9 arrested after deadly Tanzanian church bombing

Tanzania has arrested three more people over a deadly church bombing, bringing to nine the number of suspects detained, including several Saudis, President Jakaya Kikwete said Tuesday.

Tanzania has arrested three more people over a deadly church bombing, bringing to nine the number of suspects detained, including several Saudis, President Jakaya Kikwete said Tuesday.

A gas tanker exploded on a highway in a Mexico City suburb on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more as nearby homes and cars burst into flames.

At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack Sunday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.

Three bomb explosions killed three people including a young girl in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Saturday, police and hospital officials said, in the latest violence ahead of polls next month.

New York police stepped up security around key landmarks in the city on Monday after a double blast killed at least two people and injured 23 others at the Boston marathon, a top officer said.

KANO, Nigeria—A series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in Nigeria’s second city of Kano killed at least 20 people on Monday, but the toll was expected to rise, a rescue official and a security source told AFP. Initial reports indicated that two suicide bombers rammed a car packed with explosives into a [...]
Two workers were hurt after one of them struck, while digging a hole, an improvised explosive device (IED) buried in the ground on the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City.

A suicide attack on a joint Afghan-NATO foot patrol on Monday killed at least 14 people, including three NATO troops and an interpreter, officials said.

A car bomb exploded near a mosque in the southern outskirts of Damascus, killing 15 people, state media reported on Sunday.

All 31 people aboard an airplane carrying an “official delegation” to Sudan’s war-torn South Kordofan state for a function marking the Muslim Eid holiday were killed on Sunday, an aviation official said.
A grenade explosion inside a restaurant in Quiapo, Manila, late Wednesday night injured nine people, including two teenagers.

More than 40 people were killed and 170 wounded in two powerful blasts that rocked the Syrian capital during morning rush hour on Thursday, state television reported.
A dispute between two groups, which was initially not named, could have triggered Saturday evening’s grenade attack that killed two people (not three as earlier reported) and wounded 24 others here, the police said yesterday.