Tag: Kills
Saudi-led airstrike kills 17 in contested Yemeni port city
CAIRO: Yemeni rebel officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels has killed at least 17 people in the port-city of...
Landslide kills 34 in eastern Uganda
KAMPALA: At least 34 people have died in mudslides triggered by torrential rains in a mountainous area of eastern Uganda that is prone to...
Afghan policeman kills 2 officers in latest ‘insider attack’
KABUL: Two Afghan police officers were gunned down by a fellow policeman in southern Kandahar province, the latest in so-called "insider" attacks in the...
Bus crash in south India kills at least 45 people
HYDERABAD: A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road Tuesday, killing at least 45...
Colombia kills ‘most dangerous’ FARC dissident
BOGOTA: Colombian armed forces killed "the most dangerous" dissident guerrilla from now-disbanded Marxist rebels FARC on Saturday in the drug violence-infested jungle area on...
Flooding kills dozens in North Korea, thousands left homeless
GENEVA: Severe flooding in North Korea has killed at least 76 people with nearly the same number missing and thousands left homeless by the...
Syria strike kills 8 pro-regime fighters
BEIRUT: An air strike near a US base in southeastern Syria has killed at least eight pro-government fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
Israeli gunfire kills 2 Gaza border protesters: Palestinians
GAZA CITY: Israel troops on Friday shot dead two Palestinians taking part in protests along the Gaza border, the Palestinian health ministry in the...
Bus crash in Ecuador kills 23 people, injures 14
BOGOTA: Ecuadorean officials say at least 23 people died and another 14 were injured when a long-distance bus overturned on a highway near Ecuador's...
Egypt raid kills six suspected militants
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces killed six suspected militants in a raid on a house on the outskirts of Cairo, an interior ministry statement said...
US military airstrike in Somalia kills 4 al-Shabab fighters
MOGADISHU: The US military says it has carried out an airstrike in Somalia that killed four members of the al-Shabab extremist group.
The US Africa...
Attack on security convoy in Kabul kills 3
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a convoy belonging to the Afghan intelligence service in Kabul on Thursday, killing three officers and wounding five...
Mosque suicide bombing in north Nigeria kills 7, injures 7
MAIDUGURI: Nigerian officials say that seven people have been killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Konduga town in the country's north.
Bello...
Somalia’s al Shabaab says it storms military base, kills 27 troops
MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab fighters detonated a suicide car bomb before storming a military base in the south of Somalia on Monday and killing 27...
Boko Haram kills six traders in Nigeria ambush: locals
KANO: Boko Haram fighters killed six traders when they ambushed a convoy of lorries under military escort in northeast Nigeria, a civilian militia member...
Israeli air strike kills Hamas man in Gaza
GAZA: An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip killed a member of the Islamist militant Hamas group on Thursday and wounded three others,...
Indonesia mob kills hundreds of crocodiles after man dies
JAKARTA: A mob slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles at a breeding ground in Indonesia's West Papua province in retaliation for the death of a local...