Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 27

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YAOUNDE -- A commander of Cameroon's elite force, the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) and four civilians were killed on Tuesday in the country's restive Anglophone region of Southwest, according to local and security sources.

Commander Essama was leading a team of BIR forces on a reconnaissance mission at the Ikiliwindi locality of the region Tuesday morning when they were ambushed and attacked by separatist fighters, a senior military official who asked not to be named told Xinhua by phone. (Cameroon-Attack-Casualties)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least 13 people, including eleven nursery and primary school pupils, were killed Tuesday morning and 16 others injured after their school bus veered off the road and plunged into a ditch in southern Tanzania's Mtwara region, said police.

Nicodemus Katembo, the Mtwara acting regional police commander, identified the other victims as the driver of the school bus and his assistant. (Tanzania-Road Accident-Casualties)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Amid escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a UN peacekeeper and two police personnel were killed and a third was injured, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

There were unconfirmed reports of civilian casualties during anti-United Nations demonstrations in easternmost North Kivu province. (UN-DRC-Peacekeepers-Death)

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TEHRAN -- At least six people died as two cars collided on a road in central Iran on Tuesday, official IRNA news agency reported.

In the accident on the Nain-Isfahan road, a car veered to the left and collided with a trailer coming from the opposite direction, Mohammad Zamani, head of Nain Red Crescent Society, told IRNA. (Iran-Collision-Casualties) Enditem

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