ABUJA — At least 12 individuals have been killed early Friday following an explosion from an oil pipeline in Nigeria’s southern state of Rivers, the police stated.
The explosion within the Rumuekpe group within the Emuoha native authorities space of Rivers occurred as native residents have been scooping oil from an oil pipeline passing the group, stated Grace Iringe-Koko, the spokesperson for the police in Rivers, in a press release. (Nigeria-Oil Pipeline Explosion-Death Toll)
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JAKARTA — One soldier and one civilian have been killed in Indonesia’s jap province of Central Papua after being shot by armed separatists on Friday.
Military spokesperson within the province Herman Taryaman instructed native media that the soldier died of a gunshot wound sustained in the course of the insurgent assault, which occurred when various troopers have been evacuating a civilian already shot lifeless by the separatists in a village within the province’s district of Puncak. (Indonesia-Separatist-Killing)
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JOHANNESBURG — Sixteen individuals have been killed on Friday morning in a site visitors accident involving two minibus taxis and a heavy car on the R579 in Motetema, Limpopo Province, the Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety stated.
“The accident is suspected of having happened this morning when a minibus taxi collided head-on with a truck and another minibus taxi after overtaking unsafely,” Tidimalo Chuene, the division’s spokesperson, instructed Xinhua. (South Africa-Car Crash)
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MOSCOW — The diesel-electric submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky of the Russian Pacific Fleet test-launched a Caliber cruise missile from the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry stated Friday.
As a part of a fight coaching plan, the submarine secretly arrived on the designated space within the Sea of Japan and launched the missile from underwater, which efficiently hit a coastal goal situated over 1,000 km away in Russia’s Khabarovsk area, the ministry stated in a press release. (Russia-Submarine-Missile Test)