Bomb Blast

Indonesian police Saturday were studying DNA evidence from the remains of two suicide bombers who carried out twin attacks on luxury Jakarta hotels, as security was tightened across the country. Suspected Islamist suicide bombers detonated powerful devices at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in an upmarket business district Friday, leaving nine dead and...
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At least 28 people were killed, including women and schoolgirls, and dozens wounded in a triple bombing in a Baghdad market on Monday, the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital in months, security officials said. The attackers detonated a car bomb in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, then minutes later a suicide bomber...
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ZAGREB (AFP) — Croatia’s top security body was to meet on Friday after a senior journalist was murdered in a car bomb attack as Prime Minister Ivo Sanader vowed he would not allow the country to turn into “another Beirut”. Ivo Pukanic, founder and owner of the Nacional independent weekly, was killed outside his...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A car bomb exploded Friday in an outdoor market in southern Baghdad, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 22, an Interior Ministry official said. Women and children were among the casualties from the explosion in the Shiite enclave in the Dora neighborhood, the official said. In a separate incident...
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A suicide blast at an anti-Taliban tribal meeting in a restive Pakistani region bordering Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens, security officials said. The explosion happened a day after a force of pro-government tribesmen destroyed two militant hideouts in the Orakzai district, one of Pakistan’s...
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Eleven people have been killed during a American raid in the Iraqi city of Mosul in which a suicide bomber blew himself up, the US military says. Three women and three children were among the dead at the private home, the US military said, adding that five “terrorists” had also died. However, an official...
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TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A car exploded Friday, killing seven soldiers outside Russia’s military headquarters in South Ossetia, and Russian authorities charged it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended their war with Georgia. Georgia’s Interior Ministry blamed Russia, accusing it of arranging the blast to provide a pretext...
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BAGHDAD – Suicide bombers struck two Shiite mosques in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens during celebrations marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. To the north, suspected Shiite militiamen gunned down six members of a Sunni family, including women and children, police reported. Those attacks...
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COLOMBO (AFP) – One civilian was injured in an explosion in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on Monday, police said. Police said one woman had minor injuries, while six vehicles were badly damaged in the explosion that took place in Colombo’s commercial Fort area. The cause of the blast was not immediately...
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ALGIERS (AFP) – Three people were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack near the Algerian capital, APS news agency quoted security officials as saying on Monday. The bomber blew up his car packed with explosives near the town of Dellys, about 40 kilometres (20 miles) east of Algiers, late Sunday...
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