Tag: #Gunmen
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Gunmen kidnap pupils in Nigeria’s restive northwest
Kano, Nigeria, March 15 (AFP/APP): Gunmen on Monday seized an unspecified number of primary school pupils and teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, the government said, in a region wracked by banditry and kidnapping. The raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in Nigeria, coming just four days after 39…
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Gunmen in Kabul Killed a Woman
Kabul, Dec 24 (AFP/APP): Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan’s capital Thursday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations ravages the violence-wracked country. Freshta Kohistani, aged 29, was the second activist to be killed in two days after a prominent pro-democracy advocate was gunned down…
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Libyan Interior Minister Suspended
The Libyan Interior Minister has been suspended after gunmen opened fire on protestors.
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Fierce gun battle rocks El Chapo’s bastion in Mexico
Culiacán, Mexico, Oct 18 (AFP/APP): Heavily armed gunmen in four-by-four trucks fought an intense battle against Mexican security forces Thursday in the city of Culiacan, capital of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s home state of Sinaloa. Sustained, heavy gunfire ground the western city of 750,000 people to a halt, in a battle that left…