KABUL -- Two children lost their lives and seven others were injured after the roof of a mud house collapsed in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a local official said on Friday.
The tragedy occurred on Thursday night while the families of the children were gathering for a dinner party on the outskirts of Police District 15, Kandahar City, the capital of the province, said the provincial director for the disaster management authority Mullah Abdul Salam. (Afghanistan-Incident-Roof-Collapse)
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MOSCOW -- Russian Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the General Staff's main operations directorate, was killed Friday in a car explosion in Balashikha, Moscow region, said the Russian Investigative Committee.
Preliminary findings indicated that the blast was caused by a homemade explosive device planted in the vehicle. (Russia-Lieutenant General-Murder)
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COLOMBO -- Twenty-seven people, including 10 school children, were injured on Friday when a bus veered off the road in Mahiyanganaya in Sri Lanka's Uva Province, police said.
According to the police, the accident was due to a failure in the bus braking system. (Sri Lanka-Bus Crash)
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ISLAMABAD -- At least four paramilitary troops were killed and three others injured in an attack in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, official sources said.
The incident happened on the outskirts of Quetta, the provincial capital city, where a vehicle carrying the bomb disposal squad was targeted by an improvised explosive device, the sources from the city's police told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Security Personnel-Attack) ■
