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A |     New Delhi, Oct 15 (UNI) India slipped six ranks on the Global Hunger Index 2022 to be placed at the 107th position out of 121 countries ranked.

India is ranked behind all south Asian countries except the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

The publishers of Global Hunger Index –- European NGOs Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe -– have labelled the level of hunger as “serious”, as India scored 29.1. The GHI score is calculated on a 100-point scale reflecting the severity of hunger, where zero is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.

The Global Hunger Index scores are based on the values of four component indicators – undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, child mortality.

India ranks below Sri Lanka (64), Nepal (81), Bangladesh (84), and Pakistan (99).

Afghanistan (109) is the only country in South Asia that performs worse than India on the index.

China is among those countries ranked between 1 and 17, with a score of less than five.

UNI ING。    Abuja, Oct 18 (UNI) A church attack in Nigeria's central region has killed two and injured several others, Nigerian police said.



The incident occurred late Sunday when a group of unknown gunmen shot indiscriminately at worshippers attending a program at a Celestial Church of Christ in the Felele area of central state Kogi, said William Ovye-Aya, spokesman of the state's police in the state capital, Lokoja on Monday.



Ovye-Aya said police responded to an emergency call but found two female worshippers already killed and several wounded others in blood. The gunmen fled the scene when police arrived.



The police official said that they are hunting the attackers and that the victims' bodies have been deposited in a morgue while the wounded are being treated in a nearby hospital. No arrest has been declared yet.

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