Tag: Killed

BREGA - At least 10 rebels were killed by a coalition air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said on Saturday, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi's forces over the oil town of Brega.
With the more experienced and better organised rebel army locked in combat with Gaddafi's forces, hundreds of young, inexperienced volunteers could be seen fleeing east towards Ajdabiyah, after coming under heavy mortar and machinegun fire.
A Reuters correspondent at the

MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Eleven people, including three foreign United Nations (UN) workers, five Nepalese UN guards and three protesters, were killed on Friday in an attack on a UN headquarters in northern Afghanistan by demonstrators protesting at the desecration of the Holy Quran by a US pastor, police said.
"Ten (UN) people have been killed by the protesters ... All those killed are foreigners," police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. A spokesman for the UN mission in Kabul, Don

KABUL - Ten foreign UN workers were killed Friday in an attack on the UN headquarters in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif by demonstrators protesting at the burning of the Koran by a US pastor, police told AFP.

PESHAWAR - At least five terrorists were killed and three security personnel were injured in a clash following an attack by terrorists on a security forces' check post in Upper Orakzai Agency on Friday.
According to a private TV, a group of armed terrorists attacked security forces with rockets and automated weapons, injuring three security personnel.
However, security men retaliated befittingly, killing five terrorists. After the incident, security forces started search

PESHAWAR - At least 14 people, including two policemen, were killed and more than 31 injured in the second attack in as many days targeting Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman on Thursday. The bomber attacked Fazl's procession en route to Charsadda for a rally, but Fazl and senior JUI-F leaders, including former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Akram Khan Durrani and former federal minister Azam Swati, were not harmed. Two of Fazl's personal bodyguards, however,

QUETTA - Six people, including a Baloch tribal elder, were killed by a remote-controlled bomb near the Iranian border in Balochistan on Thursday, officials said. The fireball engulfed the car of tribal elder Reham Dil in Quar town in the insurgency-hit Balochistan, local police official Abdul Salam said. "Reham Dil, his son, three guards and a servant died in the blast," he said.
A local administration official confirmed the casualties, saying that the blast set the car alight

QUETTA - Gunmen in Balochistan opened fire on a tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing its driver and setting the vehicle ablaze, officials said. The attack took place near the town of Wadh in Khuzdar district, local police official Jumma Khan told AFP.
Unidentified gunmen flagged the vehicle to stop and opened fire when the driver ignored them, Khan said, adding that the driver was killed and his helper was wounded.

LONDON - About 1,000 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the British government said in a human rights report published on Thursday.
"Whilst there has been no official death toll, several sources report that approximately 1,000 people have already been killed and many more have been injured during the recent violence," the report from Britain's Foreign Office said.
The Foreign Office also said

LAHORE - Dacoits shot a 40 year old man dead for retaliating during a robbery in Sanda Police precincts while in Cantt and Liaqatabad police areas robbers have shot and injured 2 people on Wednesday.
The deceased named as Roedaad Khan was a resident of Mardan and was working at a local workshop as a gate keeper. According to the details the victim was having dinner with his son when robbers burst into the house. On retaliating the victim was shot and brought to a hospital in

PESHAWAR - At least 10 people, including two policemen, were killed and more than 20 injured in a suicide attack near the Motorway Interchange in Swabi on Wednesday. The attack took place a shortly before the arrival of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman for a public gathering.
The injured were admitted to hospitals in Peshawar and Swabi and several were stated to be in serious condition. District Police Officer Ijaz Khan Mohmand told Pakistan Today that a

MINGAWARA - Three militants were killed in clashes with the security forces at Gawaleri area of Matta Tehsil in early hours of Tuesday. The officials informed that three militants, who were earlier arrested, were taken to determine the dumping site of arms and weapons in an unpopulated area near to village Gawaleri when they made an attempt to escape.
However, the officials foiled their attempt to do so. All three militants, identified as as Sajid Ali son of Mohammad Zada and Ata

PESHAWAR - Friendly fire killed the 13 Pakistani soldiers whose deaths were initially blamed on Islamist militants in the Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border, a commander said Tuesday.
Security officials at first had said that 14 soldiers were killed during fighting on Monday in the Shindhand area of Khyber Agency. But northwest military commander Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik told reporters on Tuesday that 13 soldiers died due to mortar fire called in by the

GUJRANWALA - A peasant was killed and seven others were injured critically over a minor dispute at village Macharawan in the vicinity of Wahndo Police Station. A police source said that following a children's quarrel in the village, Irfan, Khalil, Arslan, Javed, Maqsood, Sajjad and Ramzan attacked the house of Muhammad Javed and axed him to death.
The attackers also critically injured Muhammad Riaz, Ilyas, Pervez, Nasir, Moazzam and two others. All the injured were rushed to