MOSCOW -- The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it seized 1,515 kg of cocaine from Ecuador at a port in St. Petersburg.
Following intelligence provided by foreign partners, the FSB and Russian Federal Customs Service discovered 1,500 bricks of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment on a vessel from Ecuador on Aug. 29, said the FSB in a statement. (Russia-Cocaine-Seizure)
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KABUL -- Seven travelers lost their lives and two others sustained injuries as a car collided with a passenger bus in Wardak province in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a statement of the provincial police office said.
The deadly accident took place on a road linking the country's capital city Kabul to southern Kandahar province on Friday afternoon, the statement said. (Afghanistan-Road Accident)
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NEW DELHI -- One worker was killed and four others injured in a blast inside a chemical factory in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, officials said Friday.
The explosion took place on Thursday evening at the factory in Palghar district, about 120 km north of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra. (India-Factory-Explosion)
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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least nine people, including four students, were killed and 16 others injured on Thursday morning after a passenger bus collided head-on with a truck in central Tanzania's Dodoma region, police told Xinhua by phone on Friday.
The accident occurred at around 6:40 a.m. local time (0340 GMT) in the Nyasa Camp area of Chemba district of the region, according to Dodoma Regional Police Commander Galus Hyera. (Tanzania-Road Accident) ■
