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A 40-year-old Indonesian man was killed when his mother’s coffin fell from a funeral tower and crushed him during a service on the island of Sulawesi on Sunday.

The deceased, Samen Kondorura, died from severe head injury when pallbearers lost their footing while carrying the coffin up a bamboo ladder in the Parinding valley in North Toraja district, local police said.

Tragedy as multiple suicide blasts in Borno kill at least 31

Nigeria - Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on a town in northeast Nigeria, a local official and militia leader told AFP on Sunday.

Two blasts ripped through the town of Damboa in Borno state on Saturday evening targeting people returning from celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in an attack bearing all the hallmarks of Boko Haram.

Confirmed! Nigeria's electricity drops by 1,087mw due to gas rupture

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) yesterday said that the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) lost 1,087Mega Watts (MW) owing to gas pipeline rupture and challenges with Shell gas wells.

The situation, according to TCN General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, culminated in load-shedding nationwide to stabilise the grid.