Baghdad, May 18 (IANS) As many as 43 people were killed and 70 injured in bomb blasts that occurred in different parts of Iraq Friday. At least eight people were killed and 25 wounded in a roadside bomb blast which took place during a funeral in Madain town, some 30 km from capital city of Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a interior ministry source
Kabul, May 18 (IANS) At least nine people were killed and over 55 injured Friday evening when two blasts rocked Afghanistan's Kandahar city, a government official said. "The initial reports said three police officers and six civilians died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening," reported Xinhua citing a provincial spokesperson. The blasts occurred as explosives were placed in two cars parked to target a police convoy passing by the area, the official added.
Islamabad, May 18 (IANS) At least 15 people were killed and 25 injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ahead of the Friday prayers, Geo News reported. The blasts occurred in Malakand district of the province from where the bodies and injured were shifted to a hospital
Kaduna (Nigeria), May 17 (IANS) Dozens of people have been killed in a military strike launched by Nigerian army since Thursday night in the northern part of the West African country, reported Xinhua citing security sources. The casualties include three soldiers involved in the army's unprecedented action against insurgents of the Boko Haram sect, which suffered the heaviest losses since emerging in 2009, the sources disclosed Friday
Islamabad, May 17 (IANS) At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured when twin blasts hit two mosques in Malakand town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Friday afternoon, reported Xinhua citing local media. Both blasts took place almost simultaneously at about 2 p.m.
Baghdad, May 17 (IANS) At least 35 people were killed and 45 others injured in two blasts, which hit almost simultaneously on Friday in Baquba, capital of eastern Iraq's Diyala province, after the Friday prayer, an official said. The two roadside bombs exploded near the Saroya mosque in Baquba, 65 km northeast of Iraq's capital of Baghdad, and hit the Sunni worshipers as they were leaving the mosque after prayer, the city's mayor Abdullah Hayali told Xinhua. A day ago, at least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured as a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq's Kirkuk.
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) A Delhi court Friday granted bail to suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital. Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Judge I.S. Mehta granted bail to Shah on a personal bond of Rs.20,000 with a surety of the like amount
Washington, May 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a message on the wall of the boat in which he was captured, claiming responsibility for the April 15 bomb attack, CBS News reported. CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant FBI director, cited sources as saying that the 19-year-old Tsarnaev had written the message with a pen on the inside wall of the boat cabin as he hid from police, bleeding from gunshot wounds sustained in a shootout with police that killed his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan. The text says the bombings were "in retribution for the US crimes against Muslims in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, that the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage, the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in US wars around the world, summing up that when you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims", Miller said.
Baghdad, May 17 (IANS) At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque in northern Iraq, police said. The suicide bomber entered the Al Zahraa mosque in Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, and then blew himself up, police told Xinhua. The explosion also caused damage to the mosque
Guwahati, May 16 (IANS) A woman Maoist cadre was arrested here and a man detained for alleged links with the rebels, police said Thursday. Kabita Rabha was arrested Wednesday night from a rented house from Odalbakra area. She was running a printing press in the locality, he said.
