COLOMBO -- The Chinese Embassy in Colombo confirmed the death of four Chinese scientists in the Easter explosions in Sri Lanka on Tuesday night, raising the number of Chinese killed in the attacks to six.

The embassy said in a statement that the four Chinese scientists were from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the First Institute of Oceanography under the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, who arrived in Sri Lanka in the mid of April for research purposes. Their bodies had been found and identified by family members. (Sri Lanka-Explosions-Chinese Casualties)

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TOKYO -- Japanese people were immersed in a celebratory mood as new Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on Wednesday, marking the start of a new imperial era in Japan.

"I have hereby succeeded to the throne pursuant to the Constitution of Japan and the Special Measures Law on the Imperial House Law," the emperor said in a statement. (Japan-Reiwa Era)

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AYBAK, Afghanistan -- Unidentified armed men gunned down six civilians including a local politician in the northern Afghan province of Samangan on Wednesday, head of the Provincial Council Hajji Raz Mohammad said.

According to Mohammad, the bloody shooting happened outside the provincial capital Aybak in the wee hours of Wednesday during which Hajji Abdul Wasi, provincial chief of the National Islamic Movement headed by First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, was killed along with five others. (Afghanistan-Shooting)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least three soldiers were killed and seven others injured in a cross-border attack by militants from the Afghan side on Pakistani security forces, a military statement said on Wednesday.

About 60 to 70 militants attacked Pakistani army personnel busy in border fencing in the country's northwest tribal district of North Waziristan, the military's media wing Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in the statement. (Pakistan-Militant-Attack)

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JAKARTA -- Food, medicine and clothes among other relief materials have been channeled to thousands of victims hit by floods and landslides in Indonesia's western Bengkulu province, disaster agency officials said on Wednesday.

Over 13,000 residents have been affected after torrential rains lashed the province on Sumatra Island, swelling rivers that burst their banks and submerging nine districts, head of communication and information of the provincial disaster agency Abdul Rohman said. (Indonesia-Flood-Aid) Enditem

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