Tag: Killed

PESHAWAR - Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said.
The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border.
Lieutenant-General Asif Yasin Malik, the seniormost officer in the

KARACHI Four people were killed in road accidents in the city on Monday. Two men were killed in a road mishap in Keamari within the limits of the Jackson police station on Monday. Police said that the two men, Mohammad Saeed, 25, and Naveed Anjum, 20, were on their way on a motorcycle when a truck bearing registration number PNQ 303 hit them near the Ziauddin Hospital.
Saeed was died on the spot and Naveed succumbed to his injuries at the Civil Hospital Karachi. The police have

ADEN - A massive blast killed at least 110 people on Monday at an ammunition plant in southern Yemen looted by Al Qaeda, as tracts of the south slip out of Sanaa's control in the thick of an anti-regime revolt. A security official said the explosion came as dozens of residents were inside the factory helping themselves to whatever ammunition was left after Sunday's raid by suspected Al Qaeda fighters. A local official, Nasser al-Mansari, told AFP between 75 and 80 were killed but that

ADEN - The death toll in an ammunition factory blast in south Yemen rose to between 50 and 55, doctors at a government hospital in the town of Jaar said. Witnesses said the blast took place after Jaar residents broke into the factory to steal ammunition a day after clashes broke out in the town between militants and the army.
Earlier reports indicated that 58 others were wounded by the blast.

PESHAWAR - Four people were killed when unidentified terrorists fired a rocket on a vehicle in Lower Kurram on Sunday, official sources said. The assailants, armed with automatic weapons, fired a rocket at the vehicle in Shaheedano village in Kurram Agency, killing four people and injuring several others, said the sources, adding that the victims also included a woman. They said the injured had been immediately rushed to a nearby hospital.

PESHAWAR - At least four persons were killed when rockets were fired at a passenger vehicle in Kurram Agency early Sunday morning.
the militants fired four rockets at a passenger van in Shahdan Dhand border area, killing four people, including a woman.
The victims are Afghans, who were returning to their country from Kurram Agency.

KABUL - Seven civilians, three of them children, were killed and five others wounded in a NATO air strike targeting insurgents in restive southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The governor of Helmand province said the two men, two women and three children died when the car they were travelling in was hit by NATO fire late Friday.
Earlier, NATO said its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) called in an air strike on two vehicles believed to be carrying a

KABUL - Afghan civilians were killed and wounded in an air strike by international forces targeting a Taliban commander in the volatile southern province of Helmand, NATO said Saturday, giving no details of numbers.
It said the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) called in an airstrike on two vehicles believed to be carrying a Taliban leader and his associates, but later discovered they were transporting civilians.
"Afghan civilians were accidentally killed and

PESHAWAR - At least eight people were killed and another eight injured on Friday when armed assailants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying passengers to Parachinar, officials said. The militants also took 45 people hostage and took along three vehicles after the attack.
The caravan of vehicles was on way to Parachinar from Lower Kurram agency when it was attacked near Bagan, considered a stronghold of militants in Kurram agency. The attackers torched two of the five buses in

YANGON - At least 75 people were killed and hundreds left homeless on Friday after a strong earthquake hit Myanmar, with fears that the death toll could rise significantly.
Buildings were flattened close to the epicentre while terrified residents fled their homes as tremors were felt as far away as Bangkok, Hanoi and parts of China when the magnitude 6.8 quake hit late on Thursday. Myanmar state television confirmed a toll of 74 dead and 111 injured.
Nearly 400 homes

MURIDKE - At least two armed people killed two brothers over old enmity when they were entering the court of Ferozwala additional sessions judge in the custody of police. Reportedly, as the police entered Ferozwala Additional Sessions Judge Rehan Bashir's court, two armed people opened fire on two real brothers Yousuf and Riaz who were in the custody of the police. The firing caused their instant death while other four people Zahida, Azama, Riaz and Nadeem received serious injuries.

PARACHINAR - Militants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying members of an anti-Taliban tribe on the Afghan border on Friday, killing eight and wounding five, tribesmen and government officials said.
The militants also kidnapped nearly 40 people after the attack on the convoy near Bagan, a militant stronghold in the tribal region of Kurram, where Pakistani troops have killed several hundred insurgents in fighting in the past few years.
"It was the convoy of five buses that

HAFIZABAD - A dacoit gang's ringleader was killed in an alleged police encounter in the precincts of Police Station Pindi Bhattian. Reportedly, Faisal, a resident of Mohallah Hassan Town, was wanted in various robbery incidents. He along with his four accomplices came to village Ghari Gondal to commit a robbery. Pindi Bhattian police got the information and reached the spot. On seeing the police, the gang opened fire. Faisal was killed in the cross-fire.
His four accomplices,

DERAA - The main hospital in the southern Syrian city of Deraa has received the bodies of at least 37 protesters who were killed in a confrontation with security forces, a hospital official said.
Security forces opened fire on hundreds of youths at the northern entrance to Deraa, according to witnesses, in a dramatic escalation of nearly a week of protests in which at least 44 civilians have been killed since Friday.
Around 20,000 people marched on Thursday in the funerals

QUETTA - A policeman was among four people killed and seventeen injured in a rocket attack in Quetta on Wednesday. Three rockets were fired from the western side of the provincial capital, all of which landed in a populated area.
One of the rockets, believed to have been fired by Baloch militants landed at Sariab Patak, close to the personal residence of Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani. The first attack killed four people, including Traffic Sergeant Safdar Hussain.
The

MINGAWARA - Foiling an attempt by the militant to enter Swat from Lower Dir, the security forces shot dead six of them and recovered a huge quantity in early hours on Tuesday.
The security forces were on routine patrolling on the borders with Lower Dir at Matta when they noticed a group of militants and asked them to surrender but they refused. It triggered an encounter during which all the six militants were shot dead.
The officials confirmed the identity of three them from

SAHIWAL - At least two people were killed in a road accident near Yousafwala as a car rammed into a parked truck. Reportedly, a speedy car rammed into a truck parked on the roadside near Yousafwala. Resultantly, Rana Muneer and Rana Shakeel, residents of Chak No 54-2L were killed instantly. Yousafwala police have registered a case and started investigation.