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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Taliban storm Afghan court, kill seven: officials
Taliban militants stormed a court in northern Afghanistan on Monday and killed at least seven people including prosecutors, officials said.
Four attackers wearing army uniforms attacked a provincial appeals court in the city of Kunduz, triggering a four-hour gun battle with Afghan security forces, provincial police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.
“They first blew up an explosives-laden car at the gate of the court and then entered the building,” he said.
“The attackers killed six court officials and one police. Eight people were wounded,” he said, adding that the militants were also killed.
Chief prosecutor Amruddin Amin said the gunmen went door-to-door in the court compound, shooting their victims at close range.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on their website and said several court officials and prosecutors were killed.
They did not elaborate on the motive for the attack but the court was hearing several cases against Taliban militants.
Four attackers wearing army uniforms attacked a provincial appeals court in the city of Kunduz, triggering a four-hour gun battle with Afghan security forces, provincial police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.
“They first blew up an explosives-laden car at the gate of the court and then entered the building,” he said.
“The attackers killed six court officials and one police. Eight people were wounded,” he said, adding that the militants were also killed.
Chief prosecutor Amruddin Amin said the gunmen went door-to-door in the court compound, shooting their victims at close range.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on their website and said several court officials and prosecutors were killed.
They did not elaborate on the motive for the attack but the court was hearing several cases against Taliban militants.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Family tortures, kills Indian woman for ‘witchcraft’
A woman has been tortured and beaten to death by her in-laws in central India on suspicion of being a witch and practicing black magic, police said Monday.
Police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said relatives attacked the 55-year-old widow on Sunday after claiming her witchcraft had caused her nephew’s ill health.
“Chilli powder was put in her eyes, ears and private parts and they thrashed her severely, because of which she died,” Narendra Khare, Bemetara district police chief, told AFP.
The district is 125 kilometers west of the state capital Raipur.
Khare said the victim’s brother-in-law, his wife and other relatives of her late husband confronted her over the sick boy, demanding that she reverse whatever “black magic” had caused the illness.
When she protested her innocence, the relatives attacked her with sticks and punched and kicked her in front of her 28-year-old son. He later took her to hospital where she was declared dead.
Sunday, October 26, 2014
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