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  • Atiku hammers FG over suicide bombing in Borno

    Atiku hammers FG over suicide bombing in Borno

    Ex-Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the federal government to be aware of its responsibilities and ensure no region in the country is overrun by acts of terrorism and insecurity.

    Atiku called on the federal government led by President Bola Tinubu to wake up from its slumber and protect the citizens of the country from all acts of insecurity and terrorism.

    The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), made the call in a statement on Sunday in which he reacted to the suicide bombing which occurred at a wedding in Borno State on Saturday and resulted in the death of several guests.

    The Borno State Police Command has confirmed that no fewer than six people were killed, with 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Gwoza, Borno State.

    Many people lost their lives in Gwoza, a town in Borno State, after a female suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) at a wedding venue, killing several wedding guests and injuring many others.

    According to sources, the bomber was carrying a baby on her back when she stormed the venue and detonated the IED at the wedding held on Saturday, in Tashan Mararaba near the Fire Service in Gwoza town.

    Reacting to the unfortunate incident, Atiku commiserated with those affected by the bombing and called out the government for allowing much of the pushback that has been achieved against Boko Haram to be re-surfacing due to a lacklustre posture on security issues.

    He urged action to be taken to ensure the Northeast region does not slide back into terrorism and extreme violence.

    “It is a sad development that the ugly incidents of terrorism are resurfacing and, indeed, metastasising in the North-East.

    “The reported attack by suicide bombers at a wedding reception, funeral procession, and a hospital on Saturday stands condemned.

    “It is unfortunate that much of the pushback that had been achieved against the Boko Haram terror sect are being cancelled, owing mainly to the government’s lacklustre posture to hold firmly on the frontline.

    “It is thus important to call on the federal authorities to wake up to their responsibility and to make sure that the North-East does not slide back into a theatre of terrorism and extreme violence.

    “My condolences go to the families of victims of these attacks, and it is my prayer that God grants a peaceful repose to the souls of the departed,” Atiku posted on X.

  • BREAKING: Controversial cleric killed in suicide bombing

    BREAKING: Controversial cleric killed in suicide bombing

    A controversial cleric has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, officials said on Friday.

    In a statement, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that Mawlana Mujib-ul-Rahman Ansari had been killed during Friday prayers at the biggest mosque in the city.

    Mujahid vowed that Taliban forces would punish the perpetrators behind the attack.

    Provincial police spokesperson Mahmoud Shah Rasooli said the incident took place when the cleric was entering the mosque while coming from his house.

    “One of the suicide bombers blew himself up and the cleric while kissing his hands,” the police spokesman said.

    Rasooli said a number of people had been killed in the attack, but did not give a precise number.

    The famous cleric was a major supporter of the Taliban government.

    Since the Taliban’s return to power, attacks on places of worship had increased in the country.

    The Islamic State terrorist group had claimed responsibility for a number of these attacks against religious minorities, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Friday bombing.

  • 1 police officer died in suicide bombing near U.S. embassy

    1 police officer died in suicide bombing near U.S. embassy

    A police officer was killed on Friday, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, the Interior Ministry said.

    According to the ministry the two men targeted a security post across the street from the embassy. However, four other policemen and one civilian were injured in the explosion.

    Judiciary spokesperson Sufian al-Sulaiti, said the four injured security personnel were in a stable condition.
    Al-Sulaiti added that a woman who was driving her car in the area was also slightly injured.

    “The two terrorists used a large quantity of explosives and the motorcycle they were riding was also booby-trapped.

    “The police are still trying to identify the attackers,”al-Sulaiti said.

    However, shortly after witnesses reported the incidence, the U.S. embassy said that emergency personnel were responding to the explosion and urged the people to avoid the area.

    The U.S. embassy building is in the Tunisian capital’s Berges du Lac neighbourhood, where several embassies and businesses are located.

    According to witnesses, security vehicles and personnel have surrounded the embassy area.

    No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

    In recent time, Tunisia has witnessed a string of militant attacks, most of them claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.

    In June, two back-to-back suicide attacks killed one police officer and injured eight people in the centre of Tunis.

    In March 2015, 21 tourists and a police officer were killed when gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum in Tunis.

    Three months later, 38 tourists, mostly Britons, were killed in an attack at a hotel in the coastal city of Sousse.

    In October, Tunisia elected Former law prof. Kais Saied, as its second democratically elected President since the Tunisian Revolution kicked off the Arab Spring revolts of 2010-2011.

    In the past nine years, social unrest, militant attacks and an economic slowdown have afflicted the country on its fledgling democratic path.

  • Suicide bomber hit market, kills at least 25

    Suicide bomber hit market, kills at least 25

    A suicide bomb attack on a crowded festival and market in northwest Pakistan’s northwest killed at least 25 people on Friday and wounded 20, a government official said.

    The blast occurred at around the same time that three attackers tried to storm the Chinese consulate in the southern city of Karachi.

    Two policemen and the three attackers were killed.

    Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Karachi South Region, Javed Alam, confirmed that two policemen and three other unknown persons were killed when a group of terrorists opened fire at them in the diplomatic zone where several foreign missions are located in Clifton area of Karachi.

    Around three to four terrorists riding on a vehicle reached the area and started firing and hurled a couple of hand grenades at the police personnel deployed for security of the area.

    Director of the Jinnah Hospital Karachi, Seemi Jamali, said that overall five bodies and one injured have been shifted to the hospital.

    Two of the deceased are recognised as the police personnel, but others are not recognised yet, said the hospital director.

    The Karachi attack was claimed by a separatist insurgent group called the Balochistan Liberation Army, and did not appear to be connected to the attack on the market in the northwestern region of Orakzai.

    In Orakzai, a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle into a crowd attending a festival and market that attracts people from different religious communities, before detonating his explosives.

    No group claimed responsibility.

    “It was a suicide blast at the festival that takes place every Friday,” said Abbas Khan, the Assistant Commissioner of the District, said.

    Khan said that among the 25 dead were three members of the minority Sikh community and two security officials.

    The Geo television channel showed footage of military officials cordoning off the bomb site.

    Orakzai was formerly a semi-autonomous part of Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun tribal area along the Afghan border.

    The region was for decades a refuge for Islamist militants fighting in Afghanistan, and more recently against the Pakistani state.

    The Pakistani military stepped up operations along the border in 2009 and has managed to clear some areas of militants.

    The tribal areas were incorporated into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in May.

    Following the explosion, rescue teams along with security forces have rushed to the blast site and the injured people have been shifted to the nearest hospital.

    Several among the injured people were in critical condition, said the hospital sources.

    Security personnel cordoned off the area after the blast and launched a search operation.

    The nature of the blast is not known yet, and police have launched an investigation into the incident.

    NAN

  • Eight policemen, one other wounded as woman blows herself up

    Authorities said nine people, including eight policemen, were wounded when a woman blew herself up in central Tunis on Monday.
    Spokesman for the Tunisian Interior Ministry described the incident as a “terrorist explosion.”
    A witness reported an explosion on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where Police were cordoning off the area near the capital’s landmark Municipal Theatre.
    Ambulances could be heard rushing to the scene.
    “I was in front of the theater and heard a huge explosion and saw people fleeing,” witness Mohamed Rajib told Reuters.
    Reuters/NAN

  • Suicide bombings kill 38 in southern Syria

    Authorities said 38 people were killed and 37 others wounded in a series of bombings and attacks in the southern province of Sweida on Wednesday.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said suicide bombers from the Islamic State (IS) detonated bomb vests and explosive devices in Sweida city in tandem with an attack by this terror-designated group on towns in the eastern countryside of Sweida on Wednesday.

    Three suicide bombers set off their bomb vests near the grocery market and the roundabouts of Mashnaqa and Najmeh in Sweida city, the Observatory said, adding that explosive devices were detonated in the same areas.

    In the northeastern countryside of Sweida, where the Syrian warplanes are taking part in striking the IS fighters, the militants launched attacks on several towns amid confrontation between the Syrian army and the militants.

    Meanwhile, a medical source inside the city confirmed to Xinhua that over 30 people were killed in the attacks, adding that the wounded are being taken to the national hospital in the city.

    Syrian state news agency SANA said a suicide bomber detonated himself while the two others were killed before setting their explosives off in the city.

    It added that another explosion took place in the Maslakh area in the city.

    Xinhua/NAN

  • Attacks: NSCDC deploys 50 armed personnel to UNIMAID

    The Borno Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) has deployed 50 armed personnel to check incessant attacks at the University of Maiduguri.

    Its Commandant, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, told newsmen on Monday in Maiduguri that the measure was necessitated by the rising cases of suicide bombing and other attacks at the institution.

    He said that the personnel had been deployed to strategic locations like the business centres, motor parks, worship and social centres, among other areas.

    The official urged the students and members of the university community to be calm and report any suspicious movement around the vicinity to security agents.

    TheNewsGuru reports that the institution has recorded four incidents of attacks in the last few weeks.

  • Suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province injures 15

    Suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province injures 15

    At least 15 people have been injured in a suicide bombing in the capital of Helmand, a spokesperson for the Governor in the embattled Afghan province said on Saturday.

    “A suicide bomber using a car detonated explosives near a branch of Kabul bank in Lashkargah city,’’ Omar Zwak added.

    Emergency hospital director Dejan Panic said the hospital has so far received 12 patients, including a woman and a child, with two of them critically injured.

    Mohammad Karim Atal, the head of the Helmand provincial council, reported at least 23 casualties, including some people killed.

    No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.