Category: Attack

Indonesian Police Say 4 Dead, 1 Missing in Papua Attack

JAYAPURA, Indonesia—Indonesian security forces on Saturday recovered the bodies of four construction workers who were killed in a separatist attack in the restive Province of West Papua, police said. The four men were killed late Thursday when gunmen stormed a government road construction project in remote Meyarga village in Bintuni Bay district, said West Papua…


Suicide Bomber Strikes Kabul Education Center, Killing 19

KABUL, Afghanistan—A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, including teenagers who were taking university practice entry exams, a Taliban spokesman said. The morning explosion at the center took place in Kabul’s Dashti Barchi neighborhood, an area populated mostly by…


Witnesses: Burma Air Attack Kills 13, Including 7 Children

BANGKOK—Government helicopters have attacked a school and village in north-central Burma (also known as Myanmar), killing at least 13 people including seven children, a school administrator and an aid worker said Monday. Civilian casualties often occur in attacks by the military government on pro-democracy insurgents and their allies. However, the number of children killed in…


Australian Man Killed by Kangaroo in Rare Fatal Attack

PERTH, Australia—A man who may have been keeping a wild kangaroo as a pet was killed by the animal in southwest Australia, police said Tuesday. It was reportedly the first fatal attack by a kangaroo in Australia since 1936. A relative found the 77-year-old man with “serious injuries” on his property Sunday in semirural Redmond,…


Edmonton Police Say They Have Made Arrest in Deadly Random Attack

Edmonton police say they have arrested a 25-year-old man after one person was killed and two were injured in what they called a random attack. They said in an email that Clarence Lawrence was taken into custody Wednesday just before 6 p.m. Earlier in the afternoon, police had warned people to avoid the northeast neighbourhood of Homesteader near Hermitage Road…


Minnesota Man Charged in Deadly Wisconsin River Attack

HUDSON, Wis.—A 52-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with killing a teenager and stabbing four other people in a dispute that allegedly began with a lost cellphone during a weekend tubing excursion on a western Wisconsin river. Investigators said in court documents that Nicolae Miu, of Prior Lake, Minnesota, attacked the group after people accused…


Inmate in Oklahoma Kills Officer at Privately Run Prison

HOLDENVILLE, Okla.—A corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison, officials said. The attack happened Sunday at the Davis Correctional Facility, which is a privately run prison in Holdenville about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. The inmate attacked the officer while a group of inmates was…


Turkey Rejects Claims of Attack on Civilians in Iraq’s Dohuk

ANKARA—Turkey has not carried out any attacks targeting civilians in Iraq’s Dohuk province, where a strike killed eight and wounded 23, and Iraqi authorities must not fall for this “trap,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Turkey on Wednesday rejected claims by Iraqi officials and state media that it had carried out an attack…


Hospital Details Injuries Abe Sustained in Attack

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation’s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said. Nara Medical University emergency department chief Hidetada Fukushima said Abe suffered major damage to his heart in addition to two…


Armed Men Kill at Least 22 in North Burkina Faso Attack

OUAGADOUGOU—Armed assailants killed at least 22 civilians in northwest Burkina Faso on Monday, a local official said, the latest deadly attack in an area marred by militant activity. The attackers raided a rural commune in the province of Kossi, around 55 kilometres from the border with Mali, in the hours between late Sunday night and…