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SAN FRANCISCO -- One student was killed and four others injured on Wednesday in a shooting at a high school near Spokane in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington.

The shooting took place shortly after 10:00 a.m. local time at Freeman High School in Rockford, Spokane County, in Eastern Washington state. (US-School-Shooting)

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WASHINGTON -- Eight people died at a nursing home in the U.S. state of Florida after its air conditioning system was knocked out by Hurricane Irma, authorities said Wednesday.

In a release, the office of the Broward Medical Examiner and Trauma Services confirmed the eight death at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills in east coastal city of Hollywood. (US-Irma-Death)

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KHARTOUM -- At least 8 people were killed on Wednesday and 19 others injured in a traffic accident on the road linking the Sudanese capital Khartoum and Wad Madani town of Gezira State in central Sudan, according to Traffic Police.

"The accident took place when a passenger bus collided with a mini-bus on the highway linking Khartoum and Gezira State," Col. Mussa Abdul-Ghader, Director of Gezira State's Traffic Police, said in a statement. (Sudan-Traffic Accident)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Interior Ministry said Wednesday that a wanted terrorist was killed in a fire exchange with police forces in the country's Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

In a statement, the ministry said the terrorist was a prime suspect in an anti-police terror attack in July that left a number of policemen dead near the capital Cairo. (Egypt-Terror-Police) Enditem

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