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Nigerian troops have rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several of the Islamic extremist group’s camps in the north east, according to the army.

The PKK claimed responsibility for Monday’s bombing of the police station in which four people died, three of them attackers.

A vehicle bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the global airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.

At least five people were killed Monday when a Taliban suicide auto bomber struck near the entrance of Kabul’s worldwide airport, the latest in a wave of lethal bombings in the Afghan capital.

A auto bomb exploded at the entrance Kabul’s the worldwide airport Monday, killing at least five people in the latest bloodshed following a 24-hour blitz of Taliban bombings and attacks last week.

Sabon Gari village is settlement along Damboa – Biu road and is 50 kilometers away from Biu, the largest town in southern part of Borno State.

State police commissioner Aderemi Opadokun confirmed the attack but gave a lower toll, saying seven people had been killed.

“Boko Haram attacked the village of Tchakamari at around one in the morning Tuesday, killing at least six people“, a soldier sent to the site of the attack told AFP.

Nigerian troops have rescued at least 178 hostages from Boko Haram following a military operation over the weekend that dismantled a number of the group’s camps in northeastern Borno State, according to an army spokesman.

Twelve coaches of the Kamayani Express to Varanasi from Mumbai derailed near Harda in the central state of Madhya Pradesh just before midnight. He said that all passengers have been rescued and those with minor injuries were provided with first aid.

Meanwhile, suspected Boko Haram insurgents early Tuesday killed at least nine people and kidnapped dozens, including children and teenagers, from a village in Cameroun on the border with Nigeria, according to local leader.

Al Jazeera’s Nidhi Dutt, reporting from New Delhi, said there were reports that at least 300 people had been rescued but witnesses were giving accounts “that many people may have been washed away”. Dozens were rushed to hospital.

At least 12 people died after two passenger trains derailed within minutes of each other in central India, officials said Wednesday. Harda district officials said, water was flowing over the tracks when the last five bogies of Kamayani Express derailed.

At least seven people were killed and about 20 others were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in an overnight raid on a village near Cameroon’s northern border, a senior military officer said on Tuesday.

Nigeria’s army has reported freeing almost 180 hostages held by Boko Haram jihadists in a rescue operation in the war-torn northeast of the country. The military said 67 of those freed were women.