NEW DELHI -- Five doctors died and one was seriously injured in a road accident on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh early Wednesday, confirmed a local police officer.

The victims were returning from a colleague's wedding in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. Aged between 30 and 45 years, all of them were employed at a government hospital in Saifai area, located along the Agra-Lucknow expressway. (India-Road Accident)

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COLOMBO -- Four people were killed, nine were injured, and six were missing due to floods in Sri Lanka, said the Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Wednesday.

The floods have affected 230,743 people and destroyed more than 600 houses, Director General of the DMC Udaya Herath told a press conference. (Sri Lanka-Floods)

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SEOUL -- Eleven people were injured on Wednesday from a pileup involving 53 vehicles in eastern South Korea, according to Yonhap news agency.

The series of collisions occurred at about 5:50 p.m. local time (0850 GMT) on a road in Wonju, around 120 km east of the capital Seoul. (South Korea-Pileup)

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GAZA -- At least 17 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on a school sheltering displaced people, and a residential house in Gaza City, the Palestinian civil defense said Wednesday.

"The Israeli army killed 10 Palestinians by attacking al-Tabeen school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City," Mahmoud Basal, spokesman of the civil defense, told Xinhua. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel) Enditem

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