Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, July 20

JAKARTA -- At least three people were killed and about 150 others rescued after a passenger ship caught fire in the waters of Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Sunday, according to Veri Ariyanto, a senior official at the provincial Search and Rescue Office.

"Three people were killed, and nearly 150 were rescued safely. They were rescued by the joint rescue team and local fishermen's boats," he told Xinhua. (Indonesia-Sea Accident)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 10 people were killed and over 60 others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan's southern Sindh province on Sunday, said police officials.

One of the accidents occurred in Thatta district where a bus carrying picnickers overturned due to over-speeding, resulting in six deaths and over 20 injuries, police sources from the district told Xinhua. (Pakistan-Road-Accident)

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SYDNEY -- Two men died in a plane crash in Australia's state of Queensland on Sunday afternoon.

Local emergency services were called to Oakey, a rural town about 150 km west of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, just after 3 p.m. local time on Sunday after reports of a light plane crash, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday evening. (Australia-Plane Crash)

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BAMAKO -- The Malian army announced on Sunday that at least 70 terrorists were killed during operations earlier this week in northern and central Mali.

According to a statement from the army, the first operation took place on July 15 in coordination with air forces from the Alliance of Sahel States, resulting in the elimination of around 40 terrorists in the Anderamboukan area in the north. (Mali-Terrorism)

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ISLAMABAD -- Nine terrorists were killed and eight others arrested during a joint operation in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over the last four days, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said on Sunday.

The ISPR said in a statement that the intelligence-based operation was conducted by the security forces along with the paramilitary force and the counter-terrorism department of police in Malakand district of the province. (Pakistan-Terrorist-Operation) Enditem