'Beta' bangs into coastline
MANAGUA (AP): HURRICANE BETA roared ashore along Nicaragua's remote Caribbean coastline yesterday, ripping off roofs, toppling trees and sparking floods. The storm caused four rivers to overflow in Honduras before weakening to a tropical storm.
111 die in train crash
VELIGONDA (AP): NAVAL BOATS scoured for dead bodies yesterday as rescuers gave up on finding new survivors from a train that plunged into a rain-swollen river in southern India, killing at least 111 people, officials said.
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