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Showing posts with label suicide bombing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide bombing. Show all posts
The NYPD is responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin at 42nd Street and 8th Ave, #Manhattan. The A, C and E line are being evacuated at this time. Info is preliminary, more when available. pic.twitter.com/7vpNT97iLC
THERE are fears New York suffered another terror attack today after following an explosion at Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square.
Police have yet to reveal the nature of the device but local reports suggest a a suicide belt or pipe bomb detonated prematurely underground at the packed bus and train interchange.
The area around Port Authority Bus Station has been evacuated and one man reportedly taken into custody.
Emergency services have swarmed the scene close to Manhattan’s Times Square Several people are feared to have been injured and witnesses reported a stampede as panicked commuters rushed to escape the scene.
An officer reportedly told CBS News that cops are looking at a possible suicide bomber, although the situation is said to be “fluid”.
One injured man is believed to have been taken into custody but police have yet to confirm this.
AOW here...Fox News on-the-ground reporter has stated, "The suspect has a foreign name. What kind of foreign, I can't tell."
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — A group claiming to be a Yemeni branch of the Islamic State group says it carried out a string of suicide bombings in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, that killed a total of 137 people and injured 345 others.
The group posted an online statement saying that five suicide bombers carried out what it described as a "blessed operation" against the "dens of the Shiites."
The bombers attacked the Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques, located across town from each other, during midday Friday prayers.
The claim, posted in an online statement, could not immediately be independently confirmed and offered no proof of an IS role. It was posted on the same website in which the Islamic State affiliate in Libya claimed responsibility for Wednesday's deadly attack on a museum in Tunisia.
More than 120 people died and hundreds were injured as four suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Yemen’s capital city.
So many people were killed or injured that hospitals in Sanaa struggled to cope with the emergency and public pleas were made for blood donors to come forward.
Many of the worshippers in the mosques were supporters of the Shia Houthi fighters who control the capital, and responsibility for the carnage was claimed by Isis which regards all Shia as heretics – though it was impossible to immediately verify this and some analysts were sceptical.
The final death toll was uncertain last night, with sources giving varying accounts, at least one putting it at 137 with a further 350 people injured. But the authorities warned that with so many of the wounded suffering critical injuries the toll is sure to rise.
After the blasts the wounded were loaded on the back of pick-up trucks and were taken to hospitals where, as they waited for treatment, they lay side by side with the dead.
Among the dead was, according to Al Jazeera and Houthi-owned television, the imam of the Badr mosque, the prominent Houthi cleric al-Murtada bin Zayd al-Mahatwari.
Two senior Houthi leaders, both members of the Zaidi Shia sect and named as Taha al-Mutawakkil and Khalid Madani, were reported to have been seriously wounded.
“Dozens of people have been injured or killed. We will understand the exact numbers of [the] dead and wounded soon. These are two very central and commonly used mosques,” the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post newspaper, Hakim Almasmari, told reporters.
