KABUL -- At least four people were confirmed dead and 80 more injured as a 6.5-magnitude earthquake rocked parts of Afghanistan on Tuesday night, spokesman of the Public Health Ministry Sharafat Zaman Amar said Wednesday.

"Latest reports that we have collected indicate four dead and 80 others injured," Amar told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Earthquake)

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NEW DELHI -- At least eight people were killed and 16 others injured, some of them critically, after a blast ripped through a firecracker factory on Wednesday in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The blast occurred while raw materials used in firecrackers suddenly caught fire at a factory in Kuruvimalai area of Kancheepuram district, about 80 km southwest of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. (India-Factory-Blast)

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TEHRAN -- At least 14 people were killed and 34 others injured in two road accidents in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan over the past 24 hours, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.

In one of the incidents, 11 people died and one sustained injury in a collision between two sedans on the road from Khash County to the provincial capital of Zahedan on Tuesday night, Fariborz Rashedi, the head of the emergency medical services center of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, was quoted by Tasnim as saying. (Iran-Traffic Accident)

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YAOUNDE -- At least six Cameroonian soldiers were injured in a landmine explosion on Tuesday in the Far North region of the country, according to local and security sources.

The soldiers were driving along the Kolofata-Amchide road in the region when their vehicle hit a mine, a security official in the region told Xinhua. (Cameroon-Landmine Explosion) Enditem

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