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Added on the 17/02/2023 16:50:26 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Armed police stand guard after a group of gunmen attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi. IMAGES
A roadside bomb killed at least five police officers deployed to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, according to officials. A senior government official in Bajaur district says at least 20 others were wounded. IMAGES
In Cherbourg, Normandy, twenty years after the tragedy, dozens of people have come to pay their respects to the 11 employees and subcontractors of the ex-Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN, now Naval Group), who lost their lives in an attack in Karachi. 15 people died on May 8, 2002 in the explosion of the bus that was taking the employees of the DCN and its subcontractors from their hotel to the construction site of a submarine sold to Pakistan by DCN. IMAGES
Israeli police officers and military secure the site where three people where killed in what police described as a shooting attack near the Allenby Crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan. The deadly shooting at the Allenby Bridge Crossing, also known as King Hussein Crossing, comes amid surging violence in the West Bank, with major Israeli military raids and attacks by Palestinians. IMAGES
Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in "coordinated" attacks in southwestern Pakistan that largely targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said. In one of the attacks, dozens of militants stopped vehicles travelling on a highway through Balochistan province and shot 23 people dead -- one of the worst shootings in the region in the past several years. IMAGES