ninjapundit: Daily Misfortune Sunday, January 17, 2016

Daily Misfortune Sunday, January 17, 2016 --- ===
Month Misfortune January 2017 ---

Sometimes accidents aren't accidents. Why do so many crimes and accidents look like random unconnected attacks with no apparent cause or link to a political motive?

Headlines:

2016 Jakarta attacks The confirmed death toll from this week's attacks rises to eight. (Reuters via Jerusalem Post)
War in Afghanistan (2015–present) A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 14 in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. (Reuters via LBC Australia), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Syrian Civil War Deir ez-Zor massacre ISIL militants abduct at least 400 civilians from the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor. (Sky News)
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) At least 13 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb while fleeing from fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIL near Ramadi. (Al-Jazeera)
Three Americans are missing, feared kidnapped, in Baghdad. Several unconfirmed reports claim that they were kidnapped by a shi'ite militant group. (Washington Examiner)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) A suicide-bomb attack outside the police chief's house in Aden, southern Yemen, leaves at least 7 people dead. (AP via ABC News)
At least five people are killed and ten injured in a microbus crash in Egypt's New Valley Governorate.(Ahram Online)
January 17, 2016 2 killed including suspect Utah police officer, suspect dead in gunfire exchange after hit and run

Detail:

2016 Jakarta attacks The confirmed death toll from this week's attacks rises to eight. (Reuters via Jerusalem Post)
War in Afghanistan (2015–present) A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 14 in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. (Reuters via LBC Australia), (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Syrian Civil War Deir ez-Zor massacre ISIL militants abduct at least 400 civilians from the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor. (Sky News)
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) At least 13 civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb while fleeing from fighting between Iraqi security forces and ISIL near Ramadi. (Al-Jazeera)
Three Americans are missing, feared kidnapped, in Baghdad. Several unconfirmed reports claim that they were kidnapped by a shi'ite militant group. (Washington Examiner)
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) A suicide-bomb attack outside the police chief's house in Aden, southern Yemen, leaves at least 7 people dead. (AP via ABC News)
At least five people are killed and ten injured in a microbus crash in Egypt's New Valley Governorate.(Ahram Online)
January 17, 2016 2 killed including suspect Utah police officer, suspect dead in gunfire exchange after hit and run SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah police officer was killed Sunday after he was shot by a suspect who was later killed by police. Douglas Barney was shot in the head...helping to search for 31-year-old Cory Lee Henderson and a woman. Witnesses said both were riding in a BMW that [fled after hit and run crash] Shortly after Barney was shot, responding officers encountered Henderson who was on foot. Winder said gunfire erupted with Henderson and police exchanging multiple rounds. Officer Jon Richey suffered three gunshot wounds, including one in the torso. Henderson died at the scene.