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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 16

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Twenty-four people were killed while several others injured in a road traffic accident in the northern town of Serenje in Zambia, the police confirmed on Friday.

The accident, which occurred in the early hours of Friday happened when a bus carrying 69 passengers coming from the northern town of Nakonde failed to negotiate a curve and flipped, killing 21 people on the spot. (Zambia-Road Accident)

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MOGADISHU -- Troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), alongside the Somalia National Army (SNA), have killed a senior commander of the Al-Shabaab Islamist group during an operation in southern Somalia.

AMISOM force spokesperson, Joe Kibet, told Xinhua on Friday that Mohamed Hassan, the Al-Shabaab commander for Awdhegle town, was killed on Thursday evening. (Somalia-Al-Shabaab)

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PARIS -- An explosion, likely induced by gas leak, rocked a building in the eastern French town of Dijon on Friday, wounding an least nine people, a local newspaper reported.

Dijon Mayor Francois Rebsamen told the Le Bien Public daily that "an extremely violent" explosion blew a building in the downtown and injured at least nine inhabitants with one in critical condition. (France-Explosion)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 14 people were killed and 25 others injured when a bomb went off inside a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area of Mohmand Agency on Friday afternoon, local Urdu media reported.

The Aaj News reported that the explosion happened during Friday prayers in Amber town located near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. (Pakistan-Blast)

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KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- The Afghan security forces have killed 18 Taliban fighters and forced them to retreat from 20 villages in the northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman said Friday.

"The security forces after days of heavy fighting were able to liberate 20 more villages from Taliban clutches in Qala-e-Zal district after killing 18 militants and injuring more than 30 others on Thursday," spokesman Ghulam Hazrat Karimi told reporters. (Afghanistan-Taliban-Operation) Endi