A former UN Peace Ambassador, identified as Mr. Dom Nduaguba shot a seven-year-old girl twice. Local sources claim that the little girl had been playing with others in a compound when the man shot her. Luckily, the seven-year old, Chinaza Obidigwu, miraculously escaped death and is now recuperating at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi.… Read More Ex-UN Peace official shoots girl twice in Anambra
Pakistani human rights activist, Khurram Zaki was gunned down at a restaurant in Karachi on Saturday night, fellow activist and lawyer Jibran Nasir said. The Hakimullah faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for Zaki’s death. “Our four friends in Karachi riding on two motorcycles targeted Khurram Zaki successfully,” faction spokesman Qari Saifullah said. Zaki,… Read More Anti-extremist activist killed in Pakistan
Eight plainclothes policemen in Egypt have been shot dead on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo, officials reported. Their white police van was ambushed in the early hours of Sunday morning in the southern district of Helwan. Four gunmen in a truck sprayed the vehicle with bullets from automatic weapons, the interior ministry said. Militants… Read More Islamic militants kill eight policemen in Egypt
Two NATO soldiers were killed in the south of Afghanistan and another injured when two attackers wearing the uniform of Afghan security forces opened fire on them, NATO reported. Romanian defence ministry officials said those killed were members of the Romanian special forces. The troops were shot while training police in the city of Kandahar.… Read More Two soldiers killed, one injured as armed men attack NATO training camp in Afghanistan
Three people were killed following separate shootings in the past 24 hours in Maryland. A law enforcement officer recently placed on administrative leave could be the suspect in all three shootings, police said. On Friday, one man was killed, and two others, a man and a woman, were wounded after being shot outside the Westfield… Read More Three dead in separate shootings in Maryland
A former employee opened fire on Wednesday at a transportation center in Texas, killing one person before turning the gun on himself, the sheriff said. The gunman had been terminated from his job at Knight Transportation in Katy, Texas, earlier on Wednesday morning, Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman told reporters. He later returned to the… Read More Sacked worker goes on shooting rampage in Texas
A 13-year-old boy carrying a replica handgun was shot and wounded on the anniversary of mass protests sparked by a black man’s death in police custody, police said. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told reporters near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting that two officers spotted the teenager carrying what appeared to be a firearm, identified… Read More Baltimore police shoots teenager, assault journalists on anniversary day of extra-judicial killing of Freddie Gray
Shootings early on Wednesday in north-central Mississippi have left three people dead and one severely injured, a Mississippi Bureau of Investigation official said. Multiple crime scenes are involved in the shootings in Montgomery County, located about 100 miles north of Jackson, according to Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain. A person of interest was… Read More Mississippi shootings leave three dead, one injured
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