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Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, Oct. 24

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Three people were killed and six others injured in two suicide bomb attacks in the night from Sunday to Monday in Far North Region of Cameroon, national radio CRTV reported.

"The first of the attacks occurred in the locality of Sandawadjiri, a villager bordering Nigeria, when two women broke into the place and were spotted by members of the Vigilance Committee," said the report citing a statement by Communication Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary. (Cameroon-Bomb attacks)

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PARIS -- French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday confirmed that an aircraft had crashed at Malta International Airport killed all five French people on board.

"The plane crash caused the death of three French defense ministry officials and two private contractors," Le Drian said in a statement. (France-Plane Crash-Malta)

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OUAGADOUGOU -- Burkina Faso' Police on Sunday killed an alleged jihadist Saturday night during dismantling operation in the north-west suburb of the capital Ouagadougou.

The alleged jihadist, with an explosive and a pistol in hand, was killed during gunfire exchange as security and defense forces were dismantling jihad supporters recruitment network, police said in a news release. (Burkina Faso-Police-Jihadist)

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JAKARTA -- One person was killed with a number of facilities damaged as flooding struck West Java province of western Indonesia on Monday, official of disaster agency said.

Heavy downpours triggered waters at a dam and a river overflowed that submerged the provincial capital and several other towns by up to 1 meter, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of national disaster management agency told Xinhua via phone. (Indonesia-Flood) Endi