At least seven people, including five schoolchildren and a policeman, were killed in an explosion in Balochistan‘s Mastung in Pakistan, during a polio vaccination drive on Friday.According to local police chief Fateh Mohammad, a motorized rickshaw carrying schoolchildren was nearby when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded, injuring another 22 in the blast.“It appears…
SRINAGAR: A joint team of security forces arrested three terror associates in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district Monday and seized a cache of arms and ammunition — including an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) — from them, police said.The trio — Dawood Ahmad Dar, Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi, and Shahid Ahmad Dar, all residents of Hassanpora Tavela —…
BIJAPUR: A 25-year-old woman was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh‘s Bijapur district on Saturday, the police said. Shanti Punem was collecting tendu leaves near Mallur village within the limits of the Gangaloor police station when she died in the blast, a police official said. Engrossed in…
JAMMU: A major tragedy was averted on Saturday with the timely detection and destruction of a timer-based improvised explosive device (IED) that had been concealed in a tiffin box and planted along the Sidhra-Narwal stretch of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway near a police checkpoint.“Around 5.30pm, information was received about a suspicious object lying on the…
