Tag: bombing

PNP, aminadong nagkulang sa pagbabantay sa Quiapo twin blast 

(Eagle News) — Aminado ang pamunuan ng pambansang pulisya na nagkulang sila sa pagbabantay o pagbibigay seguridad kaya’t may mga nangyaring pagsabog sa Quiapo, Manila. Ayon kay Philippine National Police Chief PDGen. Ronald Dela Rosa, ang nangyaring pagsabog ay patunay na malaki ang kanilang pagkukulang. Gayunpaman sinabi ni PNP Chief na hindi saklaw ng pagbabantay ng kanilang mga intelligence operatives ang mga personal na away ang siyang nakikitang anggulo ng PNP sa mga nangyaring pagsabog. […]

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Russia detains 8 over Saint Petersburg metro bombing

by Marina Koreneva SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Russian investigators on Thursday detained eight people suspected of involvement in the Saint Petersburg metro bombing, as the country held commemorative rallies to honour the 13 victims. “Six people were detained in Saint Petersburg and two in Moscow who are involved in the act of terror” following an investigation and search operation conducted with the FSB security service and interior ministry, Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee said in […]

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Five killed in suspected bomb blast in Pakistan: officials

LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — At least five people have been killed and 10 wounded in a blast which appeared to have been a Taliban attack targeting a census team in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, officials and the militants said. Security forces cordoned off the area on Bedian Road in the bustling capital of Punjab province after the blast, which rescuers said occurred just before 8:00 am local time. A forensics team could also […]

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Death toll rises to 14 in St Petersburg metro blast: health minister

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen people have died as a result of a blast that ripped through a train carriage on the Saint Petersburg metro, Russia’s health minister said Tuesday. “We can state today that 14 people have died,”  Veronika Skvortsova told journalists, adding that 49 people are still hospitalised after the explosion on Monday afternoon. Anti-terror authorities had earlier reported a death toll of 11. © Agence France-Presse

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World leaders ‘stand’ with Britain after London attack

  PARIS, France (AFP) — World leaders unanimously condemned the attack in the heart of London by a man who was shot dead by armed police, with many saying they stand with Britain. At least four people were killed and more than 40 injured in the attack outside parliament Wednesday when a man mowed down pedestrians with a car then leapt out and stabbed a police officer. In an address outside her Downing Street office, […]

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Basilan binulabog ng IED na pinasabog sa poste ng kuryente

LAMITAN, Basilan (Eagle News) – Muling binulabog ng isa na namang pagsabog ang mga residente ng Lamitan, Basilan noong Miyerkules ng gabi, Marso 8 bandang 12:00 ng hating gabi. Hinihinalang isang improvised explosive eevice (IED) ang itinanim at pinasabog sa isang poste ng kuryente sa kanto ng J. Pamaran at Aguinaldo St., Brgy. Matatag, Lamitan, Basilan. Wala namang nasugatan o namatay sa nasabing insidente. Sa kasalukuyan ay hindi pa matiyak kung anong grupo ang nasalikod ng […]

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Islamic State-claimed bomb kills 70 at Pakistan shrine

SEHWAN, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 70 people were killed and hundreds wounded Thursday when a bomb ripped through a revered Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan, officials said, after a series of attacks which have shaken optimism over recent improvements in security. The Islamic State group (IS) claimed the attack, the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far in 2017, in the town of Sehwan in Sindh province, some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of the […]

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Blasts in three Afghan cities kill around 50, wound 100

by Usman SHARIFI Agence France Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Bombings across three Afghan cities including Kabul killed around 50 people and wounded 100 others Tuesday, in a day of carnage as Taliban insurgents escalate a deadly winter campaign of violence. At least 11 people died when explosives hidden in a sofa detonated inside the governor’s compound in southern Kandahar during a visit by the UAE ambassador to Afghanistan, who escaped the attack with injuries. […]

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IS claims deadly Cairo church bombing

by Maram MAZEN CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people, the first claim for one of the worst attacks on the Coptic Christian community in recent memory. IS identified the suicide bomber who carried out Sunday’s attack by the pseudonym Abu Abdallah al-Masri in a statement circulated on social media on Tuesday. The bomber “got in between the […]

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Apat sugatan sa nangyaring pagsabog sa Freedom Park sa Iligan City

ILIGAN CITY (Eagle News) – Sugatan ang apat katao sa nangyaring pagsabog ng bomba sa harap ng Western Union at gilid ng Freedom Park noong Miyerkules, December 7, bandang 7:00 ng gabi. Ang pinangyarihan ay malapit lamang sa Police Station ng Barangay Poblacion, Iligan City. Ang mga biktima ay agad na isinugod sa Dr. Uy Hospital, Poblacion, Iligan City na nakilalang sina: Laureto Carabantes, Jr. – 26 taong gulang, empleyado sa Art Destura Printing, taga-Purok 5, […]

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IS truck bomb in Iraq sows carnage among Shiite pilgrims

by Abbas al-Ani with Max Delany in Mosul HILLA, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 70 people, mainly Shiite pilgrims, south of Baghdad Thursday, as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul from the jihadists. The huge truck bomb blast ripped through a petrol station where buses packed with faithful returning from the Arbaeen commemoration in Karbala were parked, officials said. Most of the victims were Iranians, […]

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Suicide bomber attacks vehicle in Kabul, killing four

  KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed at least four people and wounded several in an attack on a vehicle carrying national security officials in Kabul on Wednesday (November 16), a security official at the scene in the Afghan capital told Reuters. An interior ministry official confirmed the attack but could not say immediately how many people had been killed or wounded. Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, […]

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