ABUJA -- Three people were killed and two others critically injured in a car crash in Nigeria's southern city of Akure early Friday, said local police.

The accident happened when the Lexus sports utility vehicle carrying the five people ran under a stationary truck, Rotimi Adeleye, the state commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, told reporters. (Nigeria-Road Accident)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. employers added fewer-than-expected 136,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent, a nearly five-decade low, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Job gains mainly occurred in health care and in professional and business services, with 39,000 and 34,000 jobs added respectively, the report showed. Employment in government continued to grow, employment in transportation and warehousing edged up, while retail trade employment declined by 11,000.

September's total nonfarm payroll employment is down from August's upwardly revised number of 168,000, and is lower than the economists' estimates of 145,000 polled by Dow Jones.(US-Unemployment Rate)

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KIEV -- Five people were killed and three others seriously injured due to the emergency landing of an Antonov-12 cargo plane near the Lviv international airport in western Ukraine on Friday morning, according to the state emergency service.

"There were eight people on board, including seven crew members and one person accompanying the cargo," the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on its website.

According to local media, the plane flew from the Spanish resort city of Vigo to the Turkish city of Istanbul and landed in Kiev for refueling. It disappeared from the radar some 13.7 km to the Lviv international airport.(Ukraine-Plane-Emergency Landing) Enditem

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