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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, July 19

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The death toll from a building collapse in the Indian capital Saturday night has risen to five as rescuers continued to search for possible survivors in the debris of the four-story house, said police Sunday.

The building caved in at Vishnu Garden in west Delhi Saturday night, killing two on the spot and trapping at least dozens of others.

Thirteen people were seriously injured in the incident. (India-Building Collapse)

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DHAKA -- At least 20 people were killed and 30 others wounded in two separate incidents that happened over the weekend in Bangladesh after the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, police confirmed on Sunday.

Six people, three of a family, were buried in mudslide in Bangladesh's southeastern Chittagong port city on Friday night due to heavy rains. The other three persons were of two families. (Bangladesh-Rainfall)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Deadly battles broke out on Sunday between the Shiite Houthi group and Gulf-backed fighters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, in which 45 people were killed and about 170 others wounded, health officials said, two days after the exiled government announced "liberation" of the city.

A senior health official told Xinhua reporter that 45 people, mostly civilians, were killed and about 170 others wounded during the shelling on the residential neighborhoods in Daar Saad district in northern Aden. (Yemen-Fighting)

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- Police had arrested two senior managers of the State Bank of Vietnam's office in southern Long An province for their involvement in the misappropriation of nearly 18.41 trillion Vietnamese dong (829.23 million U.S. dollars) at a Vietnamese bank, local online newspaper Thanh Nien (Young People) News reported Sunday.

The arrest of Ha Tan Phuoc, 53, vice director of the Long An office, and Le Van Thanh, 52, chief inspector of the office, was confirmed by Nguyen Hoang Minh, vice director of the central bank' s branch in Ho Chi Minh City. (Vienam-Arrest) Endi