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• Police earlier said that all 17 who died in the Saturday morning blaze in Gujrat, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) northwest of Islamabad, were children aged between 6 and 12.
• Officer Ijaz Ahmad said a short-circuit next to a leaking gasoline tank started the blaze. Police earlier blamed an exploding natural gas cylinder. The bus was powered with both types of fuel.
• He said an unspecified number of children were injured, some listed in critical condition.
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• MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state officials are scrambling to find a temporary fix for a bridge that collapsed on an important interstate highway and, incredibly, left just three motorists with injuries. Whatever the solution, it won't come in time to help with Memorial Day's highway hoards.
• Transportation experts are also working to find out whether the spectacular disintegration of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle, was a fluke or a sign of a bigger problem.
• A trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment Thursday evening when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the span collapse into the water behind him.
• Two vehicles fell into the chilly river. The three people in those vehicles were not seriously hurt.
• As authorities try to find a temporary span, motorists will have to use alternate routes during the holiday and for weeks to come.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch and robs Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.
• Amid a series of recent positive economic reports, the GOP is revving up its portrayal of the Obama administration as scandal-ridden and inept, while largely aban

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