BOSNIA: A school employee shot and killed three people today in a school in Sanski Most, police said. The shooter was severely injured after trying to kill himself.

The shooting took place in a secondary school building in the town, about 180 miles north-west of Sarajevo, said regional police spokesman Adnan Beganovic.

IRAN: A bus carrying Shi’ite pilgrims from Pakistan to Iraq has crashed in central Iran, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 23, an official said today.

The accident happened on Tuesday night in the central Iranian province of Yazd, local emergency official Mohammad Ali Malekzadeh told the IRNA news agency.

CONGO: More than 1,000 new mpox cases emerged in the last week up to Tuesday, Congolese authorities reported today, as African health authorities asked for desperately needed vaccines to help fight the growing threat. 

The World Health Organisation has declared the outbreaks in Africa a global emergency.

Out of a total of 18,910 mpox cases this year 17,794 were in Congo, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

GERMANY: Two men accused of planning an attack in Sweden for an affiliate of the Islamic State group in response to the burning of copies of the Koran have been charged in Germany, where they were arrested earlier this year, prosecutors said today.

The two Afghan citizens, identified only as Ibrahim M G and Ramin N in line with German privacy rules, were charged with conspiring to commit a crime and violating export laws. Ibrahim M G was charged with membership in a terrorist organisation and Ramin N with supporting one.