NEW YORK - A bag containing eight small bricks of military C4 explosives was found in a cemetery in lower Manhattan, New York police said Monday.

DHAKA - An angry mob Monday set a train on fire after it crushed at least five people gathering for an opposition rally in northern Bangladesh, officials said.

RAIPUR - Two days after police claimed to have killed eight Maoists in a fierce shootout in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district, its claims were mired in controversy with accusations Monday that two of those killed were civilians.

MUMBAI - Three robbers armed with revolvers looted Rs.20 lakh from a branch of Saraswat Bank in the Mumbai suburb of Kandivli- soon after it opened Monday morning, police said here.

BHUBANESWAR - Four men, who were among seven people caught allegedly attempting to commit a theft in a house, were beaten to death in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district early Monday, police said.