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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, March 8

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At least 18 persons lost their lives in an auto crash in northern Nigeria's Bauchi-Jos highway, local police said Monday.

The accident occurred on Sunday after a DAF Truck and a Toyota Hiace bus carrying 18 passengers collided, Mohammed Haruna, the northeast Bauchi state police spokesman, said. (Nigeria-Road Accident)

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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Monday U.S. carried out a drone strike on a training camp of al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Somalia, over the weekend, killing more than 150 fighters of the extremist group.

"The fighters were there training and were training for a large-scale attack," said Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis here, citing initial assessments of the airstrike' effect as saying. (U.S.-Airstrike in Somalia-Deaths)

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DHAKA -- At least two people were killed and dozens of others injured on Monday night in a stampede during a Hindu fair in Bangladeshi's Chittagong district, some 242 km south east capital Dhaka.

Festivities during the famous Shiva fair were marred by a stampede incident in which two people were killed and 30 others injured, a senior police officer said. (Dhaka-Stampede)

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DAMASCUS -- At least five people were killed and many more wounded on Monday by a fresh rocket attack from the rebels in the northern city of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported.

The attack targeted the Sheikh Maqsud district, a day after 14 people were killed by a similar attack against the same neighborhood, according to SANA. (Syria-Aleppo) Endi