Taliban execute 21 Pak soldiers
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan executed 21 soldiers kidnapped during an attack on a checkpost on Thursday near Peshawar while at least 20 Shia pilgrims were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide blast targeting three buses near Quetta city on Sunday.
The bodies of the paramilitary soldiers were dumped in Hassan Khel, Peshawar. Their hands had been tied before they were shot. Local jirga (tribal assembly) members were sent to retrieve the bodies while the soldiers’ families have been informed about the incident. Also on Sunday, two soldiers were killed in North Waziristan Agency when an IED exploded.
“The suicide bomber targeted three buses carrying pilgrims in Mastung area near Quetta. The blast left 20 pilgrims dead and wounded over 30,” a police official said. “The pilgrims were travelling from Taftan, in Iran, to Quetta after visiting holy sites,” he added. “Those wounded have been shifted to District Hospital Mastung. Some of them are serious,” the police official said.
Shia pilgrims are often targeted in Quetta while travelling on pilgrimage to and from Iran.
Another official said the bomb was remote-controlled. “We are investigating but it seems it was a remote-controlled bomb. The bomb was planted in a car,” he added.
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One charged with ny hate crime murder
Yoshita Singh
New York, Dec. 30
Two days after she shoved an Indian man to his death onto a subway train track here, a 31-year-old woman has been charged with “hate crime murder” as she admitted before the police that she had pushed him because she “hated Hindus and Muslims”.
Erika Menendez was ordered held without bail at her arraignment on Saturday night and appeared to express no remorse for her crime that left 46-year-old Sunando Sen dead. Menendez was laughing in a maniacal manner during her arraignment, prompting an angry response from even the judge, the New York Daily News said.
The Queens resident started laughing as prosecutors read out her statements to authorities. —PTI
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