Daily Misfortune Saturday July 19, 2014 ---
On this day:
- 43 killed 6 injured, 5 cars, van, bus destroyed July 19, 2014 At Least 38 Killed in Fiery China Road Accident At least 38 people were killed when a van carrying inflammable liquid hit a bus on a highway in central China early Saturday, state media reported.
News:
- 6 attackers killed July 17, 2014 Taliban gunmen fire RPG rockets at Kabul International Airport Gunmen have attacked the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. The militants occupied two buildings under construction using them as a base to fire shots with automatic weapons and launch rocket-propelled grenades toward the airport. Several rockets had hit the airport but no planes had been damaged so far. The military side of Kabul’s International Airport, which is home to Afghan and NATO-led forces, was apparently the main target of the attack. Taliban has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. There were no casualties among Afghan security forces or civilians\
- 1 shot at, 1 car damaged, 1 arrested July 18, 2014 83-year-old VW driver arrested for Miami road rage shooting. In Miami Florida, Miguel Garcia turned into traffic, cutting off a red Volkswagen Beetle driven by 83-year-old Mario Perez-Tano. After an argument, Mario Perez-Tano got out and fired two shots at a tire and driver's window. Garcia sped away but was pursued by Perez-Tano until stopped at a draw bridge when police arrested Perez-Tano and charged with attempted murder.
- 4,268 civilians killed or wounded by explosive devices July 19, 2014 In Pakistan, a master bomb tech fights a new kind of war WashingtontonPost Pakistan suffers not just from Islamist extremism but a broader breakdown in order, with bombs planted by extortionists, people feuding over money and property, and assassins targeting religious minorities... one of his staffers brought in two grenades that had been thrown at a police vehicle... Last year, 4,268 civilians were killed or wounded in Pakistan because of explosive devices, according to Action on Armed Violence, a London-based group that monitors violence. Only Iraq and Syria logged more casualties from bombings, the group noted... increasingly pervasive culture of bombings can be traced to the 1980s, when Pakistan hosted hundreds of thousands of Islamic fighters battling the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Pakistan worked with the United States and other countries to make sure the guerrillas were trained to use land mines and plastic explosives...describes bombs as a modern-day form of mugging in Peshawar, with extortionists and robbers increasingly using them.
- World report on explosives deaths pdf
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38 killed when van carrying flammable liquid hitsbus in China
Beijing (CNN) -- A van carrying flammable liquid rammed into a bus inChina early Saturday, sparking a fiery explosion that left 38 peopledead, ...
International Business Times - 10 hours ago
www.bbc.com/.../world-asia-china-2838...
British Broadcasting Corporation
16 hours ago - At least 38 people have been killed when a lorry carrying flammable liquid collided with a long-distance bus in the southern Chinese province ...
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| Washington Post | - 4 hours ago |
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The United Nations estimates that roughly 80 percent of the casualties are civilians, many of them children. The Israel Defense Forces released a new estimate saying that since the beginning of the ground operation late Thursday, “some 70 terrorists ...
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(KMOV.com) - Police said the suspect arrested in the death of a Waterloo man has been released from jail without any pending charges.
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| Aljazeera.com | - 6 hours ago |
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Police sources told Al Jazeera that the car bomb in Kadhimiyah killed nine people and injured 20 others. Hospital officials in Baghdad confirmed the casualty figures in all of the attacks.
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State Police say the shootings were drug-related, and they have asked to Maine Drug Enforcement Agency to assist in the investigation.
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| Aljazeera.com | - 10 minutes ago |
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Armed men have killed 21 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya, highlighting a growing threat from an area that authorities say has become a haven for fighters seeking to topple the Cairo government.
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| Kansas City Star | - 4 hours ago |
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Leavenworth police on Saturday identified the girl who was killed Friday night in an exchange of gunfire between a man and police as 5-year-old Cadence Harris of Leavenworth.
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But on Saturday, the Observatory, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of sources in the country on both sides, quoted "trusted sources" as saying that the Islamic State had "killed and executed" 270 people during the assault. It said at ...
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| Providence Eyewitness News | - 5 hours ago |
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Providence police have confirmed that a young man was shot and killed early Saturday morning on River Avenue.
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| WGNtv.com | - 4 hours ago |
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An eleven-year-old girl has died after being shot in the head inside a home on Chicago's West Side. 11-yr-old Chicago Police say the girl was hit by a stray bullet in a home in the 3900 block of West Gladys Avenue in the Garfield Park neighborhood at 9 ...
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Officers responding to a shooting call at about 1:30 a.m. found Cary Terell McLean lying the front yard of 418 D. St. after being confronted by a large group of people, Police Chief Troy A. McDuffie said in a statement.
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July 1, 2014 - People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Many blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group whose birthplace is Maiduguri and which is accused of a series of recent bomb attacks ...
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| NPR (blog) | - 13 hours ago |
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Quinn Schansman, the dual U.S.-Dutch citizen killed on Malaysia Airlines MH17, was reportedly planning to join his family in Kuala Lumpur for vacation when the plane he was on was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
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| STLtoday.com | - Jul 18, 2014 |
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Waterloo Police Chief Jim Trantham said a woman, Alicia Pence, 26 and her two sons, 1 and 3, also were home at the time of the stabbing. Trantham said Boyer showed up at the home and a fight broke out between him and Russell. Trantham said it ...
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A major explosion. From that, we would assume that there was a build up of some type of gas." The home did not have gas service.
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