Tag: Kills

LAHORE - Two young men were killed by wayward aerial fire in the precincts of Sanda police station late night Sunday, police told Pakistan Today.
The deceased, 20-year-old Riyasat and 22-year-old Rangu son of Noor Muhammad, were residents of Fazal Colony, Band Road.
They were both shot by wayward bullets in aerial firing at their neighbour Nadeem Bhatti's wedding, said police. The bullets were allegedly fired by the groom's brothers, Javaid and Vilayat, police added. Riyasat

LAHORE - A 27-year-old woman was strangled to death by her husband who suspected her of having illicit relations with other men in the Allama Iqbal Town Police Station precincts on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Saba, a resident of Neelam Block, Allama Iqbal Town. According to details, Saba married Wasim some years ago but her husband always accused her of having illicit relations with other men and repeatedly quarreled with her.
On Sunday, Wasim again quarreled with

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/KHOST - A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body at a sports field in northern Afghanistan Saturday killing three and wounding 38, a provincial governor said.
Abdulhaq Shafaq, the Faryab governor, said the attack took place in Shirin Tagab district during a buzkashi game, a traditional sport involving grabbing a dead goat or calf from the ground while riding a horse at full gallop.
"A suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body

LAHORE - Officials said a suspected US missile strike killed at least four militants in North Waziristan on Thursday. The officials said the drone strike targeted a house in the North Waziristan where Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban militants were believed to be hiding.
Two intelligence officials said the drone fired two missiles on militant's hideout in Data Khel area.Thursday's drone strike was the eleventh this year.

KANDAHAR - A suicide car bomb attack killed an intelligence agent and wounded 26 other people in an Afghan town on the Pakistan border Thursday, officials said, in the latest in a wave of blasts. The explosives-packed vehicle with two bombers inside blew up in Spin Boldak after intelligence agents acting on a tip-off opened fire in a bid to stop it, Lutfullah Mashal, a spokesman for Afghanistan's national spy agency, said.
"We had intelligence that it was coming. The car was

CHRISTCHURCH - A powerful earthquake killed at least 65 people in New Zealand's second city Christchurch on Tuesday, crushing buildings and vehicles and leaving hundreds trapped and screaming for help. "We may be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day," Prime Minister John Key said after the 6.3-magnitude quake pummelled the city, just six months after buildings were weakened by a 7.0 quake that claimed no victims.
"People are just sitting on the side of the road, their heads in

PESHAWAR - A US drone strike in the lawless tribal region - the second such attack in 24 hours on the area near the Afghan border - killed five militants Monday, security officials said. The strike took place in the mountainous Spalga village, 20 kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan, a hub of Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
"It was a US drone strike which targeted a militant compound, killing five rebels," a senior local security official told AFP,

MOGADISHU - A suicide car bomb ripped through a police base in Mogadishu on Monday, killing nine people after a weekend of bloody fighting between pro-government forces and Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents. According to police sources, at least nine people were killed when the explosives-laden vehicle blew up at the Darwish camp, a site used by a police unit and adjacent to a police academy.
One police officer confirmed that at least six policemen were killed when the blast went off,

QUETTA - Two local leaders of the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad were killed during a search operation by Frontier Corps Balochistan in Totak area of Khuzdar district, around 360kms south of Quetta on Friday. According to government officials, FC personnel conducted a house-to-house search in Totak to pick up some of BSO activists and laid siege to the area.
The sources said firing was also heard from the area, with the security personnel setting two houses on fire. They said

HONG KONG - At least 12 people have died from swine flu in Hong Kong in less than a month, the territory's health authority said Thursday, after the latest death from the disease. A spokeswoman for the health authority said one elderly person had died of confirmed swine flu, while another had died of influenza type A, of which swine flue is a sub-type.
An increase in swine flu cases caused densely populated Hong Kong to step up surveillance for the virus on January 24. Since then

KASUR - A man killed his sister over suspicion at Bhochke in the jurisdiction of Ganda Singh Police Station. Reportedly, Irfan doubted her sister Sidra's character. She tried to prove her innocence in all the matter but her brother did not believe her and on the day of the incident, he killed her by firing.
FIRING IN JUBILATION CLAIMS LIFE: A man was killed in an aerial firing at a marriage ceremony at the village Gohar in the jurisdiction of the Pattoki Police Station.

SAMARRA - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims at a checkpoint outside the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 27 people, police sources said. "The suicide bomber quickly ran into the bus when it stopped at a checkpoint several kilometres (miles) outside Samarra, and detonated his vest inside the vehicle," the police official said.
"About 27 people were killed and about 20 were wounded," he said, giving a toll confirmed by

PESHAWAR - A suicide bomber killed at least 32 army recruits and injured over 30 inside the Punjab Regiment Center in Mardan on Thursday. The high-intensity explosion was heard across Mardan and its surrounding areas. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations, the 19 to 20-year-old suicide bomber succeeded in entering the building in a school uniform and blew himself up when dozens of jawans were busy in routine morning parade.
Though the ISPR

BUCHAREST - An explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Romania, killing five miners at a depth of some 400 metres (1,000 ft) below ground, authorities said late on Saturday. A rescue team found the bodies of the miners, between 30 and 35 years old, who had been working to repair a power transformer, Dan Buhaescu, mayor of the town of Uricani, was quoted as saying by news agency Agerpres.
Mining was once a thriving industry employing almost half a million people in Romania

COLOMBO - Heavy rain triggered flooding in Sri Lanka that killed at least 11 people and is threatening up to 90 percent of the staple rice crop, heightening concern about supply shocks and inflation, officials said on Sunday. Heavy monsoon rain caused flooding across the Eastern, Northern and North Central provinces for the second time in less than a month. More than 250,000 people have been forced into temporary shelters by this latest inundation.
"A large amount is destroyed.

QUETTA - An official from the Frontier Corps was killed in a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti and a vehicle of Uchh gas field escaped a bomb attack in Jaffarabad district on Sunday. According to report FC personnel Sibtain Shah was on his way home within the jurisdiction of Pir Koh when he suddenly stepped on a landmine.
He sustained critical wounds in the blast and was shifted to the PPL hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. In another incident, a vehicle carrying

OKARA - A man allegedly killed his newborn daughter here the other day. The tragic incident took place in the Chokhak Police jurisdiction. Police said the infant, Komal, died when her father dashed her to the ground in a fit of rage. Tasleem Bibi, the mother of the infant, said her husband Muhammad Sharif was not happy over the birth of the baby girl Komal.
Tasleem said she was breast-feeding Komal when her husband came home with three related women Khurshid Bibi, Maqsood Bibi