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Images of firefighters trying to contain the fire that killed at least three people and injured nearly 300 after a truck packed with cylinders exploded just before midnight on Thursday night, turning the sky orange and setting fire to nearby homes and parked cars. IMAGES
More than 2,400 people were killed in Haiti since the start of 2023 amid rampant gang violence, including over 350 killed in lynchings by locals and vigilante groups, the UN says. "Between January 1 and August 15 of this year, at least 2,439 people have been killed and a further 902 injured," UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani tells reporters in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Images from the scene of the bus accident in northern Senegal that killed at least 23 people. IMAGES
The coffin of Carène Mezino, a 37-year-old nurse stabbed to death at the end of May in Reims hospital by a mentally disturbed man, is carried in the hearse in front of the Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims, in the presence of several hundred people, including the Minister of Health, François Braun. IMAGES
The body of Irish United Nations peacekeeper Private Sean Rooney, 23, who was killed after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) convoy came under fire near the village of Al-Aqbiya, in the south of the country, is repatriated to Dublin. IMAGES