LOME — Togo on Thursday launched a massive immunization campaign against meningitis epidemic as the death toll increased from 16 to 29 in about ten days.
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ACCRA — The death toll in Wednesday night’s gory road crash rose to 63 by late Thursday, a medical officer at the Kintampo Government Hospital told local media.
According to him, more passengers, including pregnant women and children brought to the hospital had died.(Ghana-Crash)
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LONDON — The Leicester Royal Infirmary has closed three wards after 14 cancer patients were diagnosed with swine flu, according to a report by BBC on Thursday.
The patients, who are suffering with the H1N1 strain of influenza, have been isolated to avoid an outbreak, BBC quoted the hospital as saying.(Britain-Swine Flu)
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KHARTOUM — The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector on Thursday claimed killing 16 government soldiers in Blue Nile State, but the Sudanese army denied the claim.
“The fighters of the movement ambushed Wednesday a Sudanese army unit at al-Yarmouk area, some seven km south of Bot town in Blue Nile State,” Sudan Tribune Thursday quoted Arno Taloudy, spokesman of SPLM/northern sector, as saying in a statement.(Sudan-Rebel-Clash)
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RAMALLAH — Two Palestinian teenagers were critically wounded on Thursday after they stabbed two Israelis; one of them was killed at an Israeli settlement east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian medics said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that two 14-year-old Palestinian teenagers called Ayham Sbeih and Omer Rimawi were critically wounded by Israeli security guards of the settlement near Ramallah.(Stabbing-Attack-West Bank) Enditem
Source: Xinhua
