Tag: Killed

KABUL - A foreign force air raid in central Afghanistan may have killed three Afghan police and wounded three, the NATO-led force said on Monday, the third such incident in more than a month.
Civilian casualties and the mistaken killing of members of the Afghan security forces have been a frequent source of friction between President Hamid Karzai's government and Western military forces in a war now in its 10th year. In southern Kandahar's Spin Boldak town - scene of the

TUNIS - Two civilians were killed and eight injured in overnight clashes with police in a provincial town, the Tunisian government said on Sunday, the deadliest incident in a series of riots that started nearly a month ago.
Witnesses said crowds throwing stones and petrol bombs were clashing with police in another town nearby, and that three people there had been killed by gunfire, but there was no official confirmation of those accounts.
People taking part in the spate of

TEHRAN - An airliner with Iran Air crashed on Sunday near a northwestern city in bad weather and broke into pieces, killing at least 70 of the 105 people on board, state news agency IRNA reported.
"Based on information received so far, 70 people have been killed and 32 injured" in the crash, Heydar Heydari, deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent, told IRNA. The Mehr news agency quoting a medical official as reporting that 70 bodies had been transferred to hospitals.
The

PHOENIX - A US congresswoman and six other people were shot to death in Tucson, Arizona by a gunman who opened fire at a public event, National Public Radio reported, citing the local sheriff's office.
NPR said at least nine other people were wounded in the attack at a grocery store where the Democratic lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords was hosting a "Congress on Your Corner" event with constituents. The wounded included three of her staffers.
It said the suspect ran off and was

LAHORE - A man died while three others including two women were injured in a monetary dispute in Bagbanpura police precincts on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Haider Ali (26), a resident of the Krol Bazaar Baghbanpura. Police investigators told Pakistan Today that no FIR had been lodged against the accused and no on has been arrested till now.
Haider's brother Ghulam Mustafa had a monetary issue with his old business partner, Shakeel Butt. Shakeel with some armed

ABIDJAN - At least 210 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations mission in the crisis-hit west African nation said on Thursday.
At least 31 people have died since the last toll given by the United Nations Mission in Ivory Coast (UNOCI) on December 30, the mission's human rights spokesman Simon Munzu told journalists, bringing the total to 210.
The toll includes those killed during the crisis pitting

SATAFF REPORT - Three tribesmen were killed when an Improvise Explosive Devise (IED) hit a vehicle in South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday.
Reportedly, a vehicle was passing through a link road on Shakai Road when it was hit by an IED which was planted by some unknown saboteurs. Three people were killed in the incident.
First ever agreement between the government and militants through former Corps Commander Lt Gen (Retd) Safdar Hussain and commander Nek Mohammad was signed

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - Mumtaz Qadri who assassinated Punjab governor confessed that he killed Salmaan Taseer because he (the governor) committed what he said 'blasphemy' towards Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
A private Samaa television channel reported that the killer confessed his offence, saying Taseer was gustakh-e-rasool (disrespectful towards prophethood) and death was the ultimate punishment for the sacrilege.
Talking to

Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated in Islamabad by his bodyguard on Tuesday afternoon.
According to initial reports an Elite Force guard fired at Governor Taseer, who was hit in the chest and upper half of the body. The Elite Force guard said he killed governor over defending a Christian woman who was allegedly involved in blasphemy. The guard was identified as Malik Mumtaz Qadri.
Salmaan Taseer recently came to the rescue of a woman condemned to death by a

KARACHI - At least six people, including two activists of Awami National Party (ANP) and two of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), were gunned down on Monday.
Two ANP activists, Muhammad Aziz (son of Sahil) and Tariq (son of Faiz Muhammad), were shot dead by two armed men riding on a motorcycle in an incident reported at Jamia Millia Road. The duo were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where they succumbed to their injuries. Al-Falah police told Pakistan

BAGHDAD - Gun and bomb attacks killed three Iraqis and wounded 15 on Monday, security officials said, while the US military said two US soldiers had been killed, the first to die in Iraq this year. A suicide car bomb exploded on Monday morning outside a police intelligence office in Baquba north of the Iraqi capital, killing a man and wounding 15 other people, a security official and a doctor said.
The bombing targeted the office, located in a central market, at about 11:00 am

LAHORE - The father of a youth, Muhammad Imran, killed in Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's procession has demanded Punjab government to take action against his son's murderers.
Addressing a press conference, Talib said his son was going to the factory for work when he fell victim to the aerial firing at Elahi's procession; two bullets hit him in the head and he died on the spot. He said he was a poor man and the government should ensure justice.
Member National Assembly from PML-N

PESHAWAR - A top Al Qaeda leader and close associate of Osama Bin Laden is said to have been killed in a recent drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, security officials said on Sunday.
The officials said Bin Laden's personal assistant Nasir Al Wahishi, 32, was killed when an unmanned US drone fire four missiles on two compounds of local militants in Ghulam Khan Town, some 20 kilomters northwest of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan. "The high value target was

LONDON - The first British soldier to die in Afghanistan this year was killed in an explosion on New Year's Day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said
on Sunday.
A total of 103 British soldiers were killed in operations last year, the second bloodiest on record for British troops following the 108 killed in 2009 - more than double the 2008 toll.
The rate of British troops being killed has dropped since September 2010 when they handed over to US forces in the flashpoint

ABUJA - A bomb ripped through a crowded market on the edge of an Abuja military barracks on New Year's Eve killing four people and wounding 26 others, 11 of them seriously, the defence minister said Saturday.
"As at this moment, four people died from the blast, including a pregnant woman. Twenty-six others were injured, 11 of them seriously," Adetokunbo Kayode said at the scene of the explosion. It is the second such attack in three months in the Nigerian capital and the first

BRUSSELS - Ninety four journalists died in Pakistan owing to violence this year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Friday, adding that country was the most dangerous place for media workers in 2010.
The Brussels-based organisation said in a report that the journalists and media personnel remained prime targets of political extremists, gangsters and terrorists while three journalists died in different accidents in last 12 months.
The IFJ said that 15

QUETTA - Three people, including a woman, were killed in an armed attack in Jaffarabad district, around 360 kms southeast of Quetta on Tuesday. Per details, unidentified armed men stormed into a house in Goth Azmat Bugti and opened indiscriminate fire on the residents.
As a result, Hassan, Palwar and a woman were killed on the spot. Police rushed to the site after the incident and shifted the bodies to a hospital for autopsy.
Police said the motive behind the killing