At least eight people have died across Europe as an early summer heatwave grips much of the continent.
This has triggered health alerts and forest fires forcing the closure of a nuclear reactor at a Swiss power plant.
Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia region said about 14,000 people were ordered to stay indoors due to two wildfires that broke out almost simultaneously in the province of Lleida
Three people have been killed and 45 injured following an attack by Ukraine on a factory in the city of Izhevsk - more than 1,000km from the border. Of those injured six had suffered serious injuries, the governor of Udmurtia, Aleksandr Brechalov said. They had briefed President Vladimir Putin on the attack. A state of emergency was later declared in the region. Drones reportedly targeted the Kupol Electromechanical Plant - a military factory which is said to produce Tor surface-to-air missile systems and radar stations. The plant also specialises in the production of Osa air defence systems and has developed drones, according to Ukrainian media. A Ukrainian official confirmed that two long-range drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Kupol plant from a distance of around 1,300 km.
Rescue and recovery efforts will continue until the entire site has been cleared
At least 36 people have been confirmed dead after a powerful explosion triggered a fire at a pharmaceutical factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana. A government panel has been formed to investigate the cause of the disaster.
The factory’s operations have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. The blast, which erupted on Monday afternoon at a facility run by Sigachi Industries, took place in the plant’s spray dryer unit. The section is used to convert raw materials into powder for drug manufacturing. The factory is located roughly 50km from Hyderabad, the state capital.
Over 40 people have been killed after a bus and a minibus collided in Tanzania. The collision sparked off a fire that engulfed both vehicles in Sabasaba, Kilimanjaro region. One of the bus’s tyres was punctured, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
Among the 38 people confirmed dead, two are women while 36 bodies are unidentified due to the extent of burns. The nationalities of the victims were not immediately known. Twenty-eight people were injured, six of them still hospitalized.
Twenty-nine children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crash after a nearby explosion caused panic.
The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community hospital.
"The noise of the explosion, combined with smoke" caused alarm among 6,000 students sitting the baccalaureate at a school in the capital, Bangui.
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