SYRIA: Ordnance from Syria’s 13-year conflict exploded in the coastal city of Lattakia, collapsing a building and killing at least 16 people, the Syrian Civil Defence said yesterday.

The paramedic group, known as the White Helmets, said that it worked overnight, searching through debris and recovered 16 bodies, including five women and five children and that 18 others were injured. 

The group and residents said the explosion occurred in a metal scrap storage space on the ground floor of the four-storey building.

PAKISTAN: A roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying security forces in south-western Pakistan yesterday, killing at least five officers and wounding 10 others, police said.

The attack occurred in Naushki, a district in Balochistan, said Zafar Zamanani, a local police chief.

NORTH MACEDONIA: A massive fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia’s eastern town of Kocani early yesterday, killing 59 people and injuring 155, authorities said.

The blaze broke out at about 2.30am during a concert by a local pop group at Club Pulse, Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski told reporters. 

He said, following an initial assessment, pyrotechnics likely caused the roof to catch fire. 

GERMANY: An assailant poured a liquid over a woman on a tram in eastern Germany yesterday and set her alight, police said. The woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, while the attacker fled.

Police said no other people were hurt in the incident in the eastern city of Gera, German news agency dpa reported. 

Police were searching for the assailant. It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the attack or what exactly the liquid was.