All Stories: blasts

QUETTA: Two explosions took place in Quetta's Chashma Achozai area on Saturday.

ANKARA: At least 86 people were killed Saturday when two explosions ripped through groups of leftist and pro-Kurdish activists gathering for an anti-government peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Another seven found guilty of involvement in the attacks in India's financial capital were sentenced to life imprisonment by the special court, their defence...

BAGHDAD: At least ‮‮23‬‬ people were killed and 68 others wounded when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said.

TIANJIN: Hundreds of tonnes of highly-poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin which killed 112, a senior military officer said Sunday.

TIANJIN: Residents around the site of giant chemical explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin were evacuated Saturday over fears of highly-poisonous sodium cyanide, state media said, as fresh blasts were heard and the death toll rose to 85.

MUMBAI: India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country's deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, after the Supreme Court threw out his final plea for a stay of execution.

PESHAWAR: Two persons including a security man were killed due to terrorists’ attacks in D I Khan and Peshawar on Tuesday, ARY News reported.

LAHORE: Fourteen people were killed and more than 70 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Lahore on Sunday, sparking mob violence in which two other suspected militants died.

QUETTA: Special commandos on Tuesday took positions at railway stations across Baluchistan in order to ensure safety and security of the citizens, ARY News reported.

CAIRO: One security officer and seven others were killed in two successive explosions around security areas in Egypt's Sinai region, near the border with Israel, the Interior Ministry and security officials said.