A car driven by an elderly man who may have lost consciousness plowed through a small-town parade of hiking enthusiasts in southwestern Virginia on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously enough to be sent to hospitals, authorities said.
The incident occurred in the Appalachian town of Damascus at the start of the annual Trail Days festival, as the main street was filled with hikers making their way from one end of town to a park at the other, volunteer fire department chief Ben Sanders told Reuters.
Sanders said investigators were uncertain what caused the collision between the automobile and the parade, but it appeared that the elderly man behind the wheel "passed out or had some medical issue, and he ran through the crowd with his car."
None of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening, Sanders added....
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07:35 AM, May 19, 2013
New Orleans: Residents of one of America's most violent cities cheered six arrests in a Mother's Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded and three in critical condition. Two New Orleans brothers were booked with 20 counts each of attempted second-degree murder in Sunday's shooting spree. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who strongly promotes the city's tourism industry, including the annual Mardi Gras celebration, said the arrests are the latest evidence...
08:00 AM, May 18, 2013
Washington: Police have released video surveillance of a suspect wanted in the Mother's Day parade shooting in New Orleans, the largest city in Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal's state of Louisiana, injuring at least 19 people. The footage shows still images taken from the scene of the parade minutes before and after the shooting, including footage of one of the three suspects involved, according to local Nola.com. The grainy surveillance...
05:27 AM, May 14, 2013
United States: At least 19 people, including two children, have been wounded in New Orleans as gunmen opened fired on crowds taking part in a Mother's Day parade. Police say the shotting took place from different guns and three suspects were seen. No arrests have been made so far. The shooting shattered the festive mood surrounding the parade that drew hundreds of people to the 7th Ward neighborhood of modest...
07:30 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The 22-year-old man who allegedly raped a five-year-old girl here was on Sunday sent to judicial custody till May four to facilitate test identification parade after he was produced in a city court by the Delhi Police a day before expiry of his transit remand. Earlier in the day police said that Manoj Kumar, who was arrested on Saturday from Bihar's Muzaffarpur, will not be produced in court...
08:01 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The prosecution in the murder case of real estate tycoon and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Deepak Bhardwaj on Tuesday asked for a Test Identification Parade for three of the accused. CNN-IBN has learnt the trio have refused to volunteer for the line-up test. ...
01:14 PM, Apr 02, 2013
After watching the film Vikram immediately headed to Bala's office to congratulate him. ...
11:21 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Vikram and Bala worked together in the film 'Sethu'. Vikram rose to fame after the film and was lauded for his performance by awards. ...
09:40 PM, Mar 28, 2013
At the recently announced 60th National Awards, 'Paradesi' pocketed one award for the best costumes. ...
12:13 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Directed by Balaji Sakthivel, 'Vazhakku En 18/9' was named the best feature film in Tamil. ...
05:21 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Bala's 'Paradesi' is riveting, brutal and realistic as any film in a long time. ...
03:37 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Inspired from a book titled Red Tea, it tells the story of enslaved plantation workers who experience atrocities in pre-Independence India. ...
10:30 AM, Mar 16, 2013
The film 'Paradesi' revolves around the plight of tea plantation workers during the pre-independent India. ...
04:31 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The film is inspired from Harris Daniel's novel, 'Red Tea', it has got a 'U' certificate by the censor board. ...
04:41 PM, Feb 26, 2013
At least three people were arrested in Odisha's Sundergarh district on Tuesday for parading three women and an elderly man naked in a village for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 13, 2013
'Paradesi', based on a Paul Harris Daniel's English novel 'Red Tea', has been directed by Bala Pazhanisaamy. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Set in pre independent India, 'Paradesi' narrates the problems of tea plantation workers in southern India. ...
03:22 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The display of India's military strength, specially the intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-V, has been highlighted by Chinese official media here on January 26. The highlight of the 100-minute Republic Day parade was the display of nuclear-capable Agni-V, capable of striking targets some 6,000 km away, state-run Xinhua news agency said in its report. ...
06:50 PM, Jan 26, 2013
