Six police die in Burkina Faso blast
Ouagadougou: Six police officers were killed in an ambush with an improvised explosive device in the northern Burkina Faso town of Solle near the border with Mali, security sources told AFP Saturday. “A police convoy was ambushed in Solle” late on Friday, a security source said.
Turkey arrests 137 in anti-PKK raids
Ankara: Turkish authorities have arrested 137 people in a country-wide operation over two days aimed at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), state news agency Anadolu said on Saturday.
The PKK, designated as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, is regularly targeted in security forces raids.
Two killed in bomb blasts in kabul
Kabul: At least two Afghan security forces were killed on Saturday in Taliban attacks in the capital Kabul, officials said. Basir Mujahid, spokesman for Kabul’s police chief, said that nine others, including six police officers and three civilians, were wounded in the bomb blasts. Mujahid said a roadside bomb hit a military vehicle as police arrived to respond to an insurgent attack, then a second blast took place in the same area causing casualties.
7 die in Iran floods
Tehran: Heavy rains in the northern and northwestern parts of Iran over the past two days claimed at least seven lives.
The unprecedented floods in the three provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan and Golestan destroyed roads, houses, bridges and caused heavy damage to the infrastructures, according to Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency.
Cars were stuck in floods and electricity as well as gas flows in the rural areas were disrupted.