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Nationwide curfew imposed in Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 13 (ANI): Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide night curfew beginning from 9 pm on Monday to curtail escalated communal unrest in the country, one of the worst outbreaks since the deadly Easter suicide bombings.
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Death toll mounts to 8 in Lahore suicide bombing, 25 wounded
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): At least eight people, including three police personnel, were killed and 25 others were wounded in the suicide bombing outside the Data Darbar shrine here on Wednesday morning, according to Punjab Police spokesperson.
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Sri Lanka lifts ban on social media
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 30 (ANI): Sri Lanka on Tuesday lifted a temporary ban on several social media networks, which was put in place to prevent spreading misinformation after the ghastly suicide bombings on Easter Sunday.
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Sri Lanka Defence Secretary resigns
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 25 (ANI): Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando on Thursday stepped down from his post amid allegations of mishandling intelligence reports that came before the Easter Sunday attack.
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Sri Lanka: Two bombers were sons of business tycoon
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 25 (ANI): Two of the nine suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent family in Colombo, sources have told CNN.
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Sri Lanka attacks: One of the 9 suicide bombers a woman; 60 arrests made
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Apr 24 (ANI): One of the nine suicide bombers who carried out the blasts across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday was a woman, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said on Wednesday, adding that 60 arrests have been made in connection with the attacks.
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Sri Lanka blasts carried out by suicide bombers, authorities claim 'intell
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 22 (ANI): Sri Lankan authorities on Monday said that the eight deadly terror bombings which rattled different parts of the country amid Easter services a day before were carried out by suicide bombers.
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Toll rises to 20 in Quetta blast, 48 injured
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 12 (ANI): Toll in the suicide bomb blast that took place at a vegetable market in Hazar Gunji area of Quetta on Friday rose to 20, provincial authorities have said.
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3 US military personnel killed in Afghanistan suicide bombing
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Apr 9 (ANI): Three US service members and one contractor were killed after an explosive-laden vehicle targetted a convoy of foreign forces near Bagram airbase in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.
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3 suicide bombers, 6 attackers killed in Afghanistan's Helmand
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Lashkargah [Afghanistan], March 1 (ANI): Three suicide bombers and six attackers were killed after they attacked a military base in Helmand early Friday morning.
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Terror camp at Balakot produced suicide bombers
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 26 (ANI): The terror camp in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which was targeted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) early on Tuesday, was an advanced training centre where suicide bombers were produced.
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Suicide bomber who killed 27 members of IRGC was pakistani, says IRGC Comm
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Feb 19 (ANI): The Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour on Tuesday stated that the suicide bomber who recently killed 27 members of IRGC in the southeast of Iran were from Pakistan.
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