Tag: Kills

SAHIWAL - A woman killed her paramour Javed Iqbal at Chak No 107/7R. Reportedly, Javed developed relations with Sajida. After some time, he severed his relations. On the day of the incident, the enraged woman called Javed at a set place, opened fire and killed him instantly.
LAND DISPUTE CLAIMS LIFE: Mumtaz and four others shot dead Allah Ditta over a land dispute at Chak No 84/5L. Reportedly, Allah Ditta had a lease dispute with Mumtaz. On the day of the incident, MUmtaz and

PESHAWAR - A bomb planted in a car exploded on Saturday killing three passengers and injuring two pedestrians in Khyber Agency, officials said. The bomb, which was on a timer, exploded in a moving car at Barqambarkhel village, they said.
"Three people were killed and two pedestrians were wounded when a time bomb planted in a car exploded," Khyber's top administrative official Shafirullah Khan told AFP.

PESHAWAR - At least 10 people, including two children and two women, were killed and another 32 were injured when a car bomb exploded at Badhabher area of Peshawar on Wednesday. Police said an explosives-laden vehicle had been parked near a bazaar on Teleband Road.
They said the target was the Badhabher police station, but the driver abandoned the vehicle near the bazaar after failing to reach the police station due to the crowded marketplace. The explosion destroyed another

LAHORE - A mugger killed a man on showing resistance at an attempted robbery in the precincts of the Ghalib market police station on Sunday, while Mujahid Squad Police caught the killer.
The deceased, 22-years-old Muhammad Adnan, was a student of Intermediate, originally from Mardan, living in Lahore for studies. According to police, an armed man held Adnan on gun point at the backside of the Home economics collage in Gulberg and tried to robe him.
Adnan showed resistance

KABUL - A suicide attack on a supermarket popular with foreigners killed eight people in the embassy district of the Afghan capital on Friday, the first major attack by the Taliban on civilians in Kabul in nearly a year.
Three foreign women were among the dead, and six people were wounded, Kabul Police Chief Ayub Salangi said. A Reuters reporter saw the body of a child taken away from the gutted supermarket. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast and said they were

LAHORE - An American national associated with the US Consulate in Lahore shot two young motorcyclists while another vehicle used by the US Consulate ran over a man in a bid to rescue the diplomat near Qartaba Chowk on Thursday.
The Old Anarkali Police managed to arrest the American, identified as Raymond Davis, after a brief chase following information that the US officials were involved in a shooting and rescue incident. Davis told police that he opened fire at the two

MANILA - At least two people were killed and 15 injured when a bomb exploded on a crowded bus in the Philippine capital's financial district on Tuesday, authorities said.
The attack occurred two months after the United States and several other Western governments warned a terrorist attack in Manila was imminent, and followed a bus hijacking last year that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. "The explosive must have been placed underneath the passenger seat," Metropolitan Manila

MOSCOW - A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and injured more than 130 on Monday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russia's biggest. President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to track down and punish those behind the attack, which analysts said appeared to fit a pattern of bombings by militants fighting to create an independent "emirate" in Russia's north Caucasus region.
"The explosion was right near me, I was not hit but I felt the shock wave - people were falling," said Yekaterina

QUETTA - Two Bugti tribesmen were killed in a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan on Sunday. According to Levies officials, a landmine laid by unknown militants in Gandari near Loti area of Dera Bugti exploded with a huge explosion when two persons riding a motorbike rolled on it. As a result, both were killed on the spot.
Soon after the blast Levies and other law enforcement agencies rushed to the site and shifted victims to hospital where they were

KARACHI - At least 33 people, including women and children, were killed and 15 injured when a Sukkur-bound passenger bus rammed into an oil tanker in the wee hours of Sunday in Nooriabad located 94km from Karachi, rescue sources told Pakistan Today.
The tanker was moving when the bus crashed into it due to the negligence of the bus driver and, resultantly, both the vehicles caught fire and were completely gutted.
Some passengers managed to climb out of the bus after breaking

TIKRIT - A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of police recruits in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, killing 50 people in the bloodiest attack in more than two months.
The blast, which also wounded 150, was the first major strike in Iraq since the formation of a new government on December 21 and recalled an August attack against an army recruitment centre in Baghdad that also killed dozens.
"I have been trying for hours to call my brother, he was in the queue

LAHORE - A man killed his wife for allegedly having illicit relations in the Ghaziabad Police Station precincts on Tuesday. Police arrested the accused who confessed his crime and admitted that he had also killed his 17-years-old daughter after strangling her neck around five months ago. The deceased was identified as Allah Rakhi, 40, a resident of the Nizamabad Colony, Ghaziabad. According to details, accused Rehmat Ali often suspected her wife's character and severally thrashed her

PUL-E-KHUMRI - A roadside bomb destroyed a car carrying nine people to a wedding in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing everyone inside including one child, the provincial governor said.
The previous day, six civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Helmand province and another six died after an airstrike by foreign forces in mountainous eastern Kunar, local officials said. Three children were among the dead in the airborne attack on two houses in the Kodagai

KABUL - Three NATO soldiers were killed in a Taliban-type bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. No further details, including the exact location of the incident or the nationalities of the victims, were disclosed but most NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are US nationals.
"Three International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern

KANDAHAR - A Taliban suicide bomber on Friday assassinated a police commander and killed 16 others at a public bath in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, the deadliest attack in months.
The militia claimed responsibility for the attack. Policemen, who are generally less well protected than soldiers, are common targets in the Taliban's nine-year insurgency against the Western-backed Afghan government. The bombing underscored the perilous security in parts of the

LAHORE - A man was killed by the stray bullet in the Khana Police station precincts on Wednesday. The relatives of the deceased alleged that the bullet was fired from the Rangers firing centre near their home.
The deceased was identified as Haji Maqbool Ahmad, 63-years-old, a resident of the Engineers Town, Defence road. The nephew of the deceased Zeeshan told Pakistan Today that on the day of incident, Maqbool was reading newspaper on his terrace when a stray bullet hit his

PESHAWAR - In the first drone attack of 2011, three US missile hits at various places in North Waziristan Agency on Saturday killed 15 suspected militants and injured several others.
The US drone targeted militant vehicles and compounds in Speen Wam and Data Khel tehsils of the agency. Speen Wam is considered a crucial route connecting North Waziristan with Thall area of Hangu district, which is adjacent to Kurram and Orakzai agencies, while Data Khel is situated along the Pak