NewsOvernight reports: Israeli airstrikes target Hezbollah successor amid crisis
Overnight reports: Israeli airstrikes target Hezbollah successor amid crisis
It happened while you were sleeping. Here's what the global agencies reported overnight from Thursday to Friday.
- In Israeli attacks on Lebanon on Thursday, 37 people died, and 151 were injured, according to the Ministry of Health in Beirut. Israel carried out further airstrikes on Beirut. According to media reports, one of the targets was Hashem Safieddine, considered the successor to the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last Friday.
- Ongoing heavy rains in Croatia caused the River Sava, which flows through Zagreb, to overflow its banks on Thursday. According to Croatian authorities, the country implemented flood control measures in anticipation of the situation worsening on Friday. "On Thursday, a decision was made to implement emergency flood control measures in threatened areas where riverbanks have burst, and there is a tendency for further increase," the Croatian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
- The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared a 60-day state of emergency in the capital, Quito, and six out of twenty-four provinces due to escalating violence from armed drug gangs. The head of state emphasised that the wave of violence has reached the proportions of an "internal armed conflict." - We are at war. We cannot surrender to these terrorists. We are doing what is necessary to eliminate insecurity. These gangs think that they will break the president by raiding television broadcasts and taking security forces hostage, but they will not succeed, said Noboa, referring to riots organised by criminals who ended up in Ecuadorian prisons, having hundreds of murders in the country on their conscience, the Ecuadorian leader stated.
- In the province of Balochistan, in southwest Pakistan, a bus carrying wedding guests fell into a gorge on Thursday. Seven people died in the accident, authorities and rescue services reported. According to Wasim Baig, a spokesperson for the health department, the bodies of the victims and 17 people injured in the accident were taken to a local hospital. Some of the injured are in critical condition.
