By Ocean on Dec 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
The death toll from a car-bomb attack on a crowded market in northwest Pakistan has risen to 27.
Police found six more bodies among the wreckage on Saturday, a day after the blast which went off close to a market in Peshawar called Qissakahani bazaar.
About 100 people were wounded when the car bomb went off on [...]
By Ocean on Dec 2, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday it was not considering military action in response to terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 183 people.
“Nobody is talking of military action,” foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters when asked about options on what action could be taken.
Investigators have said the attacks were carried out [...]
By Ocean on Nov 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
MUMBAI: Security forces freed the landmark Taj hotel here after an intense night-long firing amid a series of explosions, with three terrorists gunned down by the commandos, authorities said this morning.
“Three terrorists have been killed but we are still continuing our operations,” Director General of NSG, J K Dutt, told reporters outside the hotel. [...]
By Ocean on Nov 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
At least three people have been killed by a bomb which ripped through a compound of government offices in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
The attack on Wednesday wounded more than 30 people and appeared to target the city’s intelligence agency and the provincial council offices.
A police officer at the scene said that it looked [...]
By Ocean on Nov 7, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
At least eight people have died in what Russian investigators say was a bomb attack that hit a minibus in Vladikavkaz, in the North Caucasus.
Investigators say the bomb was planted outside a busy market and went off as the minibus arrived at a bus stop.
Earlier, officials said 11 people were killed in the explosion.
Vladikavkaz is [...]
By Ocean on Oct 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Police say at least 18 bombs have exploded across the northeastern Indian state of Assam, killing 20 people and injuring scores more.
An official at the police control room in Guwahati, the state capital, told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that at least four of the explosions took place in the city itself.
An AP reporter [...]
By Ocean on Oct 25, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Police in Pakistan have arrested four men in connection with last month’s suicide bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in the capital Islamabad.
Fifty-five people died and around 160 were injured in the September 20 bombing after a lorry loaded with explosives blew up outside the hotel.
The men, arrested on suspicion of “indirect involvement” in the [...]
By Ocean on Oct 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
An explosion at a meeting of tribal elders in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 40 people and up to 200 others.
The suspected suicide bombing happened on Friday in the Orakzai district, one of Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous tribal regions, security officials said.
“We were busy in raising a lashkar [a tribal militia] to evict Taliban [...]
By Ocean on Oct 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
A large explosion has injured several people and badly damaged barracks at the police headquarters in the Pakistani capital.
The Islamabad attack came just hours before a roadside bombing in Pakistan’s volatile northwest killed 10 people and wounded another 10 on Thursday.
Police said that initial reports of fatalities in the Islamabad attack were incorrect, but that [...]
By Ocean on Oct 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
At least 27 people have been killed and about 80 wounded in a suspected suicide bomb attack in a north-central Sri Lankan town, police have said.
Janaka Perera, a former general who became an opposition leader, was among those killed in the explosion on Monday outside the newly opened offices of the United National Party in [...]