ISLAMABAD -- At least 22 people were killed and over 50 others injured on Sunday after a passenger train derailed in the Sanghar district of Pakistan's southern Sindh province, local police said.

The accident took place when 10 coaches of the Hazara Express train derailed when it was crossing a canal bridge near Sarhari town in the Shahdadpur area of the district, Muhammad Younis Chandio, deputy inspector general of police of the region, told the media. (Pakistan-Train-Derail)

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ULAN BATOR -- Two girls aged 11 and 12 were killed and a boy aged 14 seriously injured due to lightning in western Mongolia, the country's National Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.

The incident happened in Tarialan soum (administrative subdivision) of Uvs province on Saturday evening, the emergency agency said, adding that the injured boy is now under treatment in a local hospital. (Mongolia-Lightning-Deaths)

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QALAT, Afghanistan -- A road accident claimed the life of a driver and injured 19 others in south Afghanistan's Zabul province on Sunday, provincial police spokesman Zabihullah Jawhar said.

A Kabul-bound passenger bus turned turtle in Shar-e-Safa district due to reckless driving, the official added. (Afghanistan-Road Accident)

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MOSCOW -- A woman has died and two men have been injured following a Ukrainian attack on Donetsk's Kuibyshev district, Donetsk Mayor Alexey Kulemzin said Sunday.

As a result of Ukraine's evening shelling of the Kuibyshev district, a woman had died in the backyard of her house, and two men have been injured as a result of the shelling of the Azotny settlement, Kulemzin said in a Telegram post. (Russia-Ukraine) Enditem

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