"A blast happened on Foreign Ministry's road near the Daudzai Trade Center in downtown Kabul this afternoon, eyewitnesses said, describing it as a heavy explosion," tweeted Tolo News.
A shocking incident came to the fore from Uttar Pradesh's Meerut where a woman allegedly killed her 10-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter with the help of her lover.
The carcass of the woman identified as Sanmati Barik of Jalmadei village of Sesong Gram Panchayat within Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary in Nuapada was recovered by the forest officials on Monday morning.
Photographs posted online on Sunday showed several blood-soaked bodies near the entrance to the village monastery, including three belonging to Buddhist monks. The front of the monastery was also heavily pockmarked with bullet holes.
According to the police, following the murder, the 30-year-old accused allegedly chopped the victim's body into pieces to fit it into a suitcase and dispose it off.
Two people, whom the Pakistani police called "terrorists," were killed in a gunfight with security personnel in the Spin Wam area of North Waziristan province, stated Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement.
Two Israeli brothers were shot and killed by a Palestinian gunman on Sunday near Har Bracha, a West Bank settlement about one mile south of Nablus, where nearly a dozen Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military raid earlier this week.
Officials said that the 38-year-old man identified as Rajesh, allegedly killed his wife (aged 35 years) and two sons (aged 5 years and 4 months) due to the family's financial crisis.
The accused later beheaded the deceased, removed his heart and private parts, chopped his fingers, and later walked to the police station to surrender himself on Friday, the police said on Saturday.