INDIA: Some 35 bodies have been found in a well at a Hindu temple in the central city of Indore in after the well’s cover collapsed, officials said today.

Witnesses said that a large crowd of devotees had thronged the temple to perform a fire ritual and celebrate the festival of the deity Rama.

Dozens of people fell into the water when the structure over the well collapsed and were then covered by falling debris.

SYRIA: Israel carried out air strikes on suburbs of the capital Damascus earlier today for the second day in a row, the official Syrian Arab News Agency (Sana) reported, without mentioning any casualties.

Sana said that Syrian air defences were “confronting hostile targets” and that some of Israeli missiles had been shot down.

PAKISTAN: At least 11 people were killed earlier today in a deadly stampede at a Ramadan food distribution centre in the southern port city of Karachi, police and rescue officials said.

The stampede happened when hundreds of people waiting to collect food outside a factory panicked and started pushing each other. Some fell into a nearby drain, local police official Mughees Hashmi said.

It is the deadliest stampede at a Ramadan food distribution point since the start of the Islamic holy month of fasting. 

SUDAN: At least 14 workers died when a gold mine collapsed in the north of the country, state media reported today.

The Sudan News Agency said that the roof of the Jebel al-Ahmar gold mine, near the Egyptian border, fell in on Thursday. 

Many other miners remain missing, the agency reported.