Terrifying moment lawyer is kidnapped by gunmen who shot up his car in broad daylight in Mexico A lawyer in Jalisco, Mexico, has been missing since Wednesday morning Video recorded by a car passenger showed the moment the man was abducted at gunpoint in the Jalisco city of Tonalá The footage showed the victim’s BMW … Read more
Scores of villagers have been killed by motorbike-riding gunmen in the deadliest jihadist massacre ever to hit Niger. Government spokesman Zakaria Abdourahamane said 137 people had died in Sunday’s raids in villages in the Tahoua region, near Niger’s border with Mali. Gunmen arriving on motorbikes attacked the villages of Intazayene, Bakorat and Wistane on Sunday, … Read more
Dramatic video has emerged purportedly showing the moment a UN convoy was attacked by gunmen who killed an Italian ambassador and two others. The kidnap bid occurred on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and saw the deaths of ambassador Luca Attanasio, 43, Italian military policeman Vittorio Iacovacci, 30, and their Congolese driver, who has … Read more
Gunmen last night kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys in Nigeria, shooting one of the pupil’s dead during the raid, security sources said. Armed men raided the Government Science College at around 3am local time in Kagara, Niger state, in the country’s terror-ravaged north. Secretary to Niger state government Ibrahim Matane confirmed that ‘bandits’ wearing military uniforms had … Read more
Two Afghan women judges have been assassinated in the country’s capital in an attack that has been blamed on the Taliban. Gunmen shot dead the two unnamed judges, who worked for the Supreme Court, on Sunday in Kabul, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures have sown fear in the restive city. … Read more
Top Afghan women’s rights activist, 29, is shot dead by motorbike-riding gunmen days after she condemned wave of assassinations in the country Freshta Kohistani is the second activist to be killed in Kabul in two days Her brother was also killed in the drive-by attack which took place near her home Freshta was outspoken about women’s … Read more
A five-year-old boy was caught on camera valiantly protecting his mom when gunshots when off and several armed men broke into their home. Dramatic surveillance video of the home invasion, which happened September 30 at 10.30am, shows the moment when four men – at least three of them with guns – burst through the door … Read more
Two gunmen are shot dead by armed worshipper as they tried to rob the congregation during Sunday service at a church in South Africa Gunmen stormed into the Querencia Ministries church in Wierda Park, Centurion The men were shot by Pieter van der Westhuizen as they tried to rob worshippers He is the brother of … Read more
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has become Mexico’s fastest-rising criminal organization, with a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, from the outskirts of Mexico City, into the tourist resorts around … Read more
A 22-year-old who was killed on a football pitch by a ‘moped gunmen’ in north London has been named. Imani Allaway-Muir died in an apparently targeted attack in a children’s playground on Saturday in Islington. A post mortem is due to take place later this week. There have been no arrests. DCI Neil John, of … Read more