Saturday, July 5, 2014

Ramadan Death Count Round Up (July 05, 2014)

(Gaza) The Israel Air Force attacked a terrorist who was preparing to fire rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip. A direct hit was registered.

(Iraq) An Iranian pilot has been killed while fighting in Iraq, state media reported Saturday, in what is thought to be Tehran's first military casualty during battles against Islamic State jihadists.

Iran's official IRNA news agency [...] said Colonel Shoja'at Alamdari Mourjani was killed while "defending" Shiite Muslim holy sites in the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.

(Somalia) Four people were killed when a car laden with explosives blew up near the parliamentary building in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a police official said Saturday.

The Somali terror group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the bombing. Capt. Mohammed Hussein said the car exploded at a checkpoint where it had been stopped by Somali troops. The dead were soldiers and refugees from an internal refugee camp near the check point, Hussien said.

(Egypt) Four people were killed after a bomb went off on a poultry farm in Egypt's Fayoum governorate. On checking the authorities found the farm which is owned by Ahmed Arafa, a regional Muslim Brotherhood leader in Fayoum, and was being used as a bomb-making factory. Bomb squad experts are now working on defusing another 40 bombs at the site of the explosion.

(Nigeria) Over 200 Boko Haram terrorists attacked the town of Damboa in Borno state, killing twelve soldiers, four policemen and four civilians, but ended up losing 50 members in the attack when the soldiers fought back.

A suicide bomber targeting worshipers in a mosque in a remote village in northeast Nigeria killed five people and wounded dozens.

(Libya) A car bomb killed a Libyan commando and injured his two-year-old son in the country's second city Saturday.

(Syria) 15 Kurdish fighters were killed in clashes with ISIS terrorists in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, announced the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

(Afghanistan) 11 Taliban terrorists were killed following counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours in the Afghan provinces of Nangarhar, Kunduz and Kandahar.

(Yemen) Bitter fighting between terrorists and security forces saw 28 people killed on Friday and Saturday. There were also airstrikes by the Yemeni air-force on Shia holdouts, killing a large number of people, however, as of yet figures haven't been given.

Ramadan death toll is now at 1,454.