Incidents

At least 23 people were killed in an attack at a gold mining site in northern Burkina Faso in a latest violence by the militants linked to Al-Qaeda, security source said late Saturday.

A 25-year-old man shot five people dead in the early hours of Sunday morning in Kitzbuhel, a small Alpine town east of Innsbruck, in Austria, before he turned himself in to police, local police said.

Five people have been killed as a result of crash-landing of Ukraine-Aeroalliance airline’s An-12 aircraft near the Lviv airport.

At least seven people have been pronounced dead after a World War II-era vintage bomber crashed at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut on Wednesday.

At least 90 people have died in the northeastern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar over the last four days after heavy rains wreaked havoc in the region.

Three people were found dead inside a burnt house in the city of Uralsk, West Kazakhstan region.

A powerful earthquake struck the Turkish metropolis Istanbul on Thursday, according to Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD).

An early morning suicide truck bombing killed at least 20 people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.

At least 24 people were killed and 32 others wounded after an explosion struck an election campaign rally in Afghanistan's eastern Parwan province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman said.

A special commission has been formed by the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development to investigate the fatal road accident which took place at Shamalgan station in Almaty region, referring to Ruslan Imankulov, Adviser to the Minister.