A 12-year-old boy was among 17 people killed as gunmen fired into a bar in Ecuador, the latest mass shooting in a country ravaged by drug violence. Ecuador’s attorney general’s office said 14 others were injured in the attack on Sunday night at La Clínica bar in El Empalme. Police Major Oscar Valencia said the … Read more
The South American nation has reeled under a substantial increase in violent crime over the last several years. Gunmen in Ecuador have killed at least 17 people, including a child, in an attack on a bar, the latest incident to underscore the South American nation’s challenges with rising violent crime. The country’s attorney general said … Read more
A mother and child are among those killed by gunmen who threw a hand grenade into the building in Zahedan. An attack on a courthouse in southeastern Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province has killed at least five civilians and injured 13, Iranian media report. A mother and child were among those killed on Saturday by gunmen who … Read more
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh calls for probe into deadly road accident a week after dozens killed in Ha Long Bay boat disaster. Ten passengers have been killed, including two children, after a tour bus crashed in central Vietnam, authorities said, in the latest mass casualty accident after dozens were killed last weekend when … Read more
Dhiya’ Zawba Muslih al-Hardani and two of his sons affiliated to the group were killed in a raid, the US military says United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces have killed a senior ISIL (ISIS) leader and his two sons affiliated to the group in Syria’s Aleppo region, the US military has said. A post on … Read more
Facebook Tweet Email Link Almost 50 people including children are feared dead after a Soviet-era passenger plane crashed in Russia’s far-eastern Amur region, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials. The plane, an Antonov An-24, was flying on a regional route from Khabarovsk to Blagoveshchensk and Tynda when it disappeared from the radar, the … Read more
At least 10 forestry and rescue workers have been killed while battling wildfires in Turkey’s central Eskisehir province. Some 24 forest workers and volunteer rescue personnel were left “trapped inside the fire” following a change in the direction of the wind, Turkey’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said in a post on X. Five … Read more
Twenty people trying to get food have been killed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge” at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says. Nineteen were trampled to death and one was stabbed in the “tragic incident” at the GHF’s site in the Khan Younis area, a … Read more
CNN — Ukraine’s Security Service said Sunday they had killed Russian special service agents suspected of gunning down a fellow officer in Kyiv earlier this week, saying it believed Russia’s Federal Security Service was responsible. SBU officer Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent … Read more
Rescuers were searching for trapped survivors after the incident in the impoverished Lyari neighbourhood of Karachi. A five-storey building has collapsed in Pakistan, killing at least eight people and injuring nine others, officials said, with rescuers searching through the rubble for more trapped victims. The incident occurred on Friday, shortly after 10am (05:00 GMT) in … Read more