JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Two children were killed and three others injured as unknown men threw grenades into a house in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, provincial police spokesman Abdul Basir Zabuli said Tuesday.

According to the official, the incident occurred in the Shiekh Musri locality of Surkhrod district late Monday night when unidentified men threw two grenades into a house, killing two children on the spot and injuring three other people, including a woman. (Afghanistan-Grenade attack)

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SINGAPORE -- More than 4.7 kg of heroin was recently seized from a Malaysia-registered car at Singapore's Woodlands Checkpoint, according to a joint statement by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Tuesday.

Officers from the ICA and the CNB on Aug. 5 discovered ten bundles of heroin in the car, with an estimated value of more than 331,400 Singapore dollars (around 24,6260 U.S. dollars), the statement said. (Singpoare-Drug-Seizure)

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COLOMBO -- More than 58,000 dengue cases have been reported in Sri Lanka with 38 deaths this year, according to the health ministry's national dengue control unit.

The unit said on Tuesday that nearly 50 percent of cases had been reported from the country's western province. The unit has identified 47 high risk areas in the country. (Sri Lanka-Dengue Death)

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VIENTIANE -- The landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed two people in Bolikhamxay province, some 200 km southeast from the Lao capital Vientiane, as authorities raced to help victims of floods in the central provinces of the country.

Two people were killed by the landslide last Friday, while both of them had gone into a forested area to look for food. During the night, heavy and continuous rains caused a landslide at the mountain which killed both of them, according to local Bolikhamxay newspaper report on Monday. (Laos-Landslide-Death) Enditem

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