Tag: Killed

Twenty-five foreign fighters were killed and wounded by Afghan security forces after they crossed the border from Pakistan, a government official said, the first...

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday condemned the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad by US special forces, saying the...

Two criminals were killed and thirteen arrested in a rangers search operation in Mehmoodabad area of Karachi. Spokesperson Sindh Rangers told that two these...

Troops and snipers killed six civilians on Saturday as Syrians prepared to bury scores of people killed in a “day of rage” and the...

One soldier was killed and five were wounded in an explosion at an army camp in Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on...

Yemen's security forces and loyalists of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh shot dead two protesters in separate demonstrations on Monday, medics and witnesses told...

QUETTA - A man was shot dead in Kech district and a corpse was found in the Awaran area of Balochistan on Wednesday. Reportedly, unidentified armed assailants opened fire on man in Mand, Kech near the Pak-Iran border. As a result, he received serious wounds and died while being moved to a hospital.
However, the name of deceased and the motive behind the killing could not be ascertained immediately. Levies registered a case against unidentified assailants and investigations into

KARACHI - At least six more people were gunned down in Karachi in various incidents of targeted killings on Tuesday. Bodies of five people were recovered from various parts of the city. A 30-year-old man, Aamir Ali, was found dead in Korangi No 6.
Awami Colony police said the victim was a worker of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H Afaq). The body of 35-year-old Ziaullah was found from Fauji Fertilizer Company, Shah Latif Town. Another body was found near Degree College,

DAMASCUS - Syria imposed on Tuesday a total ban on all demonstrations after warning of a crackdown on an "armed revolt" by Islamist radicals and as four people died when security forces fired on protesters in the city of Homs. Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar told people "to refrain from taking part in all marches, demonstrations or sit-ins under any banner whatsoever", state news agency SANA reported. He warned that if demonstrations were held, "the laws in force in Syria

KARACHI - At least five more people, including PPP and MQM workers, fell victim to the current spate of targeted killings in Karachi on Monday. Tension gripped parts of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Orangi Town after the murders of political activists by unidentified motorcyclists. PPP activist Asghar Ali alias Behari was killed while his friend Ahmed Ali was injured when two motorcyclists opened fire at them in Bangla Bazaar.
Orangi Town Police Officer Khurram Waris told Pakistan Today

ATHENS - Nigeria international Olubayo Adefemi has been killed in a car accident, the Greek Football Federation have announced. Greek media report that the 25-year-old Xanthi defender skidded off a road on Monday morning while driving to Salonika to finalise arrangements for his wedding.
Adefemi joined Xanthi from French side Boulogne last summer and had made 24 league appearances this season, scoring twice. "The Greek Football Federation expresses its grief at the untimely

DAMASCUS - At least seven people were killed when Syrian security forces fired into a crowd in the flashpoint town of Homs, as nationwide protests showed no sign of abating, rights activists said on Monday. The deaths occurred when security forces opened fire with live rounds late Sunday to disperse demonstrators in the Bab Sba'a area of the town, 160 kilometres (100 miles) to the north of Damascus, witnesses said.
Two activists, who declined to be identified, spoke of seven

TOKYO - Six children were killed on their way to school Monday morning after they were hit by a crane truck that veered from its lane on a clear straight road and crashed into a building, police said. The driver Masato Shibata, 26, was arrested on the spot on a street in Kanuma city in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. The six children, aged nine to eleven, were pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency physician or at hospital, said the police

KABUL - A suicide attacker in an army uniform has been killed after entering the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul, a security source speaking anonymously told AFP, confirming local media reports Monday.
"He has not detonated, he has been shot. His suicide vest is still on him," the source said. However, local television reported that three people had been injured in the attack.
A separate military source, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that three

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombs exploded at an entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, an interior ministry official said.
The attack occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the entrance to the Green Zone, where many foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices are based, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

SAHIWAL - One person was killed and another injured in a road accident near Bhutto Nagar the other day. A truck of TMA was removing encroachments. All of a sudden, a motorcycle collided with the truck, resulting in the instant death of Najma Bibi and grievous injuries to Ijaz. The injured was taken to the DHQ hospital for treatment.
PRISONER DIES OF HEART ATTACK: A prisoner died in Central Jail Sahiwal the other day. Prisoner Atif along with his two brothers was facing a murder

JALALABAD - At least four soldiers were killed and eight others injured when a suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army base in eastern Laghman province on Saturday, health officials in neighboring Nangarhar province said.
"So far four killed army personnel and eight injured people have been admitted to Jalalabad hospital this morning," a doctor who declined to be named said.
He said the death toll could rise since some injured people were in critical conditions.
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