Posted by warvictims on February 8, 2010
By BBC World News
February 6, 2010
Afghan police have shot dead seven villagers near the Pakistani border after mistaking them for insurgents, police officials said.
The seven young men were collecting firewood after dark in the southern town of Spin Boldak, a common transit route for Taliban militants. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on February 8, 2010
By Mareeg Online
February 7, 2010
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=15122&tirsan=3
MOGADISHU (Mareeg)—At least two civilians have been killed and ten others have been injured in heavy shelling that hit in northern Mogadishu on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on February 8, 2010
The Associated Press
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/06/8-killed-in-fighting-in-somalias-capital/
At least eight civilians, including a woman and 4-year-old child, were killed when insurgents and government soldiers pounded each other’s positions with mortars in the Somali capital overnight, a witness said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on February 5, 2010
By Nasrat Shoib (AFP)
February 5, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A bomb planted on a motorcycle ripped through a crowd gathered to watch a dog fight in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing three people and wounding more than 30, officials said.
Eighteen children were among those injured after the attack in Lashkar Gar, capital of southern province Helmand, a headquarters for the Taliban insurgency sweeping Afghanistan eight years after the 2001 US-led invasion. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on February 5, 2010
By Hasan Mansoor
February 5, 2010
KARACHI (AFP) – Suicide bombers rammed into a bus in Karachi on Friday then hit a hospital where casualties were rushed for treatment, killing 25 people in the second assault on Shiites in the Pakistani city in weeks.
The attacks in a city largely isolated from Islamist violence highlighted the instability in Pakistan, which is on the frontline of the US war on Al-Qaeda and where militants have killed more than 3,000 people since 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Pakistan, South Asia, Suicide Bomb | Tagged: Civilian Casualties, civilian injuries, Pakistan, sectarian violence, suicide bombers | Leave a Comment »
