A “terrorist attack” rocked Turkey’s capital city Ankara on Sunday. A suicide bomber blew him up near the Turkish Parliament. The video of the horrific incident was caught on camera.
Members of Turkish Police Special Forces secure an area following an explosion near the Interior Ministry in Ankara, (Photo: X)
In the video, it could be seen that the terrorists came out of a car and blew himself up after reaching near Parliament.
The powerful explosion was heard for several kilometres from the attack site. Turkey’s Interior Ministry said two attackers arrived in a commercial vehicle around 9:30 am (0630 GMT) “in front of the entrance gate of its General Directorate of Security and carried out the attack.
“One of the terrorists blew himself up and the other was neutralised,” the ministry said as quoted by AFP. Two police officers were injured in the attack.
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Police officers were injured after a suicide bombing attack in front of the Interior Ministry in the Turkish capital, Ankara
Suicide bombings ripped through two mosques in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 57 people, including seven children, as believers marked the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad, police and health officials said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, from which the death toll could climb, with many people seriously injured and others having been trapped beneath the wreckage.
In the first blast, in Mastung in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle where people were gathering for a procession, senior police official Munir Ahmed said.
At least 52 people were killed, according to district health official Abdul Rasheed, including the children who were aged nine to 11. At least 58 people were injured.
“The injured were crying for help,” witness Munir Ahmed Shahwani said.
“I saw at least 25 bodies on the spot, which included small children,” he said, adding people were looking for their loved ones.
A deputy superintendent of police was among those killed as he oversaw security arrangements in the area, police said.
“Nawaz Gishkori tried to stop the suicide bomber, but he blew himself up after getting close to him,” Javed Lehri, a senior police officer said.
The gathering, in which people were carrying flags and banners, was at a mosque belonging to the Barelvi sect, generally considered more moderate than hardline Islamic sects such as Salafism.
Some hardline sects consider veneration of the Prophet Mohammad as heresy.
People gather outside the Mastung hospital, following a deadly suicide attack on a religious gathering in Balochistan province, Pakistan, September 29, 2023 in this handout image. Shaheed Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani Memorial Hospital Mastung/Handout via REUTERS
The second attack, in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killed five people at a mosque, according to rescue officials. The roof collapsed, broadcaster Geo News said, trapping about 30 to 40 people under the rubble.
The attack involved two explosions, one of which was at the mosque gate and the other in the compound, an official said.
A surge in militant attacks in Pakistan’s western provinces has cast a shadow on election preparations and public campaigning in the run-up to January’s national election, but until now the attacks had mostly targeted security forces.
Both provinces border Afghanistan and have suffered attacks in recent years by Islamist militants aiming to overthrow Pakistan’s government and install their own brand of strict Islamic law.
A fire broke out at a Lord Ganesh pandal in Pune where BJP president J P Nadda was offering prayers along with the party’s Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday evening.
Visuals from the scene showed Nadda being safely escorted out of the venue even as the fire engulfed the top portion of the makeshift pandal in the Lokmanya Nagar area in the heart of the city.
No casualty was reported in the incident.
A fire brigade official said the blaze may have been caused by fireworks at the pandal set up by the Sane Guruji Ganesh Mitra Mandal.
The man has been identified as a BJP worker and has been held. He was just 10 feet away from the Prime Minister’s car after he jumped. Police and security officials immediately caught him.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: Screengrab from ANI)
There was a breach in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security in Varanasi. A man jumped in front of PM Modi’s convoy in Varanasi, asking for a job. The incident took place outside the Rudraksh Centre in Varanasi, when PM Modi’s convoy was on its way to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport.
The man, identified as Krishna Kumar, is a BJP worker. He was held after and is being questioned. A resident of Ghazipur, the man was just 20 meters away from the Prime Minister’s convoy. Police and security officials immediately caught him.
The man was seen running towards PM Modi’s convoy. (Source: India Today)
According to the police, Krishna is a resident of Ghazipur and wanted to meet PM Modi. “Krishna Kumar, son of Bharat Kumar, is a senior BJP worker. He is mentally disturbed and wanted to meet PM Modi,” an official said.
EXPLOSIONS rocked Moscow this morning after Russia attempted to stop a suspected kamikaze Ukrainian drone attack that almost hit a top Putin pundit.
The aerial assault strike wreaked havoc in the capital as flight travel was paralysed only hours after Volodymyr Zelenksy vowed revenge following a deadly Russian missile strike.
Russian claims that two Ukrainian drones were shot down over Moscow’s suburbsCredit: East2WestThe aftermath of a Ukrainian drone that was hit and fell close to pro-war fanatic and Putin’s ‘Iron Doll’Credit: East2WestThe UAV attack caused chaos at Moscow’s main airports and disrupted hundreds of flightsCredit: East2West
Russia claimed to have foiled two attacks by Ukrainian drones this morning, which caused chaos at all of Moscow’s major airports and disruptions to hundreds of flights.
The reports stated that Russian air defences had jammed one of the drones in the Ruzsky district west of the capital and later destroyed another one in the Istrinsky district nearby.
At least two were injured when one of the downed drones fell on a house in the Istrinsky suburb, a regional governor said.
The UAV reportedly exploded close to the sprawling mansion of the Russian propagandist and pro-war fanatic Margarita Simonyan.
The head of the RT state media empire – also known as Putin’s “iron Doll” – complained on Telegram that the drone was shot down “on the street next to us” in her wealthy Moscow suburb.
Pictures showed the trail of air defence missiles, while video captured the moment a drone exploded as it was struck by an air defence strike.
Moscow major airports – Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky – were closed for two hours as air space around the capital was shut under the “Carpet regime”, an emergency plan for incoming drones.
One pilot told passengers: “All airports in Moscow are closed.”
At least four planes bound for Domodedovo were diverted as far as Kazan, some 500 miles to the east.
It comes after Ukrainian president Zelensky promised retaliation for Saturday’s Russian missile strike on the city centre of Chernihiv that killed seven, including a 6-year-old girl.
He vowed that his soldiers would give a “notable response” to the “terrorist attack”, which claimed the life of little Sofia and other victims.
At least 15 children were also among the 148 wounded and at least 25 civilians had been treated in hospital after the strike that the UN deplored as “heinous”.
Drone air strikes deep inside Russia, and often targeted at the capital, have increased since two drones were destroyed over the Kremlin in early May.
As August began, two drone strikes hit government buildings in the heart of Moscow in a devastating blow to Putin.
A week later, the capital was enveloped in further chaos as Ukrainian aerial assaults wreaked havoc above Moscow once again.
Only last week, another huge explosion lit up the capital’s skies after a drone blasted through a building only three miles from the Kremlin.
The attack trailed in the short wake of a Ukrainian naval kamikaze drone strike on Putin’s beloved £3billion bridge that connects annexed Crimea to Russia.
Over the weekend, a daring drone attack deep inside Russia destroyed one of Putin’s prized Tu-22 supersonic bombers at Soltsy airbase.
