Gunmen kill 27 in north-central Nigeria: Local sources
The attack on Monday evening in Jebu-Rahoss, in the Riyom local government area, wounded others who were sent to hospital, said Chuwang David, a local resident.
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- Arab News
Bangladeshi forces clash with supporters of ousted leader Hasina, leaving at least 4 dead
DHAKA: Bangladeshi security forces on Wednesday clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four people dead and scores injured, a hospital official and local media violence erupted in the morning and spread as a new political party formed by students who led the uprising against Hasina in August last year announced a march toward southwestern Gopalganj district, Hasina's ancestral home, and her Awami League party's later imposed an overnight curfew in the Hasina's ouster 11 months ago, Bangladesh has been marked by chaos and unchecked mob violence. Wednesday's attack underscores the deep divisions in the country as its interim government keeps failing to bring the deteriorating security situation under control.A chaotic situationTV footage showed pro-Hasina activists armed attacking police with sticks and setting vehicles on fire as a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying the leaders of the students' National Citizen Party arrived as part of commemorations of the leaders took shelter in the office of the local police chief. Footage showed top leaders were being escorted by soldiers to an armored vehicle for safety. They later left for a neighboring district with security Biswas, a senior official of a state-run hospital, told reporters that the bodies of at least three people had been brought in. The country's leading English-language Daily Star reported that four people interim government said Wednesday the attackers on the students would not go 'unpunished' and in a statement issued on behalf of interim leader Muhammad Yunus, described the violence in Gopalganj as 'utterly indefensible.'Hasina's Awami League party, which authorities banned in May, issued several statements on X condemning the violence and blaming the interim government for the deaths and injuries.'We urge the world to take note of this blatant use of security apparatus,' one Awami statement said, adding that it had used mob violence against 'dissenters.'Student leader Nahid Islam gave the authorities a 24-hour ultimatum to arrest those responsible for the Gopalganj violence and floated the prospect of another march in the neighboring district of Faridpur on right wing Jamaat-e-Islami party condemned the attacks on the student-led party and announced a nationwide protest in all districts and main cities for Thursday.A nation in turmoilCritics of the interim government warn of a widening polarization that has reduced hopes for national reconciliation even as Yunus' administration pledges to bring order in the post-Hasina era. They say if the situation does not improve, a peaceful transition to democracy would be Peace Prize laureate Yunus took over the country three days after Hasina was toppled and fled to India, pledging to restore order. He has promised a new election would be held in April next now faces charges of crimes against humanity while the government seeks her extradition from India, which has not responded to Bangladesh's is a politically sensitive district because Hasina father's mausoleum is located there. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's independence leader, was buried there after he was assassinated along with most of his family members in a military coup in National Citizen Party launched its 'July March to Rebuild the Nation' at the start of the month, saying they would take place across all districts as part of its drive to position itself as a new force in Bangladeshi political past has been largely dominated by two dynastic parties — Hasina's Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, headed by her rival and former prime minister Khaleda Zia. The BNP, which is hopeful of coming to power in the absence of Hasina's party, was mostly silent about Wednesday's violence.
Al Arabiya
3 hours ago
- Al Arabiya
Russian air defenses down three drones headed for Moscow: Mayor
Russian air defense units downed three Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow early on Thursday, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram. Sobyanin made no mention of casualties or damage. He said specialists were examining drone fragments at the sites where they hit the ground. Air defenses were in action in other parts of Russia. A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured six in Russia's southern city of Belgorod, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Gladkov said all six injured were being treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. Six homes suffered damage. Gladkov later reported another drone had injured a resident of a village northeast of Belgorod. Russia's defense ministry said Russian air defense units had destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones over a three-and-a-half-hour period ending at 11:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT). Twenty-nine of the drones were destroyed over Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border, with a further 16 over Bryansk region, another border region to the west. The governor of Voronezh region, also on the border, said several Ukrainian drones had been downed, and the governor of Smolensk region in western Russia said air defenses had downed one drone. One person was injured. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of targeting civilians, something both sides deny, in the course of the war, now well into its fourth year.
Arab News
13 hours ago
- Arab News
Three killed, 12 injured as gunmen target passenger bus in southwestern Pakistan
QUETTA: Three people were killed while 12 others were injured in Pakistan's southwestern Kalat district on Wednesday, police and an official confirmed, after unidentified men opened fire on a passenger bus headed toward Quetta. Kalat Station House Office (SHO) Habibullah Baloch said unidentified armed men shot indiscriminately at a passenger bus from Karachi headed toward Quetta on Wednesday. The attack took place near Nimragh Cross in Kalat district, located on the N-25 highway connecting Balochistan to the southern port city of Karachi. 'Three passengers, residents of Karachi, were killed in the attack and 12 others were wounded,' Baloch told Arab News, adding that the injured were shifted to the District Hospital Kalat for treatment. The police official said the attackers did not stop the bus to check the National Identity Cards (NICs) of the passengers before firing at them, adding that the gunmen 'sprayed' the vehicle with bullets. He said dozens of passengers were traveling in the bus, adding that most of them were residents of Karachi. Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind condemned the attack in a statement. 'The security forces have surrounded the area and a hunt for the attackers is underway,' Rind said. The latest attack has taken place after gunmen abducted and killed nine people last week when they stopped two passenger buses on a highway in Balochistan's Zhob and Loralai districts. Those buses were traveling from Quetta to the eastern Punjab province. Balochistan, Pakistan's largest but most impoverished province, has been the site of a long-running insurgency that has intensified in recent months, with separatist militants attacking security forces, government officials and installations and people from other provinces, particularly Punjab, the country's most populous and prosperous province and a major recruitment base for the military. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) is the strongest of a number of insurgent groups operating in the mineral-rich region bordering Afghanistan and Iran. The group accuses the central government of stealing their resources to fund development in Punjab and other parts of the country. The federal government denies the allegations and says it is working for the uplift of local communities in Balochistan, where China has been building a deep-sea port as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Pakistan accuses India of backing separatists in Balochistan as well as religiously motivated militant groups, like the Pakistani Taliban, in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. New Delhi denies the allegations. Balochistan has seen a rise in militant attacks since last year. Last August, nearly two dozen passengers were killed after BLA militants forcibly removed them from Punjab-bound buses in a string of coordinated attacks in Balochistan. Another seven Punjabi commuters were offboarded from buses and killed in Balochistan's Barkhan district in February this year. In March, BLA separatists hijacked a train that carried hundreds of passengers near Balochistan's Bolan Pass, which resulted in the deaths of 23 soldiers, three railway employees and five passengers. At least 33 insurgents were also killed.
