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The murder of Farkhunda Malikzada was committed by a Muslim mob in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 19 March 2015. [1] Malikzada, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, had been involved in an argument with a street vendor over his practice of selling amulets when he publicly accused her of burning the Quran, attracting a large group of people from the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque. [2]
An Afghan interpreter held captive with British colleague Stephen Farrell of the New York Times, Munadi was killed during the rescue attempt. [14] 7 June 2008: Abdul Samad Rohani: Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province: The first Pajhwok Afghan News and BBC News journalist to be killed after being abducted and found dead the next day. His captors ...
April 6, 2011 – British troops accidentally killed two Afghan women in a car accident and shot dead a civilian man when an angry crowd attempted to prevent them from leaving. [15] April 19, 2011 – A NATO airstrike killed three Afghan civilians as well as 14 insurgents in Dangam district of Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan. District ...
The Congressional Gold Medal ceremony took place just one day before America marks the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 in New York City, northern ...
July 27, 2008 – Canadian troops opened fire on a vehicle that came too close to a Canadian convoy in Kandahar. A two-year-old girl and her four-year-old brother were killed and the father of the two children was wounded. [20] [21] August 7, 2008 – US troops killed four women and a child in an exchange of fire in an area of central Ghazni ...
Hilda I. Ortiz Clayton [b] (May 21, 1991 – July 2, 2013) was a U.S. Army combat photographer who was killed in 2013 when a mortar accidentally exploded during an Afghan training exercise. She captured the explosion that killed her and four Afghan soldiers. [ 1 ]
Two women died as a result of a mass shooting at a Rochester park on Sunday and five others suffered "relatively minor injuries," according to Rochester police.. Multiple shots were fired around 6 ...
Benjamin “Bambi” Williams, 41, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 30, and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the 2021 death of Joana Peca, 27, St. Petersburg police announced on ...