KABUL -- Eight members of a family lost their lives and another was injured as the roof of their house caved in eastern Afghanistan's Parwan province on Saturday, provincial police spokesman Fazal Rahim Muskinyar said.
The deadly incident took place in the wake of heavy rain in Syagird district early this morning, the official said. (Afghanistan-Collapses)
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MANILA -- Four people were killed after a cargo truck plowed into a village gymnasium and several parked vehicles in Davao City, the southern Philippines, on Saturday morning, local authorities said.
The Davao City Police Office said the incident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. when a tire on the 10-wheeler truck burst, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. (Philippines-Car Crash)
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BEIRUT -- Israeli warplanes intensified their air campaign across the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon on Saturday, launching airstrikes that killed at least 13 people and caused widespread destruction across multiple areas, including casualties among emergency and health workers.
At dawn, airstrikes targeted a residential building in a town, killing three people. Additionally, an initial strike targeted a cluster of private electricity generators in a village, igniting fires and causing significant damage, followed by another airstrike that killed three people. (Lebanon-Israeli Strikes-Deaths)
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GAZA/RAMALLAH -- At least six people were killed Saturday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a Palestinian police checkpoint in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses.
Palestinian medical sources at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah reported that ambulances transported the bodies of at least six people killed and a number of wounded in the attack. (Gaza-West Bank-Deaths)
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MOSCOW -- The Orthodox Easter ceasefire with Ukraine announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin began on Saturday afternoon and will continue until Sunday midnight.
On Thursday, Putin announced a ceasefire to mark the Orthodox Easter holiday from 4 p.m. Moscow time (1300 GMT) on April 11 until the end of April 12. The Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the move. (Russia-Ukraine) ■
