Toll in Boko Haram raids rises to 15
Yaounde (Cameroon): At least 15 people were killed in two attacks blamed on Boko Haram in northern Cameroon, with the wife of the country's deputy prime minister among a dozen people reportedly kidnapped, a security source said on Monday. The death toll from the two reportedly simultaneous raids on Sunday by Nigerian Islamic extremists on the palace of the Sultan Kolofata, and the nearby home of one of the country's most senior politicians, deputy premier Amadou Ali, rose on Monday from six to at least 15.
Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill 21 Filipinos
Manila: Abu Sayyaf gunmen killed at least 21 villagers, including women and children, in a road attack on Monday as the civilians travelled in two vans to visit relatives and celebrate the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in the southern Philippines, military officials said. The brazen attack on the civilians also wounded about a dozen other villagers,officials said.
Veteran Radio Beijing Hindi announcer dies
Beijing: Shyama Ballabh, a former Hindi announcer of erstwhile Radio Beijing and a long-time Indian resident of China, passed away here on Sunday at the age of 76. She had been suffering from ill-health from some time and is survived by husband Janaki Ballabh and two sons Akhil and Atul Dalakoti.
Girl killed, seven hurt in thailand bomb attack
Bangkok: A ten-year-old girl was killed and seven people, including two other girls, were injured in a roadside bomb attack in Thailand’s insurgency affected southern region. Suspected ultras set-off a radio-controlled bomb near an army base in Pattani province’s Sai Buri district, when soldiers were returning to their base after finishing their guard duty at a mosque, police Col Panya Karawanan said.
‘Six children killed in Aleppo bombing’
Beirut: Six children were among at least 15 civilians killed in overnight bomb attacks by Government and rebel forces in the divided city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Monday. “At least nine civilians, three of them children, were killed in barrel bombs (dropped by regime aircraft) in Shaar,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
B’desh plane catches fire at Nepal airport
Kathmandu: All passengers on board a Bangladeshi aircraft escaped unhurt on Monday when the plane caught fire while landing at the airport in the Nepalese capital. The aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines caught fire during landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport. The fire was immediately controlled, Ekantipur news portal reported.