Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Ramadan Death Toll: Wednesday 07/08/13

Well, it's the last day of Ramadan and it appears that, unable to withhold their blood lust any longer, Allah's favourite followers have gone that extra mile in which to ensure that this year's Ramadan goes out with a bang:

(Syria) Syrian government forces ambushed a group of rebels who were trying to sneak into a suburb of the capital Damascus, killing 70 of them, early this morning.

6 soldiers were killed and 10 others wounded when an explosion shook a suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus Wednesday as part of the endless circle of violence that has engulfed the country over the past two years, the Britain-Based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

(Pakistan) A bomb that some murderous idiot just happened to plant outside a shopping centre in Mastung district killed a woman and 2 children  and injured over 21 people.

(Bangladesh) A mob lynched three suspected robbers in a suburb of the Bangladesh capital amid a spurt in incidents of mugging, extortion and robbery.

(Iraq) 17 people were killed and 11 wounded in bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Iraqi security forces, in northern and central Iraq.

(Afghanistan) An attack on a vehicle convoy containing a female Afghan senator resulted in her 8-year-old daughter and a bodyguard getting killed and senator Rouh Gul Khirzad receiving serve injuries.

A Taliban shadow governor for Alingar district of Laghman province and five other insurgents were killed in an operation conducted by the Afghan National Security Forces.

3 civilians, including two children, were killed and nine others wounded Wednesday evening in two back-to-back explosions in eastern Afghan province of Wardak,

(Algeria) 3 policemen and 1 terrorist were killed overnight when a terrorist group opened fire on a police patrol about 100 miles east of the capital.

(Egypt) Egypt's armed forces said that 60 terrorists have been killed and 103 others arrested in Sinai in military operations these past 4 weeks. (I've checked to see if we have any duplicate killings here - we haven't.)

A clash between rival political groups in the city of Alexandria saw 1 man shot dead.

(Somalia) Gunmen shot dead the deputy chairman of Mogadishu's Warta Nabadd district at his home is the north of the capital. Shire Ahmed Taako was attacked as he left his home by a group of men armed with pistols, who also seriously wounded one of the government official's bodyguards.

(West Bank) Gunmen shot and killed a 60-year-old man in Hebron on Wednesday after robbing him. Jawad Omran al-Qawasmi, who owned a money exchange in Hebron, was shot dead in the Wadi Abu Kteileh area of the city on his way to work.

(Gaza) Four armed men attacked a factory Wednesday night in Deir al-Balah, wounding the owner and killing his son.

(Lebanon) 1 man was killed and eight people wounded during a clash Wednesday between members of two rival families in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Ramadan death toll is now at 5,044.