Jan 07,2023:At least 29 people, including 10 soldiers, have been killed in an operation to arrest the son of jailed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s government says after a shootout with cartel members.
Ovidio Guzman, nicknamed “El Raton”, or “The Mouse”, was rounded up early on Thursday in the northern state of Sinaloa and flown to Mexico City on a military plane.
“Ten members of the military … unfortunately lost their lives in the line of duty,” Defence Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters on Friday, adding 19 “lawbreakers” were also killed in the operation. Another 35 soldiers sustained gunshot wounds.
Members of the Sinaloa Cartel and their associates went on a rampage after Ovidio Guzman’s arrest, fighting security forces, setting vehicles on fire and blocking roads across the Pacific coastal state.
The violence was concentrated in and around Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, home of the powerful drug cartel, which “El Chapo” headed before his capture in 2016 and extradition to the United States in 2017.
Mangaluru,Nov 21,2022: The Karnataka police have exposed global terror plot in the Mangaluru autorikshaw blast case.
Karnataka ADG (Law and Order) Alok Kumar said Shariq, the injured passenger who was traveling in the ill-fated autorikshaw, was being handled by a handful of people belonging o terrorist groups including Mussavir Hussain and Arafat Ali.
Shariq was planning more blasts in coastal cities of Karnataka, Kumar said.
The accused was given to ISIS ideology and made bomb at his home. On September 19, he, along with two others, carried out a trial blast at Tunga River bank in Shivamogga.
The police have also filed a case against Shariq for impersonation.
Kumar said Shariq was in possession of Aadhar cards belonging to three persons.
During the raid, the police found explosive material from Shariq’s room in Mysuru.
He also said that Shariq had conducted a recce of the city to conduct blasts and had arrived in Mangaluru a week ago.
All the digital evidence is also being extracted by the FSL team, Kumar said.
Oct 25,2022:Air strikes by Myanmar’s military killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration of the Kachin ethnic minority’s main political organization, members of the group and a rescue worker said Monday.
The reported attack comes three days before Southeast Asian foreign ministers are to hold a special meeting in Indonesia to discuss widening violence in Myanmar.
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The number of casualties at Sunday night’s celebration by the Kachin Independence Organization in the northern state of Kachin appeared to be the most in a single air attack since the military seized power in February last year from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Initial reports put the death toll at around 60, but later tallies raised it to about 80.
It was impossible to independently confirm details of the incident, though media sympathetic to the Kachin posted videos showing what was said to be the attack’s aftermath, with splintered and flattened wooden structures.
The military government’s information office confirmed in a statement late Monday that there was an attack on what it described as the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army’s 9th Brigade, calling it a “necessary operation” in response to “terrorist” acts carried out by the Kachin group.
Bangkok, Oct 06,2022:Thirty-four people were killed in Thailand on Thursday in a mass shooting and knife attack at a day-care centre by a former policeman who killed his wife and child before shooting himself dead, reported Reuters citing officials.
The victims included 22 children as well as adults, police said in a statement. However, the motive behind his act is unclear, the report says. The ex-cop was discharged from the service for drug-related reasons, district official Jidapa Boonsom told the news agency.
About 30 children were at the centre when the gunman came in around lunchtime, he added.
UNITED NATIONS,Sept 19,2022:The United States accused Moscow of committing a war crime on Wednesday by forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia and said it has information that Russian officials are overseeing so-called filtration operations.
“These operations aim to identify individuals Russia deems insufficiently compliant or compatible to its control,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the U.N. Security Council.
She said estimates from a variety of sources, including Moscow, indicate that authorities have “interrogated, detained, and forcibly deported” between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainians to Russia following the Russian invasion in late February.
In July alone Washington had information that more than 1,800 children were transferred from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine to Russia, Thomas-Greenfield said.