ISLAMABAD -- Eleven people were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Sunday, local media and police said.

One of the accidents occurred in the Multan district in a traffic pile-up involving a passenger van, a car, and a motorbike, resulting in six deaths and seven injuries, police sources from the district told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Punjab-Road accident)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 18 persons, including 10 women, four children and four men, died and more than 25 were injured when a stampede occurred at the New Delhi railway station late on Saturday night, confirmed a government official.

There was a huge crowd of people at the railway station to board a train to Prayagraj district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh to take the holy dip in "Triveni Sangam," the confluence of three rivers, namely Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati during the ongoing spiritual festival "Maha Kumbh." (India-Stampede-Deaths)

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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli airstrike killed at least three police officers in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

An Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement that the strike, carried out by a drone in southern Gaza, targeted "several armed individuals" who were "moving toward" Israeli troops. (Gaza-Israeli Strike-Officers Killing)

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BAMAKO -- At least 48 people, most of them women, were killed on Saturday when an "illegally operated gold mining site" collapsed in western Mali, according to consistent eyewitness accounts from the area.

The tragedy occurred in Bilalkoto, a village in the commune of Dabia, located in the Kenieba district of the Kayes region. (Mali-Mine Collapse)

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SAO PAULO -- Two people were killed Saturday when a small plane crashed into a sugarcane field in a rural town in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state, the local fire department said.

The aircraft crashed in the town of Quadrahad after taking off from a nearby airfield, killing the two people onboard. (Brazil-Plane-Accident) Enditem

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