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At least 103 people were killed and about 100 others were rescued after a boat capsized in the country's central state of Kwara, police said.

In a shocking incident, a man forced his 10-year-old son to sit on a railway track as a form of punishment in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district, police said.

A couple who got married recently and three children from the woman's first marriage, were found dead at their home near Cherupuzha in Kerala's Kannur on Wednesday.

Three persons have been arrested in connection with the rape of a married woman and attempt to forcefully convert her religion in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district, police said.

A 24-year-old man shot his bride-to-be dead at her residence here and later hanged himself, police said on Wednesday.

A school girl was killed and six others, including five students and a teacher, injured in firing inside a school in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said.

A couple were killed after being hit by a speeding train in Kanpur's Bilhaur, police said.

At least three people were killed and multiple others were injured in a shooting in Farmington, southwestern US state of New Mexico, police said.

A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his girlfriend's family after the two were caught together here.

A man in Lucknow committed suicide after strangling his six-year-old son to death, police said, adding that he had also attempted to kill his daughter.