NEW DELHI -- At least three people, including two women and a child, were charred to death and seven others injured Saturday in an explosion inside an illegally-run firecracker factory in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police said.

The explosion that subsequently triggered a massive fire in the house took place in Ridhau village, Sonipat district of Haryana. (India-Factory-Blast)

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KATHMANDU -- Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfalls in Nepal have claimed at least 59 lives and injured 36 others by Saturday afternoon, police said.

A total of 44 others had gone missing in the disasters sparked by rainfalls since Friday evening, and the police had rescued 1,252 people from different parts of Nepal, said Dan Bahadur Karki, Nepali Police spokesperson. (Nepal-Disasters-Casualties)

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MADRID -- At least 9 people have died and 48 went missing after an illegal migrant boat capsized off the island of El Hierro on Friday night, Spain's maritime rescue service confirmed on Saturday.

Another 27 people were rescued, according to the maritime rescue's X account. (Spain-Illegal Migrants)

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BEIRUT/GAZA -- Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the Israeli airstrikes targeting the militant group's command headquarters a day earlier in Dahieh, Beirut's southern suburbs.

In a statement, the group mourned Nasrallah, describing him as "a great martyr" and "a heroic, bold, brave, wise, insightful, and faithful leader" for nearly 30 years, who lately led in "the battle for Palestine, Gaza, and the oppressed Palestinian people." (Lebanon-Hezbollah Leader-Death Confirmation)

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ISLAMABAD -- A chartered helicopter crashed in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday afternoon, killing six people on board while injuring ten others, police officials said.

The incident happened at about 1:00 p.m. local time when a helicopter chartered by a private oil exploration and production company Mari Petroleum crashed in the Shewa area of North Waziristan district of the province, District Police Officer Rokhanzeb Khan told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Helicopter Crash) Enditem

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