0 Comment(s)
Print
E-mail Xinhua, October 24, 2024
DAMASCUS -- Turkish warplanes and drones launched intensive airstrikes late Wednesday and Thursday morning on Kurds-controlled areas in northern and eastern Syria, killing at least 13 people and injuring 15 others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.
The strikes were in response to a deadly terrorist attack in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday, which Turkish authorities attributed to members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). (Syria-Türkiye's Airstrike-Death Toll)
- - - -
GAZA -- At least 17 Palestinians were killed, including nine children, by the Israeli bombing on the Shuhada al-Nuseirat school in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said.
The attack also left more than 52 others injured and a number of persons missing, the media office said in a statement, adding that the school sheltered thousands of displaced persons, and the majority of them are children and women. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)
- - - -
ABUJA -- Nearly 1,200 people were killed in the diphtheria outbreak in Nigeria over the past 17 months, said the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in its latest update on the spread of the disease in Africa's most populous country.
Since the onset of the outbreak in May 2023, a total of 38,000 suspected cases have been reported, with 23,000 confirmed so far, Muzzammil Gadanya, the incident manager of the National Diphtheria Emergency Operations Center at the NCDC, told reporters Wednesday in the northern state of Kaduna. (Nigeria-Diphtheria Outbreak-Death Toll)
- - - -
YANGON -- The death toll from a ferry accident caused by a strong whirlpool in southern Myanmar has climbed to 17, an official from the Myeik Fire Services Department told Xinhua on Thursday.
Initially reported at 8 fatalities on Monday, the number of victims increased after authorities recovered nine more bodies. As of Thursday morning, nine people are still missing, and 11 individuals have been hospitalized, the official said. (Myanmar-Ferry Accident-Death Toll) Enditem
Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)