Film-maker bounty criticised

WASHINGTON: The US has condemneda Pakistani minister’s offer of a bountyto kill themaker of an anti-Islam film.Railways Minister Ghulam AhmedBilour offered $US100,000 forkilling the film-maker ofInnocence of Muslims. The USState Department condemnedthe bounty and the film.

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Ships enter disputedwaters

TOKYO: Two Chinese ships yesterday enteredwatersaround Japan-administered islands in the East ChinaSea, Japan’s coastguard said, as tensionsmount overthe disputed chain. The Chinesemaritimesurveillance ships were spotted off Kubashima andUotsurijima, the coastguard said. The two countrieshavewrangled about the Japan-administered islandssince the 1970s, but the row flared last month afterpro-China activists landed on one of them.

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Baby giant panda dies

WASHINGTON: The giant panda cub born aweek agoat the National Zoo inWashington has died, zooofficials say.The cubwas found dead after panda keepers heardsounds of distress from its mother, Mei Xiang,yesterday, zoo officials said.Staffers were able to retrieve the cub about an hourlater. The cub appeared to be in good condition, andtherewere no outward signs of trauma or infection.

Rescuers take an injured victim to base camp at Mt Manaslu in northern Nepal after an avalanche swept away climbers

Avalanche chaosKATHMANDU: Rescuers inNepal are searching forseven missing climbers afteran avalanche killed at leastnine people, swept away intheir tents ahead of a finalpush on one of the world’shighest mountains.

Police said the group wasnear the top of the 8156mManaslu, one of the world’sdeadliest peaks, when theywere hit by a wall of snow asthey were sleeping overnighton Saturday. Four of the

dead and three of the miss-ing are French, France’s nat-ional union of mountainguides (SNGM) said whilemountaineering officials inNepal said an Italian, aGerman, at least oneSpaniard and a NepaliSherpa had died.

‘‘Seven climbers are miss-ing. The rescue effortswere hampered due to badweather yesterday.

‘‘They will resume thismorning,’’ ministry spokes-

man Gyanendra Shresthasaid. Basanta Bahadur Kun-war, the local deputy policesuperintendent said, how-ever, that 13 people had beenrescued alive.

Meanwhile harrowing ac-counts of the avalanche be-gan to emerge from sur-vivors being treated in aKathmandu hospital.

‘‘All of a sudden, there wasdarkness. I could imaginethat we were buried underan avalanche,’’ Andreas

Reiter, 26, of Germany, wasquoted as telling the Hi-malayan Times from his hos-pital bed in the capital.

‘‘I witnessed one of theteam members die.’’

SNGM vice-presidentChristian Trommsdorffdescribed the French vic-tims as three mountainguides from the Chamonixarea in the Alps and four oftheir clients, who were partof two expeditions.

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identified by their photosand three are missing, aswell as two injured who havebeen evacuated by helicopterto Kathmandu,’’ he said.

The avalanche happenedat around 7400m and carriedaway part of camp numberthree at 6800m.

Among those reportedmissing was a doctor fromthe French-speaking Canad-ian province of Quebec,cardiologist Dominique Oui-met, the man’s sister said.

Tied inFloridaMIAMI: US PresidentBarack Obama and chal-lenger Mitt Romney are loc-ked in a virtual tie inFlorida, according to a Mia-mi Herald/Tampa Bay Ti-mes poll that indicates theDemocrats’ conventionbuzz and the Republicans’recent troubles haven’t al-tered the race in the biggestof battleground states.

Mr Obama has 48 percent support to Mr Rom-ney’s 47 per cent among li-kely voters — a lead wellwithin the poll’s 3.5 per centmargin of error.

‘‘This race is still close inFlorida,’’ said Brad Coker,who conducted the Mason-Dixon Polling & Researchsurvey. ‘‘It’s very mucha toss-up.’’

Swoop onsuspectWELLINGTON: NATOforces in Afghanistan havecaptured a man they saywas behind an attack thatkilled two New Zealandsoldiers last month.

The man was a seniorweapons dealer and his cap-ture came after coalitionforces combed the Bamyanprovince following a spikein attacks in the normallyquiet province.

Coalition spokesman Ma-jor Adam Wojack said theman would be handed overto Afghan authorities.

There was a ‘‘strongpossibility’’ more peoplewould be captured.

Lance Corporal PralliDurrer and Lance CorporalRory Malone, both 26, werekilled and six wounded in afirefight on August 4.