PAKISTAN: Security forces fatally shot three insurgents involved in the recent killing of a senior government administrator in the restive south-west, the military said today.

It said the dead men were members of the Baloch Liberation Army, which claimed responsibility for the attack on Baloch ahead of Pakistan’s Independence Day. The men were also involved in previous attacks, it added.

KENYA: A suspect who police said had confessed to killing 42 women after being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in the capital Nairobi has escaped from custody, officials said today.