Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 7

Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-08 00:00:02|Editor: huaxia
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STOCKHOLM -- A truck rammed into people on a central Stockholm street in Sweden on Friday, with police and witnesses saying three people died and many others were injured in the incident.

"Sweden has been attacked. Everything indicates that this is a terror attack," Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told a press conference. (Stockholm-Truck)

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JUBA -- South Sudan police said Friday that at least six civilians were killed and 13 others injured on Thursday afternoon in separate gun attacks on commercial vehicles.

Police spokesman Daniel Justine Bolo told Xinhua that gunmen fired randomly at a convoy carrying internally displaced people to the eastern town of Pibor, killing four people on spot and injured 13 others about 10 Kilometers east of the capital, Juba. (S. Sudan-Attacks)

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ANKARA -- One worker was killed, three others were wounded in an explosion that occurred at an iron and steel factory in southern Turkish province of Osmaniye on Friday, local private CNN Turk channel reported.

The explosion was reportedly due to gas leak. Efforts to evacuate the wounded are underway.(Turkey-Blast)

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BELGRADE -- A Serbian military aircraft crashed on Friday during training, killing two people, the country's ministry of defense stated in a press release.

The crash took place in the village of Slatina some 60 km south west of Belgrade.(Serbia-Military-Crash)

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DAMASCUS -- At least nine civilians, including four children, were killed Friday by the missile attack that targeted a Syrian base and nearby villages in central Syria, state news agency SANA reported.

Five civilians, including three children, were killed by missiles that targeted the town of Shyrat where the targeted air base is located, said SANA, adding that another missile struck the nearby village of Hmairat, killing four civilians, including a child, and wounding seven others.(Syria-Missile Attack) Enditem

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