DAMASCUS, May 12, 2012 Two suicide car bombs ripped through the Syrian capital on Thursday, killing 55 people and shaving the facade off a military intelligence building in the deadliest explosions since the country’s uprising began 14 months ago, the Interior Ministry said. Residents told an Associated Press reporter that the blasts happened in quick succession during morning rush hour, with an initial small explosion followed by a larger bomb that appeared aimed at onlookers ...
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Islamabad, May 12, 2012 A policeman was killed and 17 others were injured on Saturday in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar city when a roadside bomb targeted a security van that was taking prisoners to a court. The bomb targeted a police van on the main road at Gulbahar area, police officials and witnesses said. The police van was destroyed by the blast. Several other vehicles were also damaged. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, where a policeman died of ...
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KIEV, Ukraine, April 29, 2012 President Viktor Yanukovych says investigators have not yet determined who was responsible for four explosions in an eastern Ukrainian city and are offering a 2 million hryvna ($250,000) reward for information leading to an arrest. A total of 27 people were injured on Friday when bombs blew up in garbage bins in Dnipropetrovsk. Many Ukrainian officials have called the blasts terrorist attacks. The opposition, however, claims they could be part of a ...
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BEIRUT, March 17, 2012 Syrian state television says at least 27 people were killed and 97 wounded in twin car bomb blasts that hit initelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital on Saturday. State TV, citing the Health Minister, said further body parts had also been found, meaning the toll could rise. A Syrian official earlier said there were reports of a third blast targeting a military bus at the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, but there were no details. He ...
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New Delhi, March 14, 2012 The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday filed its first charge sheet in the 2011 Delhi High Court blast case, indicting six persons who according to the agency aimed to threaten the judiciary so as to get 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's death sentence commuted. The blast outside Gate 5 of the Delhi High Court on September 7, 2011, killed 15 people and left scores of others injured. Three of the six persons chargesheeted — Wasim ...
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BRAZZAVILLE (Republic of Congo), March 5, 2012 Blasts rocked the capital of the Republic of Congo Sunday morning after a weapons’ depot caught fire, officials said, killing at least 206 people and forcing thousands to flee. A morgue in Brazzaville took in 136 bodies Sunday afternoon, as more continued to arrive. A local hospital reported at least 237 patients wounded in the blasts. Sunday’s blasts flattened many buildings in the northern part of Brazzaville and ...
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New Delhi, February 15, 2012 Even as the hunt is on for a motorcyclist who attached an improvised explosive magnetic device to an Israeli diplomat's car on Aurangazeb Road here on Monday, the Delhi Police have sought footage of the closed-circuit television cameras in nearby buildings, the Israeli Embassy and the Canadian High Commission. “We have sought the footage of the past seven-eight days. As the Canadian High Commission is located close to the spot, we have ...
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BANGKOK, February 15, 2012 A day after the blasts in a residential neighbourhood, Thai authorities said they were still investigating possible links. Top security agencies called a news conference on Wednesday in which authorities admitted to being caught by surprise and said they had little information about who the alleged attackers were and their possible targets. National Security Council chief Wichean Potephosree said authorities had not determined if there was any link ...
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NEW DELHI, February 14, 2012 Monday's attempted assassination of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi — and Tel Aviv's reflexive indictment of Tehran for the incident — threatens to put India bang in the middle of escalating tensions in West Asia and raises new fears about its vulnerability to international terrorism. Tal Yehoshua Koren, an embassy official who is also the wife of Israel's defence attaché, sustained serious injuries when a bomb fixed to her Innova car ...
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KOCHI, January 17, 2012 After traversing the seas for 44 years — first as the Royal Navy's HMS Andromeda from 1968 to November 1994 and in its current avatar as one of Indian Navy's First Training Squadron Ships, INS Krishna, from August 1995 — is set to sing its swan song. On Tuesday, it will embark on its last voyage, setting course for Mumbai from the Southern Naval Command's south jetty for a minor refit before being decommissioned later this year. ...
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KABUL, May 31, 2011 (AP) A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the gates of an Italian military base Monday in one of two attacks on the relatively secure western city of Herat, killing at least five Afghans in a major commercial centre slated to be handed over by NATO to Afghan control in July. The bombings claimed by the Taliban were the second major attack in three days as insurgents expand their targets outside the southern and eastern theatres that were the focus of ...
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Sanaa, May 26, 2011 (AP) Government troops have clashed with fighters led by Yemen’s most powerful tribe for four straight days. The latest deaths bring the toll to at least 109 killed. Yemen’s Defence Ministry says 28 have been killed in an explosion at a weapons storage facility in western Sanaa. The opposition, however, disputes the government’s account and says the latest deaths occurred early Thursday during heavy shelling of a residential area by troops loyal to Yemen’s ...
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ISLAMABAD, May 13, 2011 In what is being billed as al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden striking from his grave, suicide bombers killed 80 people and injured over 100 in the north-west Pakistani town of Charsadda on Friday morning. Claiming responsibility for the attack on a camp of the Frontier Constabulary, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has threatened more such strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan to avenge bin Laden's killing. This is the bloodiest suicide attack in recent months. The two ...
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SAN JUAN DE SABINAS (Mexico), May 7, 2011 Rescue crews on Friday recovered three more bodies from a coal mine in northern Mexico hit by a gas explosion earlier this week, raising the confirmed death toll to nine. Excavations continued in the town of San Juan Sabinas, in northern Coahuila state, for five other miners trapped and apparently killed by the blast Tuesday. Officials have said there is little or no hope anyone survived the explosion at the primitive, vertical-shaft mine. The ...
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ISLAMABAD, April 21 -- At least 15 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a blast that ripped through a gambler den in the old city of Karachi in southern Pakistan late Thursday night, reported local Urdu TV Channel Geo, adding that the blast was of a suicide ...
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Baghdad, April 18, 2011 At least five people were killed and 15 injured Monday when two suicide car bombs exploded near the Green Zone in Baghdad, a security official said. The victims include both civilians and soldiers, according to Qassim Atta, head of Baghdad’s Operations Command. The attack took place at the western entrance to the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area which houses government offices and many foreign ...
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Srinagar, April 8, 2011 Prominent religious figure and Jamiat-e-Ahli Hadees chief Moulvi Showkat Ahmad Shah was on Friday killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast outside a mosque in Maisuma area of the city, police officials said. Mr. Shah, who was critically injured in the explosion which took place around 12.30 p.m., was rushed to a city hospital where he succumbed to injuries, they said. Another youth, identified as Munir Ahmad Mir, was also critically injured in the ...
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Islamabad, January 21, 2012 Over 40 people were feared killed in a coal mine collapse triggered by a series of methane gas explosions inside a mine in Balochistan. The first of the blasts took place on Sunday and the initial death toll was put around 10 with over 40 trapped. But with the recovery of over a score bodies on Monday, hopes have begun to fade. According to officials, 52 miners were working in the over 4,000-feet deep mine when a series of explosions occurred around 2 a.m. on ...
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February 24, 2011 The U.N. Secretary General expressed disgust that the Libyan ruler had not responded positively to a string appeal by him. On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council issued a strongly worded statement calling on the Libyan regime to stop attacking pro-democracy protesters U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has blasted Muammar Qadhafi for ignoring his call to stop a violent crackdown against protesters in Libya, warning that the situation could turn “very dangerous” in the North ...
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Mumbai/Pune, February 13, 2011 The claims of Mumbai's Anti-Terror Squad of having cracked the German Bakery case seems to have hit a roadblock with a key accused claiming that he had been detained several weeks before the blast and senior home ministry officials terming the case as "unsolved". Notwithstanding the chargesheet filed by ATS holding Himayat Baig as an accused in the Pune blast, which took place on February 13 last year killing 17 people including foreigners, the police is ...
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