Viet Nam News PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bombing at an election rally killed at least 13 people, including a politician, in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, amid concerns about security ahead of national polls later this month. The attack targeted a campaign event organised in the city of Peshawar by the Awami National Party, which has been targeted by Islamist militants in the past over its vocal opposition to extremist groups like the Taliban. The bombing came hours after the Pakistan military spokesman said there were security threats ahead of national elections scheduled for July 25. "The attack killed at least 13 people, including (Haroon) Bilour," Peshawar city police chief Qazi Jameel said. Officials said at least 54 people were wounded. Haroon Bilour was one of the ANP’s election candidates and belonged to an influential political family in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital. His father Bashir Bilour, one of … [Read more...] about Suicide bombing kills 13 at NW Pakistan election rally
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Indonesia: 10 passengers injured after false bomb claim on plane
Illustrative Image (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Indonesian police said on May 29 that 10 passengers on a flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, most of them with broken bones and head wounds, when they tried to jump to the ground after a man claimed there was a bomb on board. Passengers overheard the man, who was later defined as Frantinus Nirigi, 26, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air Boeing 737, which was to carry 189 passengers to Jakarta on May 28 night. An eventual inspection of the plane found no explosives. After Nirigi made the bomb claim, another passenger broke the emergency exits, enabling panicked passengers to flee the aircraft. Both of them were arrested later. Video posted online showed dozens of people standing on the plane's right wing. Some slid down the right engine and landed on the tarmac. The incident was the latest bomb hoax on flights in Indonesia. On May 26, Lion Air removed a 25-year-old … [Read more...] about Indonesia: 10 passengers injured after false bomb claim on plane
Militant family uses child in suicide bomb attack on Indonesian police
A family of Islamist militants in Indonesia carried an eight-year-old into a suicide bomb attack against police in Surabaya on Monday, a day after another militant family killed 13 people in suicide attacks on three churches in the same city. The suicide bombers rode two motorbikes up to a checkpoint outside a police station and blew themselves up, Tito Karnavian, the police chief in Indonesia's second-largest city, told a news conference. He said the child survived the explosion, and CCTV footage showed a child stumbling around in the aftermath. Four officers and six civilians were wounded in the attack, East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said. President Joko Widodo branded the attacks in Surabaya the "act of cowards", and pledged to push through a new anti-terrorism bill to combat Islamist militant networks. After some major successes tackling Islamist militancy since 2001, there has been a resurgence in recent years, including in January 2016 when four suicide bombers … [Read more...] about Militant family uses child in suicide bomb attack on Indonesian police
Indonesian police smash suicide bombing plot
Indonesian policemen (Source: AFP/VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Indonesian police announced on May 7 that they have arrested three suspects in Bogor district of West Java province, who had planned suicide bombing attacks against police. National police spokesman Inspector General Setyo Wasisto said evidence showed that the men had arranged to make high explosive bombs at the location where they were arrested. One of the three suspects had planned to blow himself up in the police headquarters in Bogor town in the outskirts of the country's capital, the spokesman said. Another man had plotted to stab policemen in a traffic police station in the town, while the third was ready to attack the mobile-brigade police command there, Wasisto said, adding that they have been transferred to a mobile-brigade jail in Jakarta. In raids, police seized explosive materials and devices for launching suicide bomb explosions, he added. Indonesia has suffered deadly attacks by Islamic militants including … [Read more...] about Indonesian police smash suicide bombing plot
Evacuation restarts in Syria following bomb blast on bus
(VOVworld) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has restarted the process of evacuating thousands of Syrians after a bloody blast near buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns in Northern Syria. At least 70 people were killed and 128 other injured in the bomb attack in the West of Aleppo on Saturday. A suicide bomber allegedly used a van meant for carrying potatoes to enter the area. The explosion came from a vehicle-born improvised explosive device, targeting residents who were evacuated from Fouaa and Kefraya towns, under a deal reached between the Syrian government and insurgents to evacuate 30,000 civilians from besieged towns. … [Read more...] about Evacuation restarts in Syria following bomb blast on bus