GAZA -- At least 70 Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, reported the state-run Palestine TV.

Ashraf Al-Qedra, spokesman for the Gaza-based Health Ministry, said in a statement that the death toll is likely to rise as the airstrike hit a crowded residential area. He added that Israeli forces are bombing the central region's main roads between camps, which obstructs ambulances and civil vehicles from reaching targeted locations.

Local sources told Xinhua that most of the killed were women and children, and it is currently difficult for local hospitals to receive more injured people. (Gaza-Israel-Airstrike)

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JAKARTA -- An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others.

Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province, told Xinhua over the phone, "The death toll has reached 13, and dozens of other injured are being treated in hospitals." (Indonesia-Furnace-Explosion)

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KIGOMA -- At least eight people were killed on Saturday evening and six others were injured after a mini-bus collided with a truck in the Kigoma region in western Tanzania, police said on Sunday.

Philemon Maungu, the Kigoma regional commissioner, told a news conference in the Kigona-Ujiji municipality that the collision occurred at 5 p.m. local time Saturday at Mumkugwa village in Kibondo district after the driver of the mini-bus who was driving at high speed failed to control the bus at a sharp corner along the Kibondo-Kakonko highway. (Tanzania-Accident-Highway)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least nine people were killed in a housefire in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said.

The incident happened in Abbottabad district, where the house caved in, following the fire, burying all nine family members under the rubbles, the police told media, adding that nine bodies have been retrieved from the debris. (Pakistan-Fire Accident) Enditem

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