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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, June 2

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Four people have been seriously injured after two carriages collided on the "Smiler" ride at Alton Towers, a famous theme park in Staffordshire, on Tuesday afternoon.

Merlin Entertainment, which runs the resort, said in a statement: "There has been an incident on the Smiler this afternoon involving two carriages coming together on a low section of the track. One of the carriages was empty and the other had 16 guests in it." (Britain-Carriages Collision)

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GENEVA -- The Zurich cantonal police of Switzerland reported on Tuesday that hundreds of litres of formaldehyde, a toxic liquid, leaked from a lorry carrying hazardous merchandise in the Uetliberg motorway tunnel, south of Zurich on A3.

According to authorities, the incident happened shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning, and was the result of the lorry driver having to perform an emergency break to avoid a careless manoeuvre carried out by another driver in the tunnel. (Switzerland-Toxic Liquid)

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ABUJA -- At least a dozen people were feared dead Tuesday when a blast went off in a livestock market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, a security source said.

Many local traders were affected in the bomb blast at Gamboru, a big market in the city, the security source who preferred to be anonymous told Xinhua.(Nigeria-Market-Blast)

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WASHINGTON -- A plane arriving at Philadelphia International Airport was evacuated Tuesday morning after the airport received a bomb threat, local media reported.

Shortly after the plane landed on the runway at about 6:30 a.m. local time at Philadelphia International Airport, police and a bomb squad started searching the plane for possible multiple devices aboard U.S. Airways Flight 648 as indicated earlier by the threat. (US-Plane-Emergency)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian authorities detained late Monday two senior leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, state-run Ahram newspaper reported.

The two leaders, Mohammed Ghozlan and Abdurrahman Al-Bar, were holed up in apartments in Giza province's 6th of October district. Both had been handed down death sentences in absentia over violence and murder charges.(Egypt-MB-Sentence) Endi