MEXICO CITY - Fifteen people were killed Wednesday at a car-washing centre in the western Mexican town of Tepic, in the third such massacre in less than a week in the country.

SILCHAR - Four coaches of passenger train Barak Valley Express were derailed Wednesday after suspected militants triggered a blast on a railway track in southern Assam, officials said. No casualties were reported.

RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh Police are probing the death of a youth who died mysteriously here at a crowded inaugural function to mark a decade of the formation of the state.

CHANDIGARH - The All-India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) has filed a complaint with Punjab police chief demanding registration of a sedition case against Booker Prize winner writer Arundhati Roy.

LUCKNOW - A court in Uttar Pradeshs Bareilly district Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said.