Car Bomb Archives

Malta’s overdue struggle against corruption, crooks and imbeciles

October 19, 2017 By administrator

Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb on Monday

The murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has refocused attention on corruption and money-laundering scandals in Malta. The island that critics – including her own son – described as a “mafia state.

After the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, EU lawmakers have called on the European Commission to do more to combat money-laundering and corruption in Malta after looking the other way for too long.

Caruana Galizia was thefirst to reveal the Maltese names in the “Panama Papers,” the 11.5 million documents leaked in May 2016 that revealed how wealth was hidden and laundered across the world.

Perhaps most notably, she wrote about offshore shell companies held in Panama and elsewhere by members of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s government – as well as his wife. Many of the accusations in her widely read blog, whose last post was published less than an hour before her death on Monday, were repeated by her son Matthew Caruana Galizia in a Facebook post published on Tuesday.

“It is of little comfort for the prime minister of this country to say that he will ‘not rest’ until the perpetrators are found,” he wrote. “First he filled his office with crooks, then he filled the police with crooks and imbeciles, then he filled the courts with crooks and incompetents. If the institutions were already working, there would be no assassination to investigate – and my brothers and I would still have a mother.”

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Turkey Car bomb kills 18, injures 27 at military police station in southeastern Turkey

October 9, 2016 By administrator

Ten soldiers and eight civilians have been killed in a car bomb blast near a Gendarmerie station in the southeastern Turkish town of Semdinli, local media reported. The area has seen continued fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants.

The death toll from the car bomb blast has risen to 18, including ten military police and eight civilians, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, according to NTV. Twenty-seven others, including 11 soldiers, are said to be injured.

A vehicle was detonated outside a gendarmerie station in Semdinli earlier on Sunday, according to local broadcaster NTV. The blast took place during car searches that were being conducted at a checkpoint around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the town center.

Later in the day, Turkish General Staff said in a statement cited by Haberturk TV that eight soldiers had been killed and five injured in the blast, citing the latest casualty figures available at the time.

It is yet unclear whether the attack involved a suicide bomber or a remote-controlled detonation.

Although no organization has claimed responsibility so far, the General Staff claimed that the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) was behind the attack.

The town of Semdinli is in a mountainous area bordering both Iraq and Iran, where fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) militants has been taking place.

A wave of explosions that rocked Turkey earlier this year, killing hundreds of people, has been blamed on either Kurdish militant groups or Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

In the most recent incident, at least 30 people were killed and almost 100 injured in August, when a suicide bomber targeted a wedding ceremony in the city of Gaziantep close to the Syrian border. Authorities said that IS was the likely behind that attack.

The deadliest terror attack in recent years took place at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in late June, when three blasts left 43 people dead and 239 injured. That terrorist attack has also been blamed on Islamic State.

Intense fighting broke out between Turkish security forces and the PKK last year following the collapse of a fragile truce that had been respected for over two years. More than 600 Turkish troops and thousands of Kurdish militants have been killed since then, according to Turkish media.

Number of Wounded in Car Bomb Attack in Eastern Turkey Surpasses 70

August 17, 2016 By administrator

The number of wounded in the car bomb attack in Turkey’s eastern Van province has gone up to 71, local media report.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier, it was reported that a blast occurred near a police station in Van at around 23:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring 40 others.

The Vatan newspaper reported that a total of 71 people, including 17 police officers, were wounded in the explosion. Three of the injured people are in critical condition. The dead include one child.

A special operation, involving air support, was launched to capture the perpetrators of the deadly act. One suspect has reportedly been detained, but the operation continues.

Earlier this week, a car bomb explosion in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir Province, near a municipal traffic department, killed six people.

Tensions in Turkey escalated in July 2015, after 33 Kurdish activists were killed in a suicide blast in Suruc and two Turkish policemen were later murdered by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. Ankara subsequently launched a military campaign against the PKK which it considers a terrorist organization.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the Wednesday explosion in Van, however, according to some local media reports, PKK is behind the deadly act.

Southeast Turkey Car Bomb Injures 2, Sets Off Fires – Reports

November 1, 2015 By administrator

A car bomb blast injured two residents of the southeast Turkish province of Mardin, local media reported Sunday.
ANKARA (Sputnik) – The blast occurred at approximately 18:30 GMT in the majority Kurdish city of Nusaybin, on the Syrian border to the south, according to CNN Turk.
The explosion of a vehicle parked in a residential neighborhood smashed the windows nearby buildings and reportedly set off a fire at a nearby shopping center.

The injured were taken to hospitals, while fire brigades continue battling the flames. Police are conducting an investigation into the blast.