Monday, August 6, 2012

Ramadan death toll round-up, August 6, 2012

(Sudan) Four people were killed when gunmen looted a market and set fire to a police station during several days of violence in Sudan's Darfur region, international peacekeepers said on Monday.

(Russia) A blast ripped through the capital of Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Monday, killing at least four interior ministry soldiers and injuring three people, a local government source said.

(Iraq) Bombings and shootings killed seven people and wounded 17 others in Iraq on Monday, security and medical officials said.

So far this month, attacks have killed 62 people, 43 of them members of the security forces, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.

(Pakistan) Gunmen on Monday killed a truck driver in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt over suspicions that he was transporting supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said.

(Somalia) More than 50 terrorists and 4 civilians were killed in the city of Hudu, as African Union forces continued their advance south from Mogadishu. Meanwhile, in the capital itself, a road-side bomb took the lives of 2 people.

(Libya) Government forces killed 3 men they found in possession of explosives in a farm and whom they claim have been behind a string of bomb attacks in the country.

(Kashmir) Indian security forces killed 2 Islamic terrorists including the main suspect behind the 2011 Delhi high court blast which killed 10 people and injured around 70.

Ramadan death count moves up to 1,928.