Mountain road crash kills 7 in Pakistan
Muzaffarabad: Pakistani police say a vehicle tumbled off a mountainous road into a river, killing seven people. Senior officer Raja Akmal said on Sunday the vehicle was carrying passengers from Neelum Valley to Muzaffarabad, the Capital of Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, when it veered off the road at a sharp curve.
Blast in yemen capital kills 13 kids
Sanaa (Yemen): Yemeni medical officials say a big explosion at a warehouse in the capital killed at least 13 children in nearby schools. The officials say the explosion in Sanaa wounded another 54 people, including schoolchildren. It was not clear what caused the explosion.
The Houthi rebels, who have controlled the capital since 2014, sealed off the area. The rebels say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeted the warehouse and damaged nearby schools.
3 killed in Nigeria suicide bomb attack
Kano (Nigeria): Three people died and more than 30 injured in a twin suicide blast in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, militia sources and residents said on Sunday. Two female bombers late Saturday detonated their explosives among a crowd in Muna Dalti on the outskirts of the city, the birthplace of the Boko Haram jihadist group.
Fighting in Syria strains truce, kills 13
Beirut: Syrian Government forces and insurgents exchanged a barrage of rockets on Sunday in the country’s northwest that killed at least 13 people and hit a government-run hospital, activists and Government media reported. The violence strained a fragile months-old truce negotiated between Russia and Turkey that averted a Govt offensive on Idlib.