JOHANNESBURG -- A total of 45 people were killed and several more seriously injured in a bus crash in South Africa's northeastern province of Limpopo, local media reported Thursday.

The 45 dead were worshippers, and they were killed after their bus went out of control, fell over a bridge, and caught fire on the mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken in Limpopo, the South African Broadcasting Corporation said in a report late Thursday. (South Africa-Bus Crash-Casualty)

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GAZA -- The Israeli army has killed over 200 people and arrested around 1,000 others in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in northern Gaza, said the Hamas-run media office on Thursday.

The office said in a statement that the Israeli army continued committing "crimes" against those inside the complex and in its vicinity, with available information indicating "the army's execution of more than 200 displaced citizens and arrest of around 1,000 others." (Gaza-Al-Shifa Hospital-Strikes)

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TEHRAN -- Nine people were killed, and another was injured on Thursday in a collision between two sedans in the central Iranian province of Semnan, the official news agency IRNA reported.

The collision, which was reported at 8:23 a.m. local time (0453 GMT), involved a Hyundai Sonata and a Peugeot 405 on a road from Damghan County in Semnan to Jandaq city in the central province of Isfahan, the IRNA reported. (Iran-Car Crash-Casualties)

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ANTANANARIVO -- Fourteen people were killed and three others injured after tropical Cyclone Gamane landed in Madagascar, with three more people still missing, Madagascar's meteorological authorities said Thursday.

Gamane made landfall on the northern tip of Madagascar Wednesday morning, packing average winds of 150 km per hour and gusts of more than 210 km per hour, accompanied by heavy rains, said Madagascar's National Office for Risk and Disaster Management. (Madagascar-Cyclone Gamane-Devastation) Enditem

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