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At least 19 people have been killed and 26 others injured in a road accident in southeastern Türkiye.
A truck collided with first responders of another accident involving a truck and two vehicles in Mardin's Derik district on Saturday.
"Unfortunately, the number of people who lost their lives in the accident in Mardin Derik increased to 19," Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a statement on Twitter.
"The number of injured is 26, six of them in serious condition," Koca said, adding that all means were being utilised for the treatment of the injured.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu also tweeted that all teams were mobilised and the injured were being shifted to hospitals.
Earlier in the day, another traffic accident killed at least 16 people and injured 22 others in southeastern Gaziantep province, governor Davut Gul said.
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Gaziantep accident
A passenger bus overturned and dragged for several dozen metres and hit a fire brigade and paramedic team responding to a traffic incident on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep Highway, as well as a broadcast vehicle of a Turkish news agency, IHA.
The fatalities in the accident include three firefighters, four health personnel and IHA news agency journalists Muhammed Abdulkadir Esen and Umut Yakup Tanriover.
Gaziantep Governor also told reporters that the first accident occurred at around 0745GMT (10:45am local).
All injured have been taken to hospitals.
READ MORE: Road accident kills at least 16 people in southeastern Türkiye
Source: AA
At least 15 people have been killed in India after heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides near the Himalayan foothills.
Rescue officials were rushed on Saturday to Mandi district in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh where a torrent of floodwater swept away two houses and killed eight people, a government statement said.
Landslides and flooding claimed seven other lives across the state, the release added.
Television news footage showed part of a railway bridge washed away by the deluge in nearby Kangra district. Schools were closed in the worst-affected districts.
In Hamipur district, flash floods stranded 19 people on the rooftops of local buildings before they were rescued by disaster response teams.
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Climate crisis
Of those dead, eight family members were buried alive on Saturday in Himachal Pradesh after their home collapsed due to heavy rain, Deputy Commissioner Arindam Chaudhary told Anadolu Agency.
"There were flash floods, landslides in multiple places due to heavy rains. So far, we have recovered 10 bodies. Around 3-5 people are still missing," Chaudhary said.
"A search and rescue operation is underway to find the missing people," he added.
Flooding and landslides are common and cause widespread devastation during India's treacherous monsoon season.
Last month, eight people died after flash floods triggered by a sudden downpour struck a camp for pilgrims in nearby Kashmir.
Heavy rains battered India's remote northeast in June, with nearly 40 killed in a landslide that swamped a camp housing railway workers and army reservists in Manipur state.
Experts say the climate crisis is increasing the number of extreme weather events around the world, with damming, deforestation and development projects in India exacerbating the human toll.
READ MORE: Families flee as 'frightening' floods hit New Zealand
Source: TRTWorld and agencies
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Suspected rebels have killed twelve civilians in recent attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said.
The head doctor of a hospital in Oicha in North Kivu province on Thursday that he had received five bodies on Wednesday from a village that lies to the west of the town.
Another seven bodies arrived from another village to the west of Oicha on Thursday, head doctor Jerome Munyambete told AFP news agency.
"These people were killed by machetes and bullets," he said.
Darius Kasereka, a civil society representative in Oicha, confirmed the death toll and said in a statement that the twelve civilians had been "brutally slaughtered".
The area surrounding Oicha has been "invaded by ADF rebels," he added, referring to the Allied Democratic Forces group.
The ADF is among the most violent of the more than 120 militias that roam the DRC's troubled east.
READ MORE: More deaths as protests against UN spread in DRC
The group – which Daesh group claims as its central African branch – has been accused of massacring Congolese civilians as well as staging attacks in neighbouring Uganda.
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi placed North Kivu and neighbouring Ituri province under the administration of security forces last year in a bid to stem the violence.
But the measure has failed to stop attacks against civilians.
READ MORE: Assailants kill at least a dozen patients in eastern DRC clinic
Source: AFP
