228 feared dead as Air France jet is lost

A missing carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into a towering wall of thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday, fearing that all aboard were lost.

The area where the plane could have gone down was vast, in the middle of very deep Atlantic Ocean waters between Brazil and the coast of Africa. Brazil’s military searched for it off its northeast coast, while the French military scoured the ocean near the Cape Verde Islands off the West African coast.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told families of those aboard that “prospects of finding survivors were very small.” If all 228 were killed, it would be the deadliest commercial airline disaster since2001.

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Thirty Close Circuit Televisions at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus may hold key to probe

Thirty Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, installed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station in the aftermath of the 7/11 Mumbai train bombings in 2006, hold the key to investigations into Wednesday night’s Terror attack on Mumbai.

Having “roamed around firing indiscriminately” inside the station premises for more than two hours, the images of men unleashing terror at CST are learnt to have been captured by these CCTVs. While Railways Protection Force (RPF) officials were sceptical about the usefulness of CCTV footage given their “skeletal” presence at the station, security agencies were still hopeful of finding some important leads into the identities of the perpetrators through the recorded footage. “The CCTV footage has been sealed and will be handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Squad,” Central Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Srinivas Mudgerikar said.

The attack at CST railway station, which began around 9.55 pm on Wednesday, left four persons, including three railway employees, dead and seven injured.

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