Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 23

LAGOS -- Nigeria's National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) said Wednesday armed bandits have kidnapped 42 passengers en-route to northwestern Kano state in the last 24 hours.

The incidents occurred Between evening of Tuesday and Wednesday's morning, a senior member of the NURTW told PR Nigeria, a local media in Abuja, the country's capital.(Nigeria-Kidnapping)

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ABUJA -- Twelve people have been confirmed killed following an outbreak of cholera in Nigeria's northeastern state of Adamawa, according to health authorities on Wednesday.

A total of 176 cases of cholera have been recorded so far, resulting from a heavy downpour that flooded many sources of water particularly wells in rural communities, said Bwalki Dilli, a public health director in Adamawa.(Nigeria-Cholera)

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KIEV -- Six people were killed and three others injured on Wednesday in a road accident in Ukraine's western Lviv region, authorities said.

The accident happened at about 7:24 a.m. local time (0424 GMT), when a minibus collided with a truck on a road near the village of Verblyany, the State Service for Emergencies said in a statement.(Ukraine-Road Accident)

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COLOMBO -- The death toll from the adverse weather conditions in Sri Lanka rose to 11 on Wednesday, a spokesman here said.

Spokesman for the Sri Lankan Disaster Management Centre (DMC), Pradeep Kodippili told Xinhua on Wednesday that five of these deaths were caused by lightning strikes.(Sri Lanka-Weather) Enditem