Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 29

OSLO -- A small airplane crashed on Monday evening in Norway, killing two local people.

The accident happened at around 7 p.m. local time. The crash site has been identified about 1 km south of the Reinsvoll airport in Vestre Toten, Innlandet, 100 km north of the capital Oslo. (Norway-Airplane Crash-Death)

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PRAGUE -- Two people were killed and eight others injured in a traffic accident in the southern Czech Republic on Monday.

The accident happened at around 5 p.m. on the D2 motorway near Hustopec, a town south of the country's second-largest city Brno. (Czech Republic-Road accident-Casualties)

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WASHINGTON -- Two people were killed and four others were injured on Monday morning after a fire rescue helicopter crashed into an apartment complex near Fort Lauderdale, U.S. state of Florida, police said.

Authorities identified the dead as Broward County Sheriff Fire Rescue Captain Terryson Jackson, 50, who was in the helicopter, and an unnamed woman who lived in the apartment building. (US-Helicopter Crash-Death)

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BAGHDAD -- Five Iranian pilgrims and an Iraqi driver were killed and 15 other Iranian pilgrims wounded on Monday in a bus accident in Iraq's eastern province of Wasit, the provincial government said in a statement.

The accident occurred earlier in the day when a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims overturned on the main road between the town of Gassan, near the Iranian-Iraqi border, and the town of al-Daboni, north of the provincial capital Kut, some 180 km southwest of Baghdad, according to the statement published on the Facebook page of the provincial government. (Iraq-Bus Overturn-Casualty)