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syyuge:
2 bomb blasts in Nigeria kill at least 118:
JOS, Nigeria — Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria's central city of Jos on Tuesday. Initial reports said the blasts killed at least 46 people and wounded dozens. But the news agency AFP news just reported that the death toll is at least 118.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin car bombs, but they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group.
The second blast came half an hour after the first, killing some of the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, which was obscured by billows of black smoke.
Dozens of bodies and body parts were covered in grain that had been loaded in the second car bomb, witnesses said. A Terminus Market official said he helped remove 50 casualties, most of them dead. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to give information to reporters.
"It's horrifying, terrible," said Mark Lipdo of the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian charity based in Jos., who could smell burning human flesh.
At least 46 people were killed, according to Superintendent Felicia Anslem Ali, police spokeswoman for Plateau state.
http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-Breaking+Silent/200114/2-bomb-blasts-in-nigeria-kill-at-least-118#.U3zClHYrOho
syyuge:
Terrorist attack kills dozens in China's tense Xinjiang region:
Hong Kong (CNN) -- A series of explosions tore through an open-air market in the capital of the volatile western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing dozens of people and wounding many more, state media reported.
China's Ministry of Public Security said the attack in the heavily policed city of Urumqi was "a serious violent terrorist incident" and vowed to crack down on its perpetrators. President Xi Jinping called for the terrorists behind it to be "severely" punished.
Two SUVs slammed into shoppers gathered at the market in Urumqi at 7:50 a.m. Thursday, and explosives were flung out of the vehicles, China's official news agency Xinhua said.
The vehicles then exploded, according to Xinhua, which said at least 31 people were killed and more than 90 wounded.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/21/world/asia/china-xinjiang-explosions/
syyuge:
Northern Nigeria bomb blast 'kills football spectators':
At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a bar that was screening a televised football match in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.
The attack place in the town of Mubi in Adamawa state, close to the border with Cameroon.
Adamawa is one of three states that have been placed under emergency rule because of an insurgency waged by Islamist Boko Haram militants.
However, no-one has yet said they carried out the latest attack.
"So far we have 14 dead while 12 are injured, some of them critically," said the police spokesman for Adamawa state, Usman Abubakar.
Some reports put the death toll higher.
According to the BBC's Nigeria correspondent, Will Ross, it is hard to get eyewitness accounts because of an overnight curfew in the area.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27658736
syyuge:
Pak Taliban claims responsibility for attack on Karachi airport, 24 dead
AFP
Karachi, June 09, 2014
Pakistan's military on Monday declared an end to an all-night offensive to quell a Taliban siege of Karachi airport that left 24 people dead, including 10 militants, and threatens to destroy a nascent peace process.
The attack at Jinnah International Airport in Pakistan's biggest city began just before midnight Sunday and raged until dawn, when the military said that all 10 attackers had been killed after they had stormed two areas equipped with suicide vests, grenades and rocket launchers.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group said the attack was in revenge for its late leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike in November.
TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid also dismissed the Pakistani government's recent offer of a new round of peace talks as a ruse, and promised more attacks to come.
"We carried out this attack on the Karachi airport and it is a message to the Pakistan government that we are still alive to react over the killings of innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages," said Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesperson.
"Pakistan used peace talks as a tool of war," he told AFP.
"We have yet to take revenge for the deaths of hundreds of innocent tribal women and children in Pakistani air strikes.
The assault will raise fresh concerns about Pakistan's shaky security situation, and questions about how militants were able to penetrate the airport, which serves one of the world's biggest cities.
Officials said the gunmen entered from two sides of the airport at around 11:00 pm on Sunday -- the terminal used for the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, and an engineering section close to an old terminal that is no longer in use.
An AFP reporter witnessed three huge blasts as suicide bombers detonated their explosives.
Smoke was seen billowing from the airport as fires raged close to planes parked on the runway, while militants, some dressed in army uniform, clashed with the airport's security force who were backed by police, paramilitary squads and elite commandos.
A senior intelligence official said it appeared the militants had aimed to hijack a plane that passengers were boarding at the main terminal, but that when they were repelled they went on the rampage.
"The passenger plane at Jinnah terminal was their target and when they failed to reach there they destroyed two private terminals in frustration," he told AFP.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/karachi-airport-siege-pak-army-declares-area-cleared-21-dead/article1-1227474.aspx
The protracted war of muslamic infighting continues everywhere.
syyuge:
Second attack at Karachi airport
http://www.smh.com.au/world/second-attack-at-karachi-airport-20140610-zs39s.html
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