Tag: Kill

Gunmen kill adviser to Yemen defence ministry

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a military adviser to Yemen’s defence ministry, an Iraqi national, in central Sanaa on Tuesday, a security official said. Speaking...

Spate of Iraq attacks kill at least six

A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad killed at least six people and wounded several others on Monday,...

Gunmen kill Yemeni security staff at US mission

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni security official employed by the US embassy in Sanaa in a hit-and-run attack on Thursday, a security...

Assassin claims Nargis hired him to kill drama producer

A hired assassin arrested by the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) has alleged that stage and film actress Nargis had employed him to kill a...

Shebab threaten to kill Somali lawmakers ‘one-by-one’

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was...

Syria rebels kill 18 soldiers, clash near Aleppo airport

Syrian rebels killed at least 18 soldiers in a car bomb and ground attack on a military position in Idlib province on Wednesday, as...

Gunmen kill south Yemen separatist

Unknown gunmen shot dead a south Yemen separatist on Sunday when they fired at a protest camp in the port city of Aden, an...

Venezuela in mourning after refinery blast kills 39

Venezuela was in mourning Sunday after a massive explosion tore through the country’s largest refinery, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than...

Gunmen kill 19 people in attack on Nigerian church

Gunmen have opened fire on an evangelical church during a service in central Nigeria, killing at least 19 people in the latest such...

Gunmen kill 2 sailors, kidnap 4 foreigners in Nigeria

Gunmen attacked a barge belonging to an oil services company off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian sailors and kidnapping four...

Attacks on Iraq checkpoints kill eight

Three attacks on separate checkpoints north of Baghdad on Thursday killed eight people, including four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, Iraqi officials said. Unknown gunmen...

Police killed suspected Taliban militant in Punjab

Punjab police on Wednesday killed suspected Taliban militant near Multan, officials said. According to local police officials, CID police on tip intercepted a vehicle near...

Beware! Hepatitis to kill 5m during next decade

Over 5 million people could die of viral hepatitis in the next decade in South-East Asia region, according World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates. The hepatitis...

Iraq attacks kill 32

A truck bomb at a crowded market in central Iraq killed 25 people on Tuesday while attacks elsewhere in the country claimed seven lives,...

US drone kills six militants: official

A US drone attack on a militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area killed six insurgents on Sunday, security officials said. The unmanned aircraft fired...

It takes a silver bullet to kill anti-Taliban peace lashkar chief

Peshawar and its outskirts saw widespread unrest as the news of assassination of chief of a pro-peace lashkar, Bazidkhel Qaumi Lashkar, Faheem-ur-Rehman, and three...

Heavy rains, landslides kill 94 in Bangladesh

More than 90 people have been killed in landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods and severed transport...