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116 stranded PoK residents to be sent back on Aug 21
Published : Aug 19, 2017, 6:13 pm IST
Updated : Aug 19, 2017, 6:13 pm IST
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Poonch/Jammu: As many as 116 PoK residents, stranded here for over a month due to the closure of the Poonch-Rawalakot cross-LoC bus service, will return home via the Kaman crossing point in Baramulla on Monday.   

Three Indians, stranded in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, will also return the same day, Trade Facilitation Officer (TFO), LoC Trade Poonch, Mohammad Tanveer, told PTI. Cross-LoC bus services on the Poonch-Rawalakot road between Jammu and Kashmir and PoK was suspended on July 10 due to heavy firing and shelling from the Pakistani side.   

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"The PoK residents will return home via the LoC crossing point at Kaman in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on August 21," he said. District authorities have asked the PoK residents to report at the sports stadium in Poonch tomorrow for their journey on August 21 via the Kaman crossing point. PTI 7 hurt in Russia knife attack, terror 'not main angle'   

Moscow, Aug 19 (AFP) A man stabbed seven people on the street in Russia's far north today before being shot dead by police but investigators said that his motive was most likely not terrorism. The incident took place on Saturday morning in the city of Surgut, where the man "carried out attacks on passers-by, causing stab wounds", said Russia's Investigative Committee which probes major crimes.   

It said armed police called to the scene had "liquidated" the attacker.   Regional officials said seven people were taken to hospital, with the figure confirmed by investigators, who lowered an earlier toll of eight wounded.The Investigative Committee said it had established the man's identity, saying he was a local resident born in 1994, and that they were looking into "his possible psychiatric disorders."   

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But the regional interior ministry told Interfax news agency that the theory that the incident was "a terrorist (attack) is not the main one." Regional police said officers fired warning shots at the scene before firing at the suspect who was wearing a balaclava.   

YouTube footage shown on Russia's Ren TV television showed a black-clad man lying on a pedestrian walkway with a policeman kneeling on his back as sirens wail. Two of wounded are in serious condition while five more are stable, a regional government statement said. The city lies some 2,100 kilometres northeast of Moscow in the oil-rich Khanty-Mansi region.(AFP)

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