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Nigeria students killed in college attack
Dozens of students gunned down by suspected Islamic militants in early morning attack similar to assaults on schools 40km away
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Police truck bombed by Boko Haram in Damaturu, Yobe state, Nigeria. An early morning attack on a college 40km away has killed as many as 50 students. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images
Suspected Islamic militants have gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in north-eastern Nigeria.
Molima Idi Mato, provost of the Yobe state College of Agriculture said the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack at about 1am on Sunday in rural Gujba.
The college is about 40km (25 miles) from the scene of similar school attacks around Damaturu town.
He said security forces are still recovering bodies so he could not give an exact death toll. He said about 1,000 students have fled.
North-eastern Nigeria is in a military state of emergency against an uprising by Boko Haram militants who have killed hundreds of civilians in their quest for an Islamic state.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/29/pakistan-bomb-blast-peshawar
Pakistan: deadly bomb blast kills dozens in Peshawar
Thirty-one people killed and scores wounded in explosion in north-western frontier city week after church bombing
The wreckage of a bus after an explosion on Friday in Peshawar in which 17 died: Sunday’s blast took place outside a police station in an area crowded with shoppers. Photograph: Xinhua/Landov/ Barcroft Media/
A bomb blast in the north-western Pakistan city of Peshawar has killed 31 people and wounded 70, a week after a bombing at a church in the frontier city killed scores, police and hospital authorities said.
Islamist violence has been on the rise in Pakistan in recent months, undermining the efforts of the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to tame the insurgency by launching peace talks with the Taliban.
Sunday's blast took place outside a police station in Peshawar in an area crowded with shops and families. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The casualties were confirmed by police and by Arshad Javed, a doctor at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar.
It follows an attack by a Taliban faction on Peshawar's Anglican church last Sunday that killed more than 80 people, the deadliest attack on Christians in predominantly Muslim Pakistan.
The Taliban have repeatedly rejected Pakistan's constitution and have called for the full implementation of Islamic law and for war with India.
Sharif is due to meet his Indian counterpart ,Manmohan Singh, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly later on Sunday, only hours after Singh described Pakistan as the "epicentre of terrorism in our region".
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Afghans rally to demand withdrawal of US-led forces
Afghans shout slogans during an anti-US demonstration in Nangarhar Province. (File photo)
Hundreds of anti-US protesters rallied in Kabul on Sunday to condemn the presence of US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
The protesters voiced their anger at US soldiers they accuse of killing Afghan civilians.
Demonstrators also expressed opposition to talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group. They also held the Taliban responsible for the death of Afghan civilians.
On September 27, a dozen people died in three separate US-led drone attacks in Wardak, Kandahar, and Paktia.
Last week, thousands of Afghans held an anti-US protest over the killing of two civilians by US-led forces in Zabul.
In August, hundreds of protesters held a demonstration in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar, condemning nighttime operations by the US forces.
Civilian deaths during US-led airstrikes and operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past decade have made Afghans increasingly outraged.
Although Washington says the airstrikes target members of the Taliban, reports on the ground show many civilians have fallen victim to the attacks.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, which was conducted as part of the so-called war on terror, removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity remains in the country despite the presence of foreign forces.
Afghan investigators have recently found substantial proof that American Special Forces have also been involved in the kidnapping, torturing and killing of Afghan civilians across the war-torn country over the past years.
The protesters voiced their anger at US soldiers they accuse of killing Afghan civilians.
Demonstrators also expressed opposition to talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group. They also held the Taliban responsible for the death of Afghan civilians.
On September 27, a dozen people died in three separate US-led drone attacks in Wardak, Kandahar, and Paktia.
Last week, thousands of Afghans held an anti-US protest over the killing of two civilians by US-led forces in Zabul.
In August, hundreds of protesters held a demonstration in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar, condemning nighttime operations by the US forces.
Civilian deaths during US-led airstrikes and operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past decade have made Afghans increasingly outraged.
Although Washington says the airstrikes target members of the Taliban, reports on the ground show many civilians have fallen victim to the attacks.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, which was conducted as part of the so-called war on terror, removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity remains in the country despite the presence of foreign forces.
Afghan investigators have recently found substantial proof that American Special Forces have also been involved in the kidnapping, torturing and killing of Afghan civilians across the war-torn country over the past years.
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