Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 2

Two persons were slightly injured in the train derailment Monday evening in Dortmund, a city in Germany's state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said.

The accident happened shortly before 7 p.m. when the high-speed train ICE 945 from Dusseldorf to Berlin was arriving at the Dortmund Central Railway Station. The last three of the seven carriages of the train jumped out of the tenth track of the railway station, the police said via twitter. (Germany-Derailment-Dortmund)

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BOGOTA -- Eight people were killed on Monday when a military aircraft crashed into a hill in central Colombia, said President Juan Manuel Santos.

"Our solidarity is with relatives of the victims of the plane crash of @COL_EJERCITO in Cundinamarca. Eight people lost their lives," Santos Tweeted. (Colombia-Aircraft-Crash)

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HOUSTON -- At least one person was killed and three others injured Monday in a stabbing attack on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), which is located at the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas.

The attack occurred outside of the Gregory Gymnasium in East Campus just after 1:30 p.m. local time and the suspect, who is also a student of the university, has been in custody and identified as the 21-year-old Kendrex J. White, according to the police. (Texas-Stabbing-Austin)

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TEHRAN -- A bus carrying German tourists overturned in Iran's southern Fars province on Monday, killing two and injuring 18, Asr Iran news website reported, quoting the traffic police commander of Fars.

The accident took place in Sa'adat Abad region in Fars. The injured people were sent to the medical centers, the report said. Two injured tourists are in critical condition. (Iran-German-Accident) Endi