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At least 44 people were killed and 67 injured by two explosions on Sunday night that targeted a mosque and a restaurant in central Nigeria, Reuters reported.One of the attacks in the Nigerian city of Jos hit the popular Yantaya Mosque, where cleric Sani Yahaya Jingir was preaching.
Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in "coordinated" attacks in southwestern Pakistan that largely targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said. In one of the attacks, dozens of militants stopped vehicles travelling on a highway through Balochistan province and shot 23 people dead -- one of the worst shootings in the region in the past several years. IMAGES
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
The Shabelle River has burst its banks in Beledweyne, in central Somalia, forcing thousands of people to abandon their homes, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and submerging markets and hospitals. IMAGES
Thousands of people in India's northeastern state of Manipur have taken refuge in military camps after being evacuated by soldiers following deadly unrest that kicked off after a protest march by a tribal group last week sparked clashes, with vehicles and houses set on fire. Authorities have not given an official death toll but hospital morgues in the state capital Imphal and Churachandpur had reported a combined total of 54 dead, according to local media. IMAGES