Posted in Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Iraq, Middle-East, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, Gunfire, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East on September 13, 2011|
AFP|September 13 2011
RAMADI, Iraq — Gunmen killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late Monday in a desert region of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP.
“Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria Monday around 9:30 pm (1830 GMT), they made the 22 passengers get off the bus and killed them with automatic weapons,” he said.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Middle-East, Uncategorized, tagged Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilians wounded, Gunfire, innocent civilians, innocent victims, Middle-East, Pakistan, Taliban on September 13, 2011|
AP|Riaz Kahn|September 13 2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Taliban gunmen attacked a school van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing four children and the driver in an assault they said was carried out to punish local tribesman for resisting the insurgent movement.
At least 14 other children and two female teachers were wounded in the attack in Matani on the outskirts of the main northwestern city of Peshawar, said police officer Ejaz Khan.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, Uncategorized, tagged civilian deaths, innocent victims, Iraq, Middle-East, Military, war victims on September 8, 2011|
The Telegraph|September 8 2011
Baha Mousa, an innocent civilian, welcomed the British forces who occupied his hometown of Basra in April 2003, because their arrival signalled the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
But less than half a year later the 26 year-old father-of-two had suffered a brutal, humiliating death at the hands of a small number of British soldiers he saw as liberators.
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Middle-East, tagged Bomb, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, civilian wounded, innocent victims, Middle-East, Pakistan, Taliban on September 7, 2011|
AP|Abdul Sattar|September 7, 2011
A pair of suicide bombers attacked a top army officer in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, missing him but killing his wife. At least 22 others died, including several guards, a senior officer and two children, officials said.
Police said they were investigating whether the strike was in revenge for the recent arrests in Quetta of three top al-Qaida suspects, an operation that was assisted by the CIA.
Posted in Africa, Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Health Care, Horn of Africa, NGOs, Shelling, Somalia, United Nations, tagged AU, Children casualties, Civilian Casualties, innocent victims, Somalia, UN, WHO on June 1, 2011|
NAIROBI, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) – Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
In a press statement issued on 31 May, WHO said recent data showed that the main causes of death among under-fives were burns, chest injuries and internal haemorrhaging caused by blast injuries, shrapnel and bullets.
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