Malian forces killed 50 assailants in response to the attacks. Three days of national mourning will be observed in Mali to honour the deceased civilians and soldiers.
The exact number of fatalities, however, is yet to be ascertained as 13 people died on the spot, and several others succumbed to their injuries in hospitals in neighbouring Assam, a police officer said. A soldier also lost his life during the riots that followed.
In Kunduz city, capital of northern Kunduz province, 10 civilians were killed and 42 others wounded following early Saturday's clashes, hsanullah Fazli, director of Kunduz Public Health Directorate, told Xinhua news agency.
Shausta Jan Ahady, a former provincial council member, said that women and children were among those killed in the strike carried out a day earlier.
Government soldiers and security officials executed civilians and gang-raped women and girls during and after ethnically-charged fighting last month in the capital Juba. According to United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, officials
Baghdad: At least 22 civilians were killed and 70 others were injured when a suicide car bomb rocked ripped through a commercial area of a majority Shiite neighbourhood in Baghdad today. According to Xinhua news
Islamabad: Pakistan today claimed that two of its civilians have been killed in “unprovoked” firing by Indian security forces along the Line of Control. Pakistan's Punjab Rangers claimed that two civilians were killed in border
Beirut, Jan 9 : Security forces conducting raids on homes and pro-regime snipers on rooftops killed at least ten civilians, including a teenager, most of them in the central city of Homs today. Fierce clashes
Damascus, Dec 11 : World powers piled pressure on Syria to let in observers as activists reported at least 12 civilians killed by security forces on Saturday anniversary of International Human Rights Day.“The world celebrates
Nicosia, Nov 28: Syrian forces killed at least 23 civilians on Sunday, seven of them in the flashpoint region of Homs that has been under siege for several weeks in an operation to crush dissent,
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