HOSHIARPUR - An army officer, his wife, a daughter and their driver were killed in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district Saturday morning when their vehicle was caught between and crushed by two trucks, police here said.

MANILA - Four policemen in the Philippines will be charged in a kidnapping-for-ransom of two people, officials said.

ALIGARH - Five children of a rickshaw-puller, all aged between 12 and 14, were burnt to death here when a fire broke out in their house while they were sleeping, police said Saturday.