A passenger bus in northern India caught fire due to a suspected short circuit, resulting in at least 20 deaths and multiple injuries, with victims unable to escape due to a single door and the fire spreading rapidly.
Pakistani police have ruled out a "terror attack" in the twin blasts that struck a counterterrorism facility in the country's northwest, saying they were caused by electrical shorts. The death toll from Monday's explosions in the ammunition depot in Kabal town of Swat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan rose to 17. The dead were nine policemen, five detainees and three civilians. More than 50 people, mostly police officers, were also wounded when the shorts ignited explosions seconds apart.