India police arrest main suspect after teen raped, burned alive
- 06-May-2018
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Sunday they have arrested the main suspect in the gang rape and gruesome murder of a teenage girl, in the latest of several high-profile sexual assault cases in the country. The local village chief has also been detained while the 16-year-old victim’s family have been given special police protection. Dhanu […]
A visual that shows just how many Rohingya villages have been burned
- 01-Jan-2018
In the four months since the Myanmar military began a crackdown after Rohingya militants attacked an army base and police posts on Aug. 25, around 655,000 members of the stateless Muslim minority have fled the western state of Rakhine and crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh. A Reuters graphic makes use of data from the U.N. Operational […]
Indian woman burned to death after leaving boyfriend
- 25-Sep-2017
NEW DELHI: A father and son have been arrested in India for allegedly burning a woman alive over a soured relationship, authorities said Monday. The 18-year-old was beaten by her former boyfriend and his father before being doused in kerosene and set alight in a district of Rajasthan state in western India, police said. “She […]
Rohingya Muslims flee as more than 2,600 houses burned in Myanmar’s Rakhine
- 02-Sep-2017
COX‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh: More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest violence against the Muslim minority in decades. About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as […]
Texas mosque destroyed in ‘mysterious’ blaze
- 29-Jan-2017
VICTORIA, Texas: An early-morning fire has destroyed a Texas mosque that had been a target of hatred in the past. The Victoria Advocate reports that a convenience store clerk spotted smoke and flames billowing from the Islamic Center of Victoria at around 2 a.m. Saturday and called the fire department. Jeff Cowan, battalion chief for the city’s […]
17-year-old girl ‘set on fire’ in Lahore for freewill marriage
- 08-Jun-2016
LAHORE: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly set on fire by her mother and brothers for marrying on her freewill, ARY News reported.
In India, second journalist killed, burned in two weeks
- 23-Jun-2015
NEW YORK: On June 20, the burned body of a journalist was found in the Indian state of Maharashtra, a day after he had been kidnapped, according to media reports. The murder of Sandeep Kothari comes as the second such one of a journalist in India in less than two weeks.
Mexico says missing students likely burned to ashes by gang
- 08-Nov-2014
MEXICO CITY: Forty-three missing students abducted by corrupt police in southwest Mexico six weeks ago were apparently incinerated by drug gang henchmen and their remains tipped in a garbage dump and a river, the government said on Friday.