Tag: Kills

PESHAWAR - A US missile targeting a vehicle in North Waziristan killed at least four people and injured several others on Friday.
Officials in Miranshah said two missiles fired by the drone hit the vehicle in Ghulam Khan, 15 kilometres northwest of Miranshah.
"It was an American drone attack, four militants have been killed, the death toll may rise," a security official said. Another security official in Peshawar also confirmed the attack and the death toll. More than 120

BAGHDAD - A wave of apparently coordinated bomb attacks in Iraq's capital has killed two Christians and wounded 16, further stoking fears in a community already terrified after a massacre at a church there two months ago.
Fourteen bombs were placed at different Christian homes late on Thursday, an interior ministry official said on Friday.
"Two Christians were killed and 16 wounded" by the 10 bombs that went off, while security forces carried out controlled detonations of

KANDAHAR - Fourteen Afghan civilians were killed and four others injured Thursday when a minivan struck a bomb in a Taliban heartland of southern Afghanistan.
The device exploded on a road between the districts of Gereshk and Sangin in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold where US-led international troops are battling hard against the Islamist militants.
"Now we know that 14 people, all civilians including women and children, were martyred and four others, all men, were

PESHAWAR - At least 18 people were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted two vehicles in a village along Thall Road near Mirali town of North Waziristan Agency on Monday.
Officials in Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, said two pick-up trucks were heading to Thall when the drone targeted them in Sheratala village, located in Zara Mela area of Mirali. They said the drone fired seven missiles at the vehicles, killing 18 people on board and

PESHAWAR - At least 46 people were killed and more than 80 injured when a burqa-clad female suicide bomber blew herself up near the World Food Programme (WFP) distribution centre in Khar, headquarters of Bajaur Agency, on Saturday.
The deceased included three personnel of Bajaur Levies Forces. Officials said 61 of the injured were admitted to various hospitals in the area, while 30 were airlifted to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
According to details, the high-intensity

QUITO - Families in Ecuador on Saturday were mourning victims of a Christmas Eve road accident, in which a bus plunged into a precipice, killing at least 41, including seven children.
Rescuers said around 30 passengers had survived, but had been injured, some of them badly. "There's been a very serious accident with approximately 41 people killed," National Transport Council (CNT) director Ricardo Anton told reporters.
Earlier reports put the death toll at 35. Fernando

LAHORE - A student from Aitchison College, reportedly the grandson of PPP-S chairperson and former Interior Affairs minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, has been accused of murdering one of his Aitchisonian friends.
The deceased, Mahd Faisal, who was accidentally shot and injured by his friend Muhammad Waleed Sherpao on December 20 at a party in the North Cantonment Police precincts, died in the Neurosurgery Ward of the General Hospital on Thursday.
Mahd was a student of Class C1

TEHRAN - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Iran, wrecking villages, bringing down power lines, and killing up to seven people and injuring hundreds more, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
The late Monday quake, with its epicentre near the town of Hosseinabad in Kerman province, was followed by more than 30 further tremors, including one of 5.0 magnitude, the Mehr news agency said, quoting the geophysics department of Tehran university. State media reported that mild

PESHAWAR: In the first ever drone attack in Khyber Agency, a US unmanned aircraft targeted a vehicle in Speen Drang area of Bara tehsil's Tirah valley on Thursday, killing seven suspected militants, tribal officials said.
The officials said a US drone fired a missile at a pick-up truck carrying seven suspected militants.
"The militants were said to be members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, and were from Waziristan and Swat areas," a security official said.
Locals

KABUL: A roadside bomb killed 14 civilians in western Afghanistan on Thursday and four Afghan soldiers died in a US air strike overnight, hours before a US strategy review reported progress in the Afghan war.
Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan since US-backed Afghan forces ousted the Taliban in 2001 after the September 11 Al Qaeda attacks on the United States, with record civilian and military casualties.
US President Barack Obama's review said "notable operational

TEHRAN: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia religious procession in the Iranian city of Chabahar on Wednesday killing at least 39 people in the latest violence to rock the southeastern border region.
A pathologist cited by the official IRNA news agency said 38 bodies had been brought to the town's mortuary, among them women and children. A 39th casualty later succumbed to his wounds, the pathologist said.
The bomber struck in a central square where worshippers were

ALGIERS: Algerian troops killed 10 Islamist rebels on Friday in the eastern Kabylie region known as a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a security source told Reuters on Saturday.
Between 3,500 and 4,000 troops backed by helicopters attacked a site between the cities of Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou after intelligence officials heard that AQIM was planning to hold a meeting in the region.
"The operation is still ongoing and ten terrorists have been killed,"

LAHORE: A man killed his wife over some domestic issue on Friday in the jurisdiction of Ferozwallah Police Station. Reportedly, 43-year-old Sakeena, a resident of Ferozwallah, married Ramzan twelve years ago and owned four children. Police officials said that the couple used to quarrel over the matters related to money because Ramzan was unemployed for more than four months.
They added that Sakeena demanded money from his husband upon which he started beating her with the wooden

SANTIAGO: Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital early on Wednesday, killing 81 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, prison officials said, in the worst-ever accident in the country's jail system.
Officials said the fire was triggered during an early-morning fight between inmates in one of the crowded prison's five towers. Television footage showed part of the San Miguel prison in flames, black smoke billowing from the building.
Frantic relatives of the

MOSCOW: The brother of a Russian regional leader was one of two passengers killed in a crash landing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Saturday that also injured 82 people, the Investigations Committee said on Sunday.
The incident "lead to the death of two passengers, and 82 were hospitalised.
Among the dead...(is) Gadzhimurad Magomedov," a statement on the Investigations Committee website said.
Magomedov, 49, is the brother of the president of Russia's Republic of

PESHAWAR: At least six people were killed and another 19 were injured when a suicide bomber attacked a police vehicle at Meelad Square in Bannu police precincts on Tuesday.
The suicide bomber blew himself up near the police vehicle which was on routine patrol. Police officials said the vehicle was completely destroyed while nearby shops were partially damaged. "It was a suicide attack. The bomber came on foot and detonated himself near a police van close to a police station,"

SEOUL: North Korea fired a deadly barrage of artillery shells onto a South Korean island on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers in one of the most serious border incidents since the 1950-53 war, inciting global condemnation.
South Korea's military went on top alert, its troops fired back with cannon and the government met in an underground war room, officials said, in response to what Seoul called an atrocity against civilians.
North Korea's supreme command, however,