Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ramadan Death Count Round Up (July 24, 2014)

(Iraq) Gunmen attacked a prisoner convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday, setting off a battle with troops in which 52 prisoners and eight soldiers were killed, officials said.

Hours after Iraq gets new president, double car bombing in Baghdad kills 12.

(Afghanistan) Two Finnish women working for a Christian aid organisation in the western city of Herat were shot dead today. Also, 6 people were killed when they were caught in a terrorist bomb attack on a packed market in northern Takhar province.

(Pakistan) Fresh air strikes kill 20 terrorists in N. Pakistan.

2 soldiers were killed by an IED on the Afghan/Pak border thurs evening.

(Nigeria) Boko Haram terrorists descended on a town they attacked earlier this week and shot dead 5 people.

A bombing in northern Nigeria’s biggest city and an attack by suspected Islamist militants in northeastern Borno state left at least 12 people dead.

(Libya) Nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces trying to oust the militants from the eastern Libyan city.

(Oman) Two Indians have been found murdered.

(Syria) ISIS terrorists attacked a besieged army base in northern Syria on Thursday, resulting in the deaths of 35 of their own and (so far) 6 soldiers.

At least 11 people, including three children and a woman, were killed and eight others wounded when a mortar shell fell on a district of Aleppo city, north Syria, on Thursday.

Twenty-three soldiers who deserted the Syrian army were killed on Thursday by Shabiha – an armed militia group from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime - in Syria's Homs.

(Egypt) Two terrorists were killed in Arish after exchanging fire with the armed forces during a raid against terrorist havens in North Sinai.

Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported Thursday that Egyptian troops shot and killed a terrorist who was on his way to commit a massive suicide bombing at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel.

(Gaza)  Hamas executes nine more Palestinian 'collaborators.' Others shot in legs, placed under house arrest.

(Yemen) Al Qaida suspects on a motorbike shot dead an army officer on Thursday in Lahij province of southern Yemen.

Ramadan death toll is now at 6,976.