Thursday, August 1, 2013

Ramadan Death Toll: Thursday 01/08/13

(Kashmir) 5 Pakistani terrorists were killed by the Indian army as they tried to infiltrate into India, making 11 the number of Pakistani terrorists shot dead during the past 72 hours caught trying to sneak into India.

(Philippines) Philippine troops killed eight Muslim rebels who attacked an oil tanker truck and placed bombs along a highway, forcing its closure for several hours as sporadic clashes raged Tuesday in a restive southern province. Army troops closed the highway for several hours as they defused two bombs and clashed with the insurgents, killing eight, in running gun battles that spilled into nearby towns.

(Pakistan) Two tortured dead bodies were found from Clifton and Mewa Shah Graveyard areas of Karachi on Thursday. Two policemen including a were killed in Peshawar when unknown gunmen opened fire on a police mobile on late Thursday night.

(Iraq) 8 members of the Iraqi security forces were murdered on Thursday, 4 suicide bombers were shot dead as they tried to infiltrate federal police headquarters in Mosul and 2 civilians were killed and five wounded in a bombing near Baquba. A body of a policeman who was kidnapped two days ago was found in southern Mosul with bullet holes in his head and chest. Near Baghdad, a civilian was killed and six wounded when a roadside bomb ripped through Baghdad's southeastern suburb of Nahrawan, In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a government employee was killed and five of his family members, including three children, were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at his house in the city of Maqdadiyah, and a government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group member was killed and another wounded when gunmen attacked their checkpoint at a village near Baquba

(Libya) A Libyan army officer was shot dead in the eastern town of Derna, while another was seriously wounded in a second attack in Benghazi. In Misrata, also in the east, unknown attackers shot and killed a soldier.

(Nigeria) Islamic extremists killed eight people in an attack targeting teachers and Muslim clerics in northeast Nigeria, witnesses and the military said Thursday.


Ramadan death toll is now at 4,184.