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14 Children, 9 Women Killed as US-Led Air Strikes in Syria

14 Children, 9 Women Killed as US-Led Air Strikes in Syria

US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. “Twenty-six IS family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air strikes on Friday morning on the town of Hajin,” the Syrian Observatory for […]

November 12, 2018 | By | Reply More
Mudslide kills atleast 8 children in India’s remote mountainous northeast

Mudslide kills atleast 8 children in India’s remote mountainous northeast

A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains demolished tin-roofed homes on a hillside in northeastern India, killing at least eight children and one woman while they were sleeping, a government official said Wednesday. Some of them were swept away by the floodwaters. Rescuers have reached Tamenglong village to help other residents, said Deputy Commissioner Ravinder Singh. […]

July 11, 2018 | By | Reply More
At least 12 dead, including children, in Afghan suicide blast

At least 12 dead, including children, in Afghan suicide blast

A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed at least 12 people, including several children, on Tuesday, in an attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad claimed by Islamic State militants. The attacker detonated his explosives near a petrol pump, killing two officials working for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, and sparking a big fire. Ten civilians, including children, […]

July 10, 2018 | By | Reply More
At least 29 children disappeared in Sri Lanka- Rights group

At least 29 children disappeared in Sri Lanka- Rights group

At least 29 children disappeared in the custody of Sri Lanka’s military after surrendering with their ethnic rebel parents at the end of the island nation’s civil war, a human rights group said Tuesday. The South Africa-based International Truth and Justice Project said in a statement that it has 280 names of people who surrendered […]

May 16, 2018 | By | Reply More
Train hits school van at India crossing, killing 13 children

Train hits school van at India crossing, killing 13 children

Thirteen children were killed on Thursday when a school van collided with a train at an unmanned railway crossing in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said. Eight children were injured and taken hospital, said the official, adding there were 22 children in the vehicle. The accident took place early in […]

April 26, 2018 | By | Reply More
Strike on Syria’s Ghouta kills 15 children sheltering in school

Strike on Syria’s Ghouta kills 15 children sheltering in school

An air strike on a school in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 15 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in the dwindling rebel-held enclave of Ghouta that has been […]

March 20, 2018 | By | Reply More
UNICEF issues blank statement slamming war ON children in Syria

UNICEF issues blank statement slamming war ON children in Syria

The UN children’s fund on Tuesday expressed “outrage” over the killings of children in Syria by issuing a blank statement, adding in a footnote that “no words will do (them) justice”. The statement came after a ferocious Syrian regime bombing campaign pounded the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday, killing 127 civilians, 39 of […]

February 20, 2018 | By | Reply More
Chinese teacher used needles to discipline children

Chinese teacher used needles to discipline children

A Beijing kindergarten teacher used sewing needles to punish children for not sleeping, police said, but other abuse claims have been rejected by an investigation into a scandal that sparked national outrage. Authorities opened the probe into RYB Education New World kindergarten last week after parents said toddlers were given mysterious pills and had apparent […]

November 29, 2017 | By | Reply More
25 children and teachers die in fire at school in Malaysia

25 children and teachers die in fire at school in Malaysia

Twenty-five people, mostly children, were killed Thursday when a blaze tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapped in their dormitory by metal grilles on the windows. Pupils and teachers inside the Islamic study centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur screamed for help as neighbours looked on. Many of the bodies of the victims — who included […]

September 14, 2017 | By | Reply More
Children among 14 dead in new air strike on Yemen capital

Children among 14 dead in new air strike on Yemen capital

Children were among at least 14 people killed in an air strike that toppled residential blocks in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Friday, witnesses and medics said. The attack was the latest in a wave of deadly raids on residential areas of Yemen blamed on a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, drawing strong international condemnation. The United […]

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