Two persons including an editor of a magazine were on Monday hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, hours after a prison guard was shot dead in a separate incident.
A police official said suspected extremists have killed a university professor in Bangladesh's Rajshahi district, some 256 km northwest of capital Dhaka.
Six people were killed, including a journalist and a leader of the infamous drug cartel Los Zetas, in a shooting rampage Thursday in the city of Orizaba in Veracruz, western Mexico, local authority said.
The final death toll in the fighting that occurred last week in the Burundian province of Cibitoke near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) rose to 99, a spokesman with Burundian Army said Monday.
Two German diplomats survived Monday an attack on their car by unknown assailants in Saudi Arabia's Qatif governorate, Saudi Press Agency quoted local police as saying.