LIMA -- At least 10 people were killed and another 25 injured in the predawn hours of Monday after a passenger bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in Peru's department of Lima.

The accident occurred around 2:30 a.m. at kilometer 109 of the Central Highway, the head of the Highway Protection Division of the Peruvian National Police, Col. Victor Meza, said, according to state news agency Andina. (Peru-Accident-Casualty)

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CHICAGO -- Four people were killed and nine others injured in a shooting that happened in downtown Louisville in the U.S. state of Kentucky Monday morning.

Of the injured, three were in critical condition. One of the two police officers injured was in critical condition, Louisville police confirmed in a news conference. (Kentucky-Louisville-Shooting)

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YAOUNDE -- Suspected separatist fighters have killed four civilians in raids in Cameroon's restive English-speaking regions, according to local and security sources.

Gunmen suspected to be separatist fighters killed a middle-aged man and burned four vehicles in Buea, the chief town of the English-speaking region of Southwest, early Monday. (Cameroon-Anglophone Region-Raid)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least 13 traders were killed on Sunday night and another two injured after a truck ferrying them from an auction plunged into a river in Ruvuma region in southern Tanzania, police said on Monday.

Marco Chilya, the Ruvuma regional police commander, said the incident occurred on Sunday at 9 p.m. local time when the truck ferrying the traders overturned before it plunged into Njoka River as it attempted to climb a steep hill. (Tanzania-Truck-Accident) Enditem

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