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Militants mount deadly attack on Pakistan charity

Source country independent Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:11:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[1];

Other categories: Echo;

Suspected Islamist militants yesterday stormed an office of World Vision, a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building....

Six killed in attack on aid agency in Mansehra

Source country dailytimesPK Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:08:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Echo;

* US-based Christian aid agency’s seven staff members wounded, one goes missing * Agency suspends operations across Pakistan Staff Report ABBOTTABAD: Terrorists stormed into the office of World Vision International, a US-based Christian aid agency, in Oghi village in Mansehra on Wednesday, killing six staff members, police and a witness said....

Gunmen attack US aid agency in Pak, kill 6

Source country indiatimes Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:47:00 AM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Echo;

Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six members of staff in a hail of bullets and a bomb....

Militants storm NGO office in Mansehra

Source country NewsJang-en Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:02:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Ameer Haider Hoti[1]; Mohammad Qasim Fahim[1]; Owais Ahmed Ghani[1]; Munir Ahmad[1]; Ahmad Ghany[1];

Other categories: Echo;

MANSEHRA: Six staff members, including two women, were killed and seven others sustained injuries when over a dozen armed men wearing masks attacked t...

6 killed as gunmen storm US aid agency in Pakistan

Source country kuwaittimes Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:15:00 AM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[1]; Mohammad Salim[1];

Other categories: Echo;

Published Date: March 11, 2010 OGHI: Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a US-based Christian aid agency in Pakistan yesterday, killing six members of staff in a hail of bullets and a bomb. Nuclear-armed US ally Pakistan is battling Al-Qaeda-linked militants who have launched a string.......

Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan

Source country focusnews-en Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:11:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Munir Ahmad[1]; Mohammad Salim[1]; Frontier Province[1];

Other categories: Echo;

Quotes in this article

Munir Ahmad said: "They started shooting at us and then I heard an explosion,"

Oghi, Pakistan. Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building, Reuters reported. Nuclear-armed U.S....

Terrorists execute World Vision workers

Source country abc-au Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:28:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Tim Costello[1]; Frontier Province[1];

Other categories: Echo;

There are concerns aid groups are becoming targets for militant groups in Pakistan, after six aid workers were killed when militants struck a World Vision office in the North-West Frontier Province....

Gunmen storm World Vision office killing six

Source country NEWScomAU Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:27:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Azam Tariq[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Echo;

MILITANTS armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US based Christian charity in Pakistan overnight, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist fighters....

Gunmen storm US charity in Pakistan killing six aid workers

Source country smh Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:01:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Hamid Karzai[1]; Waqar Ahmed[1]; Frontier Province[1]; Azam Tariq[1]; Alí Zardari[1]; Asif Ali Zardari[1]; Asif Ali[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Echo;

Militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a US-based Christian charity in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six aid workers in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels....

Gunmen storm U.S. charity in Pakistan

Source country hinduonnet Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:38:00 PM CET | info [other]

OGHI, PAKISTAN: Suspected Islamist militants stormed the office of World Vision, a U.S.-based Christian aid agency, in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six staff members. Gunmen burst into the World Vision office at Oghi in Mansehra district, 80 km north of Islamabad, at 9 a.m., police and a witness said....

Charity suspends operation in Pakistan after attack kills 6

Source country cnn Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:24:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Van Velzen[2]; Frontier Province[2]; Reza Sayah[1];

Other categories: Echo;

An international aid organization temporarily suspended its operations in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province after an attack on its office Wednesday killed six employees, the group's spokesman said....

6 dead in attack on U.S. aid group in Pakistan

Source country msnbc Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:00:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Ishrat Rizvi[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Natural Disasters; Echo;

Quotes in this article

Ishrat Rizvi said: "Any single attack on any implementing partner would not result in the closure of U.N. operations in those areas, but we definitely condemn any such attack,"

Suspected militants attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan, killing six Pakistani employees....

Militants Kill 6 Aid Workers in Pakistan's Northwest

Source country voanews Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:34:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Yousaf Raza Gillani[1]; Shuja Pasha[1]; Frontier Province[1]; Ahmed Shujaa Pasha[1]; Raza Gilani[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters; Echo;

Police say assailants threw grenades and opened fire at a World Vision office in town of Oghi in Mansehra district...

Pakistan: Attack on World Vision staff brutal and senseless

Source country reliefWeb-latestUpdates Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:28:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[1];

Other categories: Echo;

World Vision today is mourning the brutal and senseless deaths of six members of our staff in the Mansehra District of Pakistan after an unprovoked attack by gunmen....

6 Employees of U.S. Charity Killed in Attack in Pakistan

Source country nytimes Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:00:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[3];

Other categories: Humanitarian Aid; Echo;

Pakistani authorities said about a dozen masked militants stormed the building at about 9:30 a.m., herded staff members into a room, and started shooting indiscriminately....

US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead

Source country msnbc Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:00:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Ishrat Rizvi[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Natural Disasters; Echo;

Quotes in this article

Ishrat Rizvi said: "Any single attack on any implementing partner would not result in the closure of U.N. operations in those areas, but we definitely condemn any such attack,"

Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police and the organization said....

US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead

Source country AP Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:46:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Miran Shah[1]; Ishrat Rizvi[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Natural Disasters; Echo;

Quotes in this article

Miran Shah said: "They left a locally made pressure cooker bomb that exploded soon after the attackers fled the scene, killing NGO people first by gunfire and then with the blast,"

Ishrat Rizvi said: "Any single attack on any implementing partner would not result in the closure of U.N. operations in those areas, but we definitely condemn any such attack,"

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police and the organization said.......

Pakistan attack kills aid workers

Source country bbc Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:35:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[1]; James East[1]; Aleem Maqbool[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack; Security; Echo;

Militants attack the office of a Western aid agency, killing six people and wounding others, the agency and police say....

Charity suspends operation in Pakistan after attack kills 6

Source country cnn Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:07:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Van Velzen[2]; Frontier Province[2]; Reza Sayah[1];

Other categories: Echo;

An international aid organization suspended its operations in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province after an attack at its office Wednesday killed six employees, the group's spokesman said....

Gunmen kill 5 aid workers

Source country Star Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:45:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Waqar Ahmed[1]; Frontier Province[1]; Azam Tariq[1];

Quotes in this article

Waqar Ahmed said: "Now they want to disturb relief work in quake-hit areas,"

"They dragged people one by one and shifted to an adjacent room and shot and killed them," says World Vision administration officer Mohammad Sajid....

(AHN) World Vision Pakistani Offices Marred By Gunfire, Six Killed

Source country AHN Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:07:00 PM CET | info [other]

Entities: Frontier Province[1];

Other categories: Echo; Terrorist Attack;

Gunmen in Pakistan detonated a bomb and attacked the offices of U.S.-based Christian charity World Vision. The Wednesday attack killed six and forced the charity to suspend its operations in Pakistan indefinitely. - (AHN)...

U.S. Aid Group Attacked in Pakistan

Source country wsj Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:00:00 PM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Echo; Natural Disasters;

Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a U.S.-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan, killing six employees and wounding several others...

Five aid workers killed in Pakistan attack

Source country guardian Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:58:00 PM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Natural Disasters;

Grenades set off in offices of World Vision humanitarian group Attackers armed with grenades bombed the offices of an international aid group in north-west Pakistan today, killing five people working for the organisation, police said. The attack targeted World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian.......

Six World Vision Aid Workers Killed In Pakistan

Source country NPRnews Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:03:00 PM CET | info [other]

Other categories: Echo; Natural Disasters;

A local police chief said 10 gunmen armed with grenades attacked the offices of the Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in a small town in the country's northwest. Four people were wounded....

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