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Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 1630 GMT, Sept. 7

Xinhua, September 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 15 police personnel were feared killed overnight Sunday after coalition forces mistakenly attacked their vehicles in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, local officials said on Monday.

"According to initial information, a unit of Special Counter Narcotic Police Force was conducting an operation in Reg locality in southern of provincial capital Lashkar Gah last night. The eight-vehicle convoy was attacked mistakenly by NATO-led forces' war planes, causing 15 police killed and four others wounded," a provincial security official anonymously told Xinhua. (Afghanistan- Friendly Fire)

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BANGKOK -- A foreign suspect in the Aug. 17 Bangkok bombing, who was apprehended on Sept. 1, has admitted to having handed a bomb to a yellow-shirted man suspected to be the bomber, local media reported Monday.

The detained suspect, whose nationality has yet to be confirmed, told investigators that he had been ordered by the mastermind, identified as "Izaan," to buy bomb-making materials from the Internet, the Nation newspaper quoted a source as saying. ( Thailand-Bombing-Suspect)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The body of a male victim was recovered on Monday in the waters off the west coast of Malaysia, bringing the death toll of a shipwreck last week to 62, according to Malaysian authorities.

Mohamad Faaiz Mohd Noor, director commander of Klang Maritime District Operations, said the body was found at about 3:25 p.m. local time (0735 GMT) around six nautical miles from the site of the incident. (Malaysia-Shipwreck-Toll)

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HANOI -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong will pay an official visit to Japan next week.

The visit, scheduled for Sept. 15-18, will be made at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to the official online newspaper of the CPV on Monday. (Vietnam-Japan- Visit) Endi