BAGHDAD -- Five people were killed and four wounded in a bomb attack on Monday in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a local security source said.

Major Alaa al-Saadi from the Diyala police told Xinhua that a roadside bomb planted by unidentified armed men detonated in the evening near a civilian car outside the town of Maqdadiyah, 100 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (Iraq-Bomb-Deaths)

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NEW DELHI -- Four people were killed and four others critically injured on Monday after a blast took place inside a firecracker factory in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, police said.

The blast took place when the men were making firecrackers in the unit at village Bhusandapur in Khordha district, about 64 km southwest of Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha. (India-Firecracker Factory-Blast)

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OUAGADOUGOU -- At least 11 people including soldiers and their auxiliaries were killed Saturday in an ambush against a military unit in northwestern Burkina Faso, Xinhua learned Monday.

"Unidentified armed men attacked on Saturday a military unit in the village of Zaba, in the province of Nayala, Boucle du Mouhoun region (northwest), killing 11 soldiers and auxiliaries," a local security source told Xinhua. (Burkina Faso-Ambush-Death Toll)

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JAKARTA -- Landslides occurred in Indonesia's western province of Riau Islands on Monday, leaving at least 10 dead and several others missing, a rescue official said in a statement.

Heavy downpours and unstable soil conditions were blamed for the natural disaster in Natuna Regency of the province, the spokesman of National Disaster Management Agency Abdul Muhari said. (Indonesia-Landslides-Casualty) Enditem

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