Posts Tagged ‘kills’

Car bomb kills 7 in Afghanistan

A car bomb exploded just outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said.

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Russia, China veto resolution on Syria, as bloody  massacre kills hundreds 

Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down amid escalating violence.

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Activists: Syrian Homs assault kills more than 200 (AP)

This image from amateur video made available by Shaam News Network on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, purports to show a wounded man being treated at a field hospital in Homs, Syria. Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs for hours before dawn on Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing scores of people in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.(AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL.  TV OUTAP – Syrian forces hammered restive neighborhoods in the city of Homs for hours with mortars and artillery before dawn Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.


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Off-duty cop kills would-be mugger in Brooklyn: police

The incident unfolded on Grove St. near Broadway in Bushwick about 11:50 p.m. Two men tried to rob the cop, who was walking to the subway to go to work at Brooklyn North Nightwatch, police said.

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Off-duty cop shoots, kills crook who tried to mug him

An off-duty cop fatally shot a robber in Brooklyn late Sunday night, officials said.

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Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people (AP)

Firemen hose down a commercial carrier truck on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, Fla., after it was involved in a multi-vehicle wreck which killed at least nine people in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012. Authorities were still trying to determine what caused the pileup on the highway, which had been closed for a time because of the mixture of fog and heavy smoke from a brush fire. At least five cars and six tractor-trailers were involved, and some burst into flame. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)AP – A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed.


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Swift-moving fire kills Bronx man 

A fast-moving fire killed a man and injured a woman in the Bronx Sunday morning. The blaze broke out inside the basement of a three-family home on E. 225th St. about 5:15 a.m.

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