Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed state ministry for disaster management affairs has said that in the past nine months, 350 people have died in various natural disasters in the country, TOLO News reported.
As many as 73 people have been killed and 170 injured in twin blasts near the burial site of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in the Iranian city of Kerman on Wednesday in what officials called a terror attack, according to state media, as per CNN.
At least 64 people were killed in the massive earthquake of 7.5 magnitude that struck the Noto Peninsula and surrounding areas in central Japan on Monday.
At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured after a bus where they were travelling, collided with a truck in Assam's Golaghat district on Wednesday morning, police said.
The military's media wing added that the killed terrorists remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities against the security forces and were planning to conduct a high-profile terrorist attack, which was averted due to a proactive response by security forces.
Soldiers from a reserve battalion were shot at from a house in the village and returned fire, eliminating the terrorists. One soldier was moderately wounded during the gun battle.
A deadly car crash outside a New Year's concert that killed two people is being investigated as 'domestic terrorism', CNN reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
According to the police officials, the accident occurred when a car lost control, hit the divider and collided with another car that was coming from the opposite direction, near the Bandapuram flyover in Devarapalli Mandal.