Fourteen people have died in major forest fires in northeastern Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country’s highest such toll in years. The emergency situations ministry said on Saturday that 316 people had been evacuated but the situation was under control and homes safe, despite the high temperature and the changing direction of the wind hindering the response. In total, 14 bodies have been found.
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Two Former Top Police Officers Involved In Banker’s Disappearance
Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda has said that two former top police officials were involved in the disappearance in June of Shuhrat Ismatulloev, the deputy chairman of one of the Centra Asian country’s leading banks.
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Three Killed In Latest Russian Missile Barrage To Hit Ukraine
Russia hit Ukraine with a nighttime barrage of 18 missiles, killing two people in Pavlohrad and a 14-year-old boy in the Chernihiv region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Forty other people were injured in Pavlohrad. Zelenskiy also said the 14-year-boy killed in the northern region of Chernihiv died close to his school when the building was hit by a bomb.
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NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out.
