France: Stowaway atop train dies on way to Chunnel
An illegal immigrant trying to sneak in to Britain was electrocuted and killed Saturday while hiding atop a freight train headed toward the Channel Tunnel, the French rail operator said.
Several dozen refugees had tried to hide aboard the train but were discovered, train operator SNCF said. The victim, a man about 20 years old, escaped the security check and remained on board. He was electrocuted when the train passed under power lines near Frethun, in northern France.
Neither the victim's identity nor his nationality was known.
MOSCOW: Chess masters draw in game four of match
Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov missed a chance to take a dominating two-game lead over his countryman Vassily Ivanchuk and had to settle for a draw in the fourth game of the finals of the FIDE world chess championship on Saturday.
Ponomariov, who won the first game, now leads the match at the halfway point 2.5-1.5.
As Black, Ponomariov repeated the variation of the Queen's Gambit Accepted that he used in game two. Ivanchuk varied from that game on move six and the position soon resembled something from the Advance Variation of the Caro-Kann Defense.
Ponomariov will have White in game five on Monday.
Thailand: Blast on city's outskirts fatal to mother, son
An explosion on Saturday at a roadside food stall on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok killed a woman and her son and injured six others, police said.
The blast occurred when the woman picked up a neatly wrapped box lying in front of the stall and shook it to check what was inside, according to police.
Police said the woman, who owned a nearby car repair shop, was passing by with her son when she noticed the packet. The son also was killed.
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