Pakistan oil company says

six killed in helicopter crash

ISLAMABAD: A helicopter belonging to a Pakistan oil company crashed on Saturday after suffering a technical fault during takeoff, killing six people, the company said. Fourteen people were on board including three Russian pilots and crew when it crashed in North Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, near to the border with Afghanistan. “In the accident, six people died and eight people were injured,” said the statement issued by Mari Petroleum Company (MPC). — AFP

Vietnam puts Typhoon Yagi

economic losses at $3.3bn

HANOI: Vietnam suffered $3.3 billion in economic losses as a result of deadly Typhoon Yagi, which swept across the country’s north earlier this month causing hundreds of fatalities, state media reported Saturday. Yagi battered northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in early September, triggering floods and landslides that left more than 700 people dead. Officials have calculated that economic losses in communist Vietnam amount to $3.3 billion, state media said in reports on a government meeting about the consequences and lessons learned from the disaster. —AFP

Deaths from Russian service

station blast rise to 13

MOSCOW: Russia said Saturday the death toll from a blast at a service station in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan a day earlier had risen to 13. The emergency services ministry said on Telegram that rescuers had pulled three bodies from the rubble Saturday morning after finding 10 bodies Friday, including those of two children. The ministry put the number of injured at 23, posting a video of firefighters and rescuers still working in the still-smoldering ruins. Russia’s Investigative Committee said Saturday it had opened a probe into the provision of dangerous services causing multiple deaths, a crime punishable by up to a decade in prison. — AFP

Iran policeman killed in

attack claimed by jihadists

TEHRAN: A police captain has been killed in Iran’s restive southeast in an attack claimed by a jihadist group, local media reported on Saturday. Captain Abolghassem Piri from the police command in Suran village in Sistan-Baluchistan province on the border with Pakistan “was assassinated by armed criminals”, the ISNA news agency reported, citing police. The Pakistan-based Sunni jihadist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice in Arabic) claimed the attack in a message on Telegram. — AFP

Indonesia landslide death

toll revised down to 11

JAKARTA: The death toll in a landslide at an illegal mine in Indonesia has been revised down to 11, with miscounting linked to the remote location, a local disaster agency official said Saturday. The landslide hit a remote site in West Sumatra province on Sumatra island Thursday evening after heavy rains in the area, with rescue workers struggling to locate the dead and injured. Search efforts were being hindered by the remote location, with rescuers including police officers, soldiers and civilians having to walk for hours from the nearest village to reach the area. — AFP