Xinhua world news summary at 0900 GMT, Dec. 26

NEW DELHI -- As many as six pilgrims, including three women, were killed and three others seriously injured when a bus hit them in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu Tuesday.

According to a local police official, the group of devotees from Tirupur district of the state was on a going on foot to a hill shrine in Palani area of Dindigul district, when the bus knocked them down at around 5:30 a.m. (1100 GMT). (India-Road Accident)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A police officer of California Highway Patrol (CHP) was killed when an "errant driver" drifted off the road from Interstate 880 highway and slammed into the patrol vehicle parked nearby, the CHP said Monday.

The 33-year-old CHP officer, Andrew Camilleri, lost his life when he was about to go home for a Christmas reunion with his wife and children just hours from getting off duty, the CHP said. (U.S.-Police Killed)

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NEW DELHI -- Three Pakistani troopers were killed and one wounded in deadly skirmishes with Indian army on the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.

The two sides exchanged heavy fire in Rakhchikri area of frontier Poonch district, about 185 km southwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (India-Pakistan-Crossfire)

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ANKARA -- Turkish security forces on Tuesday arrested 12 people with suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) during anti-terror operations in the southern province of Adana.

The anti-terror police carried out simultaneous raids on several addresses in Adana, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, citing a police official. (Turkey-Attack) Enditem