SAN FRANCISCO -- A shooting left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday night near the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, local police said.

The shooting took place before 11 p.m. Saturday (0400 GMT Sunday) during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, about 19 miles (30.4 km) north of Austin. (U.S.-Texas-Shooting)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- At least four people were killed and four others injured on Saturday night after their minibus was hit by a truck in Muheza District of Tanga Region in northern Tanzania, police said on Sunday.

Maketi Msangi, the acting Tanga regional police commander, said the accident occurred on Saturday at 9:00 p.m. local time when the truck knocked the minibus at the village of Tanganyika along the Dar es Salaam-Arusha highway. (Tanzania-Accident-Collision)

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ISLAMABAD -- Two people were killed and four others injured in an explosion of an improvised explosive device in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, official sources said.

The incident happened in the Kurram district of the province where a vehicle carrying civilians was hit by a roadside planted device, the sources told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Blast)

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PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan -- At least four people died as a vehicle turned turtle in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province, said a statement of the provincial police headquarters Sunday.

The accident took place Saturday night in the province's Baghlan-e-Markazi district after a vehicle veered off the road and turned turtle on the right side of the street, the statement added. (Afghanistan-Road Accident) Enditem

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