3 killed, 12 injured as car bomb hits Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province

13:56, July 27, 2019

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  Car accident kills 8, injures 3 in southwest China

  (File Photo: VCG)Eight people were killed and three were injured in a car accident in Sinan County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province on Tuesday afternoon.All the injured were taken to the hospital for treatment, while the cause is under investigation.The local government organized the public security and emergency management departments to carry out rescue work after the accident happened.(Compiled by Zhang Jian)

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  8 killed, 27 injured as 3 blasts rock Kabul

  KABUL, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Five people were confirmed dead and 10 others injured as a blast hit a mini-bus in Kabul on Thursday, Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said.An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier stands near the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan July 25, 2019. (Photo: AP)According to Rahimi, the targeted mini-bus belonged to the Ministry for Mines and the victims might be the employees of the said ministry.Details would be released after investigation, the official added.Two more blasts were also heard in Kabul minutes after the blast targeting the mini-bus.

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  Lightning storm kills 20 in eastern India

  A government official says lightning has killed at least 20 people with thunderstorms and heavy rains lashing eastern India.An Indian policeman travels with residents on a wooden boat to cross a flooded locality near the Ahiyapur police station at Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar on July 18, 2019. (Photo: VCG)Disaster Management official Amod Kumar Sharan says the deaths occurred on Tuesday, raising overall death toll in Bihar state to more than 100 from lightning and flooding since the monsoon season started in June.Last Sunday, 33 people were killed by lightning in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They were mostly farmers working in the field.Millions of people have been hit by floods, their homes and crops devastated by surging waters in the worst-hit Bihar and Assam states.South Asias monsoon rains, which hit the region from June to September, are crucial for the rain-fed crops planted during the season.