Three deadly terrorist attacks claims the lives of dozens of people and leaves scores more wounded in three countries.
Afganistan -16 Dead, 60 Wounded
A suicide bomber attacked an anti-corruption demonstration in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 16 people and wounding up to 60, officials said.
The explosion in the eastern city of Khost wounded a local member of parliament, Hamayun Hamayoon, according to Mubarez Mohammed Zadran, the provincial governor’s spokesman.
Khost is a volatile province along the border with Pakistan where the Taliban have an entrenched, long-term presence. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of people have arrived in the province fleeing a Pakistani army offensive against Taliban strongholds across the border.
No claim of responsibility for the attack has yet been made.
Kenya-70 Dead, 65 Wounded
Somalia‘s al-Shabaab Islamist group claimed responsibility for an attack that has left at least 70 dead and 65 wounded at a University in the city of Garissa, near the Somalia-Kenya border.
Reports claim that 4 gunmen from the Somalian terrorist group have also taken many Christian hostages. The terrorists are still present in the university compound. All Muslim hostages have been freed.
The Police have still not entered the compound.
“We are finding it difficult to access the compound because some of the attackers are on top of a building and are firing at us whenever we try to gain entry”, a policeman at the scene said.
Egypt- 17 Dead, 29 Wounded
Islamic militants on Thursday attacked an army checkpoint in the restive north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding 19, security officials said.
They said four other attacks on army checkpoints at about the same time killed two civilians and wounded 10 more. The four attacks appeared to have been aimed at diverting attention from the main assault on the checkpoint south of the turbulent town of Sheikh Zuweid, said the officials.
(With Agency inputs)
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