"Dead at least 36" as boats capsizing in Togo

Lomé  - seven boats capsized during a storm in the nation of Togo West Africa, at least 36 people dead, a police source said Monday, the authorities of seeking more victims.

"Up to 8: 00 pm last night, 36 bodies were recovered," said a source from Aneho police in the South of the country, near Lake Togo, where the accident took place Sunday afternoon.

"There were a total of seven boats, including one other main carrying the greatest number." The other six were small skiffs. ?

Reports on a spoke of privacy the same number of death radio station.

The victims were returning from a funeral in the village of Ekpui. They were from Togo-Kome, with Lake dividing the two villages, 40 kilometres (25 miles) East of the capital Lomé.

"We do know not how many people were aboard boats and research is continuing," the police source said, adding he y survivors, although he could not say how much.

Great Lake - technically a lagoon - is located near the coast of the country and the Gulf of Guinea, leading to the Atlantic Ocean.

At least 18 killed in combat in Baghdad prison: official

Baghdad  - at least 18 people were killed in fighting between security officers and prisoners in a prison in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior complex in Baghdad on Sunday, a security officer, said.

The dead included an al Qaeda leader known as the "Emir of Baghdad" which planned an attack on a Catholic Church last October in which more than 50 people died, said Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman for the security of Baghdad.

The skirmish to a central unit to fight against terrorism in the Karrada district of Baghdad began when a prisoner grabbed a gun from a guard, killed several guards and officers of the Ministry of the Interior and has given a weapon to other inmatessaid Moussawi.

"The guards and security forces responded to the prison of the Department of the fight against terrorism and killed 11 terrorist prisoners... including Huthaifa al-Batawi, the Emir of Baghdad, which was responsible for the planning of the Church attack," said Moussawi.

Moussawi said seven security officers were killed in the skirmish and another was wounded.

Batawi was arrested with 11 other late November for the assault on October 31 on the Church of our Lady of salvation during the Sunday mass. Dozens of hostages and police died when Iraqi forces attempted to free the Catholic hostage more than 100.

The attack was the bloodiest against the Christian minority in the Iraq since the invasion led by the United States in 2003.

Moussawi, said the situation in the prison was under control and some prisoners had escaped.

Since on Iraqi security forces high alert for revenge attacks by al-Qaida U.S. commandos killed the leader of the Group of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Monday.

At least 15 die as plane crashes off the coast of Papua the Indonesia

JAKARTA - an Indonesian plane carrying 27 people it is crushed on the sea off the coast of the remote Papua province, the Ministry of transportation, said Saturday, and the media, said at least 15 people were killed.

The propellers Merpati plan travelled to Kaimana in Papua, a wooded and mountainous eastern province with one of the worst infrastructure in more 17 000 Islands archipelago.

"We are still checks on the status of the passengers," said Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for the Department of transportation. "We also don't know what caused the accident, but the weather was bad enough at the time."

Indonesian media, quoting airport officials, said the plane, a MA60 made by AVIC International China, crashed 500 metres from the runway and 15 bodies had been recovered so far.

Several small carriers are used Indonesia and many have poor safety records. The European Commission, which had banned all airlines Indonesian airspace, lifted a ban in 2009 on Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia after that she improved safety standards.