SARAJEVO -- A school employee shot and killed at least three people and wounded several others on Wednesday in a town in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), local police said.

The shooting occurred around 10:00 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) in a secondary school in Sanski Most, about 300 kilometers northwest of BiH's capital, Sarajevo. (BiH-Shooting-Death)

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TEHRAN -- At least 28 people were killed and 23 others injured as a bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims to Iraq overturned in the central Iranian province of Yazd Tuesday night, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.

The incident occurred in Dehshir village, Taft County, at around 9:50 p.m. local time (18:20 GMT) Tuesday night as the bus was en route to the Iran-Iraq border carrying Pakistani passengers who sought to attend the Arbaeen ceremonies, IRNA quoted Mohammad-Ali Malekzadeh, the director general of the provincial crisis management department, as saying on Wednesday. (Iran-Bus Accident)

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BEIRUT -- An Israeli drone fired two air-to-surface missiles at a civilian SUV at the southern entrance to the city of Sidon on Wednesday morning, killing a leader in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.

The dead was identified as Khalil Maqdah, a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and also the brother of Fatah commander Munir Maqdah. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrike)

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ADEN, Yemen -- A crew member of a Greek-flagged commercial ship was shot and wounded on Wednesday in an armed attack and shelling targeting the vessel in the Red Sea off the coast of Hodeidah, western Yemen, a senior Yemeni government naval official told Xinhua.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that the commercial ship, named MV SOUNION, came under attack about 77.5 nautical miles west of Hodeidah. (Yemen-Greek Ship-Attack) Enditem

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