BBC News with Zoe Diamond.
At least 15 people have been crushed to death in Germany at a techno music festival known as the Love Parade. One hundred others were injured, 45 of them seriously.
Up to
one million people have been attending the festival which this year is being held in the city of Duisburg. The tragedy occurred at an entrance tunnel to the festival area where hundreds of fans were waiting to be let in. A crush developed,
trigger
ing panic. Despite the deaths, the authorities have decided to let the festival continue. Safine Black, journalist at Radio Duisburg, was at the festival and told the BBC there seemed to be hardly any attempts to control the crowd.
“There were only one entrance to the festival and the people were coming from two sides and they collided there at the entrance, and, I don't know, the organization was ... it was terrible.”
Two Americans serving with ISAF(International Security Assistance Force), the International Force in Afghanistan, have reportedly been captured by the Taliban. They are believed to have been seized in Logar province. From Kabul, David Loyn reports.
This was a very unusual incident in Afghanistan where US forces move around only with a lot of protection. The two left their base in Kabul shortly before sunset on Friday and then disappeared. The spokesman for the governor of Logar province said that the men ignored warnings in
setting out