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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 6

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At least four people were injured after mortar shell rounds landed at a residential area near Qatari embassy in Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, the police said.

Police officer Mohamed Nur told Xinhua the mortar shells landed near the embassy shortly after 8 pm local time, hours after a car bomb claimed six lives and ten injuries in Mogadishu. (Somalia-Blast)

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BERLIN -- An ultra light plane crashed on Wednesday in the German city of Hannover, killing two people, local media reported.

According to firemen, the light plane hit a high-voltage line and crashed, two passengers were found dead and unidentified.

"The crash happened shortly after 18:00", said Michael Hahn, a fire department spokesman. According to witnesses, a big bang was heard before they saw the plane fell down. (Germany-Plane-Crash)

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TIRANA -- Albanian police announced Wednesday that they on Tuesday seized one ton of hashish in the coast of Karaburun, south Albania.

Police found the drugs around 100 meters away from the shore, which were divided in 96 packages of different sizes. (Albania-Drugs)

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TEHRAN -- A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province of Iran on Thursday at 00:37 local time (Wednesday 2007 GMT), Iranian Seismological Center reported.

The earthquake, with a depth of 9 km, hit Sefid Sang village in Fariman town of Iran's Khorasan Razavi province. (Iran-Quake) Endi