. Television pictures showed people being carried on stretchers to a hospital, many writhing in pain. Stampedes at temples are not uncommon in India where thousands of people gather to pray during festivals.5
Annual Ежегодный
Break (broke, broken) Ломаться
Cause Быть причиной
Crush Давить
Fall (fell, fallen) Падать
Goddess Богиня
Iron railing Металлические перила
Pain Боль
Stampede Паническое бегство
Stretcher Носилки
Temple Храм
The injured Раненые
Toll Потери
Trample Растаптывать
Uncommon Редкий
Worshipper Верующий
Writhe Корчиться от боли
Bulgaria Gives Fuel to Russia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Bulgaria has sent its remaining highly enriched uranium to Russia for safeguarding from terrorist or other potential misuse.
More than 6 kilograms of the spent fuel were received Thursday at a Russian nuclear facility, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced. A first shipment of 16.92 kilograms of fresh uranium fuel was sent to Russia in December 2003.
«With this shipment there is no more highly enriched uranium in Bulgaria,» said Brian Wilkes, a spokesman for the U.S. agency, which was established in 2001. «Bulgaria now joins Latvia in clearing out all Soviet-era dangerous nuclear fuel.»
Remaining in Bulgaria, he said, are small quantities of low-enriched uranium, on which most civilian reactors run.
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union sent shipments of enriched uranium to Bulgaria, which was then part of the Soviet bloc. The returned shipment was transported under guard in casks to the Danube River, loaded on a barge and shipped to Ukraine, and then shipped by rail to the secure Russir facility near Chelyabinsk, in the Urals region.
Spent and fresh uranium fuel has also been returned to Russia from Serbia, Romania, Libya, Uzbekistan, Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and Vietnam. At the same time, all highly enriched uranium spent fuel was returned to the United States by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Thailand.6
By rail По железной дороге
Cask Бочка
Enriched Обогащенный
Establish Создавать, учреждать
Fuel Топливо
Join Присоединяться
Misuse Неправильное использование
Nuclear facility Ядерная установка
Remain Оставаться
Return Возвращать
Run (ran, run) Работать, функционировать
Safeguard Защищать, охранять
Ship (v) Перевозить грузы
Shipment Груз, партия товара
Spent fuel Отработанное ядерное топливо
3 Killed in Evraz Coal MiniNG Accident
COMBINED REPORTS
Three miners died Sunday in an accident at a Siberian coal mine owned by Evraz Group, the country’s largest steelmaker by domestic volume, the company and the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
The accident occurred at around 8:45 a.m. local time at Mine No. 12 in Kiselyovsk, in the Kemerovo region, the ministry said. An investigation is under way to establish the cause.
Officials could not say whether production would be affected.
«There was an accident. Three people died,» a ministry spokesman said. «Over 70 people were inside the mine at the time of the accident. All the rest have been moved out to the surface.»
The ministry official said there had been «a breach of the technological process with methane involved,» but he did not confirm an explosion.
«An investigation is being carried out to find out the reasons.»
A spokesman for Evraz confirmed that three miners had died in an accident at the mine.
Evraz acquired full ownership of the mine in March 2005. Mine No. 12 produced 893,000 tons of coal in 2007, including over 667,000 tons of coking coal used in the steel industry, Evraz said of its web site.7
Accident Авария, несчастный случай
Acquire Приобретать
Affect Затрагивать
All the rest Все остальные
Breach Нарушение
Carry out Выполнять, осуществлять
Cause