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Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
Two car bombs exploded in the central Baghdad district of Karrada, on Saturday. Karrada is a mostly Shi’ite commercial area in central Baghdad, was busy on Saturday night when two car bombers attacked the area.
At least 16 students have been killed and other trapped in the rubble of the Saint Academy school in Jos North district of Plateau State. Mechanical diggers are on site to help rescue the victims while parents desperately look for their children. IMAGES
Boko Haram jihadists killed 20 civilians in an attack Sunday on a village in restive northeastern Nigeria as inhabitants prepared to break their Ramadan fast, residents and local security personnel say. IMAGES
Rains cause heavy damages in the streets of Sabara, in the outskirt of Brazil’s Belo Horizonte, as the floods kill 44. IMAGES