Tag: Kills

KHOST - An Afghan child was shot and killed by international forces targeting insurgents in the restive east of the country on Wednesday, police said, triggering a NATO investigation. Coalition forces opened fire from the air on a car carrying a group of militants in eastern Khost province but accidentally struck another vehicle, killing the child, provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told AFP. He said two other civilians were injured in the incident in Khost, one of the

GAZA - Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday near Gaza's border with Israel, medical officials said on Sunday after their bodies were recovered.
The Israeli army said on Saturday that two militants were targeted after approaching a frontier area that Israel has put off-limits to Palestinians, citing attacks against border patrols. The incident followed a barrage of mortar bombs fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas Islamists.

GUWAHATI - At least 21 people in a refugee camp in northeastern India, mostly women and children, died on Saturday after a kitchen fire spread rapidly through huts of bamboo and plastic sheets, a police officer said. The fire destroyed one of six camps in the Kanchanpur area, about 170 km (105 miles) northeast of Tripura state's capital Agartala. The camps house over 14,000 people from the Reang or Bru tribes out of around 40,000 who fled the neighbouring state of Mizoram in October

LAHORE - A drunken car driver ran over two bikers, Mukhtaar and Abdul Ghaffar, on Khayabe-e-Iqbal Road in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) at 1:30 am on Saturday. Shehryar Shahid, a university student and a resident of Gulberg, was under the influence when he rammed his Corolla (LEB 3680) into the bike. A crowd gathered after the incident and handed over Shehryar to the police. Mukhtaar belonged to Sahiwal and taught Quran to children in Lahore while Abdul Ghaffar worked in a DHA

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD - In less than 24 hours after the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, US drones on Thursday targeted a tribal jirga in North Waziristan Agency's Datta Khel tehsil, killing 41 and injuring 15.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Syed Masood Kausar accused the US of targeting the tribal jirga and killing several delegates and personnel of the tribal militia, the Khasadar Force. "I strongly condemn this drone attack. A tribal jirga was targeted in which several

GUJRANWALA - An addicted youth killed his 55-year-old father in the area if Samanabad for preventing him from using drugs. Deceased Muhammad Ilyas, a cobbler by profession, got his son Ghulam Muhammad admitted in a rehabilitation centre. Ghulam Muhammad managed to escape the rehabilitation centre and axed his father to death.
YOUTH STABBED TO DEATH: A youth was stabbed to death by some unknown assailants at village Jalal Balugan on Thursday. Reportedly, 18-year-old Attique Rehman

MIRANSHAH - A US drone missile strike killed at least 38 militants in the Datta Khel region of North Waziristan. There were conflicting accounts about the target of the attack. The area is a stronghold of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a Taliban commander.
One official said the missiles targeted a house as elders loyal to Bahadur were trying to mediate between two warring militant groups inside. Another official said the drone attacked a vehicle in the area that was passing by a house where

KABUL - An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed two children as they were watering fields in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province late on Monday, an Afghan official and lawmaker said. The deaths occurred weeks after tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers were inflamed by the killing of nine children who were collecting firewood in the same province.
Last year was the most lethal for non-combatants since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001,

MIRANSHAH - At least three militants died Monday in a US missile strike on a vehicle in the tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said. The drone fired two missiles on a vehicle and initial reports suggest that three militants were killed, according to a security official, who requested anonymity. Another official confirmed the attack and said it took place about 10 kilometres east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a region infested by Taliban and al

BAGHDAD - A car bomb at an Iraqi army unit in volatile Diyala province killed at least eleven soldiers, officials said Monday, as the Iraqi government continues to battle a stubborn insurgency. Suspected Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militia have stepped up assaults in recent months on Iraqi policemen and soldiers, seeking to undermine faith in the security forces before a full U.S. military withdrawal by the end of this year. The blast took place near an army headquarters in Kanaan,

KABUL - A roadside bomb killed four civilians in southern Afghanistan, authorities said Sunday, as tension over the deaths of non-combatants in military operations rises between Kabul and foreign allies.
The four were killed Saturday when their vehicle struck a bomb planted on a road in Kandahar province, the interior ministry said blaming the strike on the insurgents.
The Taliban frequently use home-made bombs and landmines in their attacks on military targets. The devices

LAHORE - A powerful cylinder blast killed three labourers and injured two others at a gas cylinder manufacturing factory near Police Training School, Choong on Saturday.
The cylinder exploded at a time when workers at MZ Engineering factory were filling gas into a cylinder to check its capacity at around 1pm. The cylinder exploded with a big bang causing destruction. Rescue 1122 officials, Edhi ambulances and police reached the scene and started the rescue operation. The bodies

FAISALABAD - Militants set off a car-bomb at a compressed natural gas (CNG) station in the Civil Lines area of Faisalabad on Tuesday killing 25 people, many of whom were lined up to fill up their cars, police said. The car-bomb set off gas cylinders, causing a big explosion that left a 7-foot deep and 15-foot wide crater in the ground and destroyed or severely damaged nearby buildings and reduced numerous vehicles to blackened shells. Around 40 kilogrammes of explosives were used in

LAHORE - A 50-year-old man was gunned down by his servant in Misri Shah on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Hakeem Malik Farrukh, a resident of Sultanpura, Misri Shah. His wife told police that her husband came from Peshawar on Saturday night and went to his bedroom. She woke up at midnight to see husband her husband's body lying in a pool of blood. Meanwhile, their house servant Qadeer held her and their 13-year-old daughter at gunpoint, threatening them with dire consequences

RAMADI - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank in the northwestern Iraqi city of Haditha on Thursday, killing nine people including three policemen, the town's mayor said. Eight other people, all civilians, were wounded in the midday blast at a branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in Haditha, 210 kilometres (130 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Mayor Bassim Naji said.
"Nine people have been killed in the suicide attack at Al-Rafidain bank," Naji told reporters. A

LAHORE - Four men of a family died while another sustained critical injuries when a truck crashed into trees due to a broken tyre-rod on Bedian Road in the Kahna Police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Shamoon Masih, Niamat Masih, Haneef Masih and Nadeem Masih while the injured was identified as Sharafat Masih. The victims were residents of Manawala village.

KARACHI - A man killed his wife and sister over a domestic issue in the Sir Syed police precincts on Wednesday afternoon. SHO Changez Khan said that Ghulam Akbar, 28, resident of Bilal Colony, opened fire at his wife, Sabina, 22, and sister, Gul Akhtar, 24, over a domestic issue. The women's bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, whereas the culprit managed to escape from the crime scene, he added.
FIR No 113/11 under Section 302 has been registered against the