Aug 1: Somalia has been ranked 6th and in the list of countries most hit by terror in the second quarter of 2008, a report released by the Centre of Excellence - Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT), a Turkey based anti-terror organisation, has said.According to the report based on a worldwide research, a total of 2396 terrorist incidents occurred across the world during the said period, thereby killing a total of 4204 people and injuring 7614.
Quoting the findings of the research, the Daily Times reported that Iraq topped the list of the most-hit countries with 857 separate attacks in which 1575 people were killed and 3247 injured. 35 percent of total attacks in the world, 37 percent of total fatalities and 42 percent of total casualties sustained worldwide were recorded in Iraq, it added.
According to it, the ten countries most hit by terrorism in the second quarter of the year include Iraq with 857 terror incidents, Afghanistan with 334, Sri Lanka with 327, Pakistan with 216, India with 195, Somalia with 112, Turkey with 71, Thailand with 55, Nepal with 44, and Israel with 31 terror incidents. in somlaia Bomb hidden in trash pile kills 20 Somalis
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in somalia explosion on 2 August, which has so far killed at least 20 people. Another 45 wounded were admitted to a hospital in Mogadishu, according to hospital sources. Most of the dead and wounded were women street cleaners.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, it is suspected that Islamist militants are behind the incident.
"One of the injured women said in hospital that a young man had warned them minutes before the blast to stop working with the government," another journalist, who requested anonymity, said.
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