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By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a public rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday evening, police and local media reported. The explosion occurred at around 5 pm The convention had been organized by the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), a coalition partner in […]

10th Mar 2023

Bangladesh: 22 people died, 100 injured from blast at commercial building in Dhaka

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh(AA): The death from Tuesday’s powerful blast at a commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has risen to 22. Detectives today arrested three people, including the two owners of the building in Dhaka’s Gulistan Siddik bazar area. The police officials said they were arrested as the building was built without following […]

26th Feb 2023

Pakistan: 4 killed, 20 injured in Balochistan explosion

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least four people were killed and over 20 injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The explosion occurred in a busy Rakhni market in the remote Barkhan district of southwestern Balochistan province. Police confirmed that at least four dead people and […]

6th Dec 2022

Afghanistan: 7 killed in explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (AA): At least seven people were killed and six others wounded in an explosion in Mazar-i Sharif city in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday. According to local officials, the roadside explosion took place near the Seyed Abad intersection in the third district of Mazar-i-Sharif and targeted a bus carrying oil […]

14th Nov 2022

Turkey: 6 people killed, 81 injured in deadly explosion in Istanbul

By Muhammed Gencebay Gur ISTANBUL (AA): Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue was reopened to pedestrian traffic after Sunday’s deadly explosion that killed six people and injured 81 others. Benches were removed on the street which is now being patrolled by police. The suspect who left the bomb on the crowded street frequented by shoppers and tourists […]

22nd Sep 2022

Afghanistan: 3 killed, 13 injured in blast in Kabul

By Islamuddin Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least three people were killed and 13 others were injured in a blast near a hotel in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Wednesday. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran confirmed the incident, stating that the explosion took place near a hotel in Dahmaznik area , the third precinct of […]

28th Jun 2021

Bangladesh: 8 dead, 50 injured in blast in Dhaka

By Md. Kamruzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The death toll from an explosion in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka rose to eight late on Sunday as a victim succumbed to injuries while under treatment, according to hospital sources. “We found two people dead after they tried to reach us having been injured (in the blast) and another, […]

31st Dec 2020

Yemen: Death toll from Aden airport blasts rises to 22

By Halime Afra Aksoy, Laith Al-jnaidi, Safiye Karabacak and Zehra Nur Duz ADEN, Yemen/ISTANBUL/ANKARA (AA): At least 22 people were killed in three explosions that rocked the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Wednesday soon after the newly formed government members arrived in the temporary capital. At least 50 others were […]

5th Aug 2020

Lebanon: 100 killed, 4,000 injured in the Beirut explosions

By Ria Shartouni BEIRUT (AA) – The secretary-general of the Lebanese Red Cross on Wednesday said victims of Tuesday’s explosion at the Port of Beirut have risen to 100 and more than 4,000 were injured. In a televised statement aired by Lebanese broadcaster LBC, George Kettaneh said Beirut hospitals no longer have the capacity […]

4th Aug 2020

Lebanon: Massive explosions in Beirut kills dozens, injures hundreds

Beirut, Lebanon (The Muslim News): According to local media,dozens of people have reportedly been killed, hundreds injured, due to massive explosions in Beirut, Tuesday afternoon. The cause of the blasts is unknown. Lebanese LBC television channel quoted Public Health Minister, Hamad Hasan, that very high number of people have been injured in the […]

15th Sep 2017

UK: IED explosion in London underground train injured 18 people

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal & Ahmed J Versi LONDON (AA & The Muslim News): Detonation of an improvised Explosive Devise on a London Underground train on Friday morning is being treated as a terrorist incident, British police said. 18 people were injured, not seriously as the IED only partly blew up. A timing devise […]

31st May 2017

Afghanistan: Dozens dead, over 300 injured in Kabul explosion

By Islamuddin Sajid KABUL (AA): A heavy explosion rocked a diplomatic area of Afghanistan’s Kabul city at early Wednesday morning, leaving at least 20 people dead, said a health ministry official. Local media claim between 20 to 100 people have been killed. Baz Mohammad, the ministry official, confirmed over 300 others were injured. The […]

13th Nov 2016

Indonesia: Blast outside church injures 4

By Ainur Rohmah TUBAN, (AA): Indonesian police have arrested a suspect following an explosion outside a church in East Kalimantan province that left four children injured. The police chief of provincial capital Samarinda told Anadolu Agency that they are questioning a 32-year-old man — identified by his initial J — on suspicion that he […]

22nd Apr 2016

Mexico: 24 dead in blast at petrochemical plant

By Nancy Caouette MEXICO CITY (AA): At least 24 victims were killed and 136 injured, 13 seriously, 18 unaccounted for, after an explosion ripped through a petrochemical plant, authorities said Thursday. “We went through the affected area. Unfortunately, so far, there are 24 people dead,” said Luis Felipe Puente, coordinator of Mexico’s civil protection. […]

18th Feb 2016

Sweden: Powerful blast hits Turkish culture association in Stockholm

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AA): An explosion rocked a Turkish cultural association building in a suburb south of Stockholm, Sweden, on Wednesday, local media reported. Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet said all the facility’s windows were blown out. Police was called to the scene at 9:35 p.m. local time and several ambulances and fire trucks have been dispatched […]

3rd Feb 2016

Philippines: Bomb blast injures 3 in S Philippines

By Hader Glang ZAMBOANGA CITY, (AA): At least three people – one of them a minor – were injured when an explosion rocked a southern Philippine city visited by a vice presidential candidate Tuesday. Supt. Ranie Hachuela, chief of Tacurong City police, was quoted by local media as saying that an improvised explosive device […]

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