A Trinamool Congress leader, who contested and won the recent panchayat elections, was killed and another person injured in a shootout at Magrahat in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, police informed on Saturday.
At least eight people, including a child, were killed after a van carrying tourists plunged into a ravine in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday, according to Dawn.
A woman and her three children were killed in a house collapse in Mansehra. Meanwhile, a labourer was killed and two others were injured in a landslide in Mardan.
As many as five people were killed by a powerful typhoon which brought widespread flooding and landslides to the Philippines, CNN reported citing authorities in the country.
A total of five people including three children have been killed in rain-related incidents as heavy downpours wreaked havoc in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said on Thursday, Dawn reported.
Two workers were killed when a pillar fell on them at a construction site of Srinivasa Setu in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati on Wednesday, the police said.
At least nine people were killed, and seven others were left injured because of flash floods in Parwan province of Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported citing a Taliban official on Wednesday.
Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai on Wednesday launched an attack on Bihar Chief Minister after police opened fire and baton-charged the protesters in Katihar, in which one protester was killed, adding that CM Nitish Kumar should resign.