October 2005 - October 29, 2005 (Saturday)

October 29, 2005 (Saturday)

  • Conflict in Iraq:
    • More than 20 people die when a car bomb detonates in Howaider, a Shia village near Baquba, 60 miles north of Baghdad. (BBC)
    • A train derails in Andhra Pradesh, India, killing 100. (BBC)
    • A series of blasts detonate in New Delhi, the Capital of India. 61 people are known to have died; many more are injured. (NDTV), (BBC)
    • Three Christian Indonesian girls are beheaded as they walk through a cocoa plantation near a private Christian school in Central Sulawesi. (BBC)

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