MOGADISHU -- Somali National Army (SNA) backed by local forces on Thursday killed 33 al-Shabab militants and injured several others in a special operation near Harardhere town in central Somalia, officials said.

Deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Abdirahman Yusuf Al-Adala said that the forces targeted a primary base of the militant group, resulting in casualties, destroyed the al-Shabab command center and seized weapons cache. (Somalia-Counterterrorism-al-Shabab)

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NAIROBI -- Kenya has intensified its flood response countrywide as the death toll from devastating flash floods has risen to 165.

Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura said that ongoing rescue efforts have saved lives, including the recent rescue of five police officers and relocation of 80 individuals to safer grounds in the coastal Lamu region. (Kenya-Fighting-Flood)

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MANILA -- The pilot of a Piper plane that crashed in Isabela province in the northern Philippines a week ago was found dead on Thursday, said Constante Foronda, head of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.

He said the rescuers found the "lifeless" body of the pilot around 11 a.m. local time Thursday at the crash site in San Mariano town. (Philippines-Aircraft-Accident)

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KIEV -- Six people were killed and five others injured Thursday in a road crash involving three vehicles in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, the regional department of the State Service for Emergencies said in a statement.

A passenger car, a minibus and a truck collided at 7:24 a.m. local time (0524 GMT) near the village of Novopavlivka on international highway M-03, linking the Ukrainian capital with the Russian border. (Ukraine-Vehicle Collision)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least three people were killed and another injured after a fire engulfed a plaza in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday, officials said.

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui confirmed the deaths in a statement, stating that the bodies were found during a search operation in the multi-story commercial-cum-residential building located near the Ayesha Manzil area after firefighters extinguished the blaze. (Pakistan-Fire-Death) Enditem

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