Portal:Current events/2005 October 29

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)