Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 24

JAKARTA -- Landslides and floods striking Central Java province of western Indonesia have left 16 people dead and 20 injured, disaster agency said on Saturday.

The natural disasters have taken place in the districts of Brebes and Purbalingga since days ago, spokesman of national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. (Indonesia-Landslide-Death)

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KABUL -- At least nine people, including three assailants, were killed and 22 others wounded in three separate suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, authorities said.

In one attack, one intelligence agency officer was killed and 16 civilians injured after a terrorist detonated a truck bombing in front of a provincial intelligence office in Lashkar Gah city, capital of southern Helmand province. (Afghanistan-Bombings-Terror Attack)

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NEW DELHI -- At least nine students were killed and two dozen others injured Saturday after an over-speeding vehicle ran into students and knocked them down in India's eastern state of Bihar, police said.

The accident took place outside a middle school in village Dharampur of Muzaffarpur district, 95 km north of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. (India-Accident-Road)

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BAGHDAD -- A total of five civilians were kidnapped Saturday in Iraq's central province of Salahudin by armed men who were believed to be Islamic State militants, a provincial police source said.

The incident took place in the morning when the five civilians were on a trip in Sdeirah area in the east of the city of Shirqat, some 280 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Colonel Mohammed Khalaf from Salahudin provincial police told Xinhua. (IS-Iraq-Kidnap) Enditem