15 militants killed in Pak
PESHAWAR, Aug 22: At least 15 militants, including a suicide bomber, were killed and four security personnel were injured in an overnight gunbattle with security forces in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The clash occurred at Karamzi Stop in the Azam Warsak area, bordering Afghanistan. Security forces seized a key militant compound and hoisted the national flag on the site. Nine people, including four security personnel, were injured during the exchange of fire. Two new check posts were established. In another incident, armed assailants killed a retired army Subedar after an attempted abduction. The victim, Ataullah, was attacked in the Norar area of Malagan, and three worshippers were injured in the crossfire. (PTI)
Indian-origin truck driver booked for homicide in US
NEW YORK, Aug 22: An Indian-origin truck driver, Harjinder Singh, is facing charges of vehicular homicide in the US after three people were killed when he allegedly took a wrong turn while driving a truck on a Florida highway. Singh, who fled to California after the incident, has been brought back to Florida following arrest. He faces three counts of vehicular homicide for allegedly making an illegal U-turn across a busy Florida highway in his tractor-trailer on August 12. The incident occurred when Gavin Newsom’s California DMV issued an illegal alien a Commercial Driver’s License, leading to the deaths of three innocent people. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a pause to all issuances of commercial truck driver work visas over a week after the incident. Singh entered the US illegally in 2018 and managed to obtain commercial driver’s licenses in both California and Washington. (PTI)
Gunmen kill five police officers in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 22: Gunmen on Friday killed five police officers in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, state media reported. The officers were patrolling in two police cars when they were attacked on the road near the city of Iranshahr, some 1,300 kilometres southeast of the capital, Tehran, according to the official IRNA news agency. It did not say how many policemen were injured in the attack. No group has so far taken responsibility for the attack. The province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces. It is one of the least developed provinces of Iran. In July, attackers launched a gun and grenade attack on a court building in the provincial capital, Zahedan, killing six people including a child, and wounding 20. (AP)
Five bodies unearthed near Kenya Cult site
KILIFI, Aug 22: Five bodies were exhumed from shallow graves in coastal Kenya, near where over 400 bodies of followers of a doomsday cult were recovered two years ago. The exhumation exercise uncovered 27 suspected mass graves, raising fears of more bodies being buried. (AP)