Tag: suicide bombing

Suspected grenade attack on US embassy compound in Montenegro: govt

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AFP) — An unknown person blew themself up after throwing a suspected grenade into the US embassy compound in Podgorica, the Montenegrin government said Thursday. “In front of the @USEmbassyMNE building in #Podgorica, #Montenegro an unknown person committed suicide with an explosive device. Immediately before, that person threw an explosive device,” the official government account tweeted, adding that the device was “most probably” a hand grenade. An AFP correspondent could not see any […]

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Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 12 in Kabul Shiite mosque attack

by Mushtaq Mojaddidi Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan  – A suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shiite mosque in Kabul killed 12 people and wounded scores more Friday, officials said, the latest assault to highlight deteriorating security in Afghanistan. Gunshots and explosions could be heard during the attack that lasted around four hours and witnesses reported seeing worshippers smash windows to escape. The mosque, in a residential area in the north of […]

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Eight killed in Nigeria suicide bombing: authorities

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AFP) – Eight people were killed on Monday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attack in the restive region. The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said the blast happened at about 5:30 am (0430 GMT) in the London Ciki area of Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram violence since 2009. “She killed eight […]

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Baghdad blasts kill 27 as Iraq forces battle IS in Mosul

by Salam Faraj and W.G. Dunlop with Simon Valmary in Mosul Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 27 people in Baghdad, officials said on Tuesday, as Iraqi forces fight to retake the last jihadist-held areas in Mosul. In the deadlier of the two attacks, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a popular ice cream shop around midnight (2100 GMT Monday), killing […]

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ISIS inako ang Manchester attack

(Eagle News) – Inako ng terrorist group na Islamic State in Iraq and Syria o ISIS ang naganap na pagsabog sa Manchester Arena kung saan nagsasagawa ng concert ang United States singer na si Ariana Grande. Ginawa ito ng ISIS sa pamamagitan ng IS channels sa messaging app na Telegram. Magugunitang aabot sa 22 katao ang namatay habang mayroong 59 sugatan sa naganap na suicide bombing na isinagawa matapos ang concert. Kinondena naman ng iba’t ibang world leaders ang […]

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AFP ease paranoia of bombings in Metro Manila malls

(Eagle News)– The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Wednesday nullifies the rumors of suicide bombing in Metro Manila malls due to circulating text message that such a deed would be carried out.   “In so far as the Armed Forces of the Philippines is concerned, we have not received any such kind of threat,” AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo assuredly said. According to the text message, it was supposedly confirmed […]

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UN’s Ban condemns Turkey wedding bombing

UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon decried Sunday the suicide bombing that killed 51 people at a wedding in southeastern Turkey, and called for swift punishment for the perpetrators. “The secretary-general condemns yesterday’s terrorist attack on a wedding party in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey,” Ban’s office said in a statement. “This act, reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber, killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens of others,” […]

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Yemen bombings kill at least 41: new toll

UPDATES TOLL ADEN, Yemen (AFP) — Twin bombings targeting the Yemeni army in second city Aden on Monday killed at least 41 people, most of them would-be recruits, a military official said. A suicide bomber killed 34 people queueing up to enlist at a recruitment centre near the Badr base in the Khormaksar district, said Brigadier General Nasser al-Sarei, commander of special security forces. A second explosion went off inside the base afterwards, killing seven soldiers, […]

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Suicide bombing shakes southern Russia, but nobody hurt

NOVOSELITSKOYE,STAVROPOL REGION, Russia (Reuters) – Three men attacked a rural police station in southern Russia on Monday (April 11) including at least one suicide bomber, the country’s Interior Ministry said, saying police in the affected area had been put on a high state of alert. The attack took place in the village of Novoselitskoye in Russia’s Stavropol region, close to the volatile majority-Muslim North Caucasus area, where Islamist extremists intent upon carving out a breakaway […]

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Two suicide bombers kill 15 at Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) — Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad on Thursday (February 25), killing at least 15 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. Fifty other people were wounded in the blast in the predominantly Shi’ite Shuala neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources said. The first bomber detonated his vest inside the mosque and the second blew himself up when security forces gathered […]

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Female suicide bombers kill over 60 people in northeast Nigeria -officials

DIKWA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Two female suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a camp for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group in the northeast Nigerian town of Dikwa, military and emergency officials said on Wednesday (February 10). The attack occurred 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday (February 9), but a breakdown in […]

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Suicide bomber kills at least ten in northwest Pakistan

A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday (January 19), killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 20, officials said. The bomber rammed his motorcycle into the roadside checkpoint local government officials said. “During duty hours, a man arrived here either on a motorcycle or bicycle, he stopped the vehicle and blew himself up,” an unidentified policeman told Reuters Television. Among the dead were at […]

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