Tag: Killed

QUETTA - Six persons, including four children, belonging to a same family were killed as a rocket hit their house in Jaffarabad district. According to the police sources, the rocket landed on the residence of Pehalu Khan Bugti in Goth Hyer-ud-Din. As a result, the house owner and his wife besides four young daughters lost their lives.
The attack was carried out on the night between Friday and Saturday from the nearby mountains while the victims were asleep. Following the attack,

PESHAWAR - At least six people were killed and two others injured in two simultaneous drone attacks in Khaisoora area close to Mir Ali town of North Waziristan on Friday.
A US drone fired two missiles at a pickup truck in Khaisoora. After a few minutes, the drone fired two more missiles. Following the attack, local militants cordoned off the area and did not allow tribesmen near the scene. However, reliable sources said six people had been killed and two had been injured.

TANGSE - Flash floods blamed on illegal logging killed 13 people and left six missing in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials and a resident said on Friday. Thousands of people had to be evacuated as water surged through villages following hours of heavy rain on Thursday. "We found eight dead bodies and are still searching for six people reportedly missing," local official Muhammad Jafar told AFP in Tangse, a town 180 kilometres (110 miles) southeast of the provincial capital Banda

HAFIZABAD - A couple was murdered in the name of honour while their infant was injured in village Ghari Gondal in the jurisdiction of Pindi Bhattain Police Station.
Reportedly, Sikandar, a resident of Ghari Gondal, married a girl Rukhsana Shan, a resident of village Kot Sarwar, against the will of her parents two year ago and, both of them, left the area for the sake of their life. The couple returned to the village after Rukhsana gave birth to a baby. After their return, some

LAHORE - Kabeer Saleem alias Vicky, 7, a prep-class student and and a resident of Kot Khawaja Saeed, was killed by unidentified men after sexually assualting him in Gujjarpura Police precincts on Thursday. Police said that around 9am on Thursday, Gujjarpura Police received a call at rescue 15 number by a laborer, who informed them about the body of a minor boy buried under sand inside an under-construction boys high school building located in the same area. Local police reached the

KANDAHAR - A relative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been killed by international forces, Karzai's brother and officials said on Thursday. The president's brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, told AFP that a relative, who he described as "our father's cousin," was shot dead near his home in the family's village in southern Kandahar province by the US-led NATO force overnight.
"It was a mistake," Ahmad Wali Karzai said. "The forces conducted an operation, he was at his home, he came

CAIRO - Thirteen people were killed in violence between Egyptian Christians and Muslims, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, as sectarian tensions that appeared to evaporate in the country's revolution resurfaced. The Health Ministry said 140 people were wounded, state media reported.
The violence in Cairo on Tuesday night was the worst outbreak of sectarian strife since President Hosni Mubarak was swept from power on Feb. 11 by a mass uprising characterised by solidarity

ALGIERS - A bomb struck a vehicle in Algeria and killed five people, media reported on Wednesday, in the deadliest attack in months as the country battles violence blamed on Islamist militants.
Three of the people killed in Tuesday's blast were from the same family, local media reported. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, which struck close to Djelfa, about 270 kilometres south of the capital Algiers.
The previous most deadly incident was in October last

KHARTOUM - Clashes between the southern army and a rebel militia group in south Sudan's Upper Nile state have left more than 40 people dead, including seven soldiers, southern army spokesman Philip Aguer said on Monday. "There was fighting on Sunday between the SPLA and a former militia group under Ulony, a militia commander who had been in the service of Khartoum for a long time," the spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Army told AFP.
The militiamen attacked a group of

GUJRANWALA - Three brothers were killed instantly after a road accident at Pasrur Road. Reportedly, Nasir, Shahid and Gulraiz were coming from Talwandi Musa Khan to Gujranwala on a motorcycle. When they reached near village Gaggarkay, a speedy passenger van crushed them to death. A large number of villagers gathered there and informed the police about the incident. Rescue 1122 also reached the spot and shifted their dead bodies to the district headquarters hospital.

PESHAWAR - At least five militants were killed in a clash with security forces in border region of Swat Valley, the officials said on Sunday. They said a group of militants attempted to enter Swat when security forces intercepted them near Barikot Town on late Saturday night. Three of militants killed were identified as Sher Ali son of Wazir Zada resident of Aboha Swat, Mohammad Zaib son of Sherin of Mangalthaan Charbagh Swat and Fazal Hussain son of Omar Hussain of Kotha Barikot.