A bomb planted beneath a car explodes in
Alexandria,
Egypt, as a motorcade carrying the city's head of security passes by, killing at least two people.
(The Telegraph)
The Times reports their journalist, Bel Trew, had been expelled from
Egypt shortly after her February 20 arrest. Trew had been given the option of a military trial or leaving the country.
(AP)(The Guardian)
The Kofu District Public Prosecutor’s Office in
Japan announces nobody will be prosecuted over the collapse of the
Sasago Tunnel, which killed nine and injured three. Officials say the collapse would have been difficult to predict.
(The Japan Times)
Two men are rescued from a capsized dredger off
Malaysia after 50 hours in an air pocket in the engine room. The death toll so far is nine, with rescue efforts underway to search for more survivors.
(Sky News)
A friend of poisoned exiled
Russian spy
Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to
Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia. Russia denies receiving such a letter.
(BBC)
The 23
British diplomats and their families expelled from the Russian Federation arrive on a flight from
Moscow.
(BBC)
Investigators discover the Skripals switched off their mobile phones for four hours shortly before falling ill, and begin examining mobile phone data from everyone in
Salisbury the day of the crime in a bid to link a phone to the poisoner.
(Daily Mirror)
Law and crime
A car is deliberately driven into a group of schoolgirls in
Glasgow,
Scotland, injuring five.
Police launch an attempted murder probe.
(BBC)