September 11, 2023

At least one Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was martyred Monday after a blast targeted a security forces’ vehicle on Peshawar’s Warsak Road on Monday, police and rescue officials said. The explosion, according to the spokesperson of Rescue 1122, also left seven FC personnel and three civilians injured. The spokesperson added that the injured security personnel were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Source:https://www.nation.com.pk/11-Sep-2023/one-martyred-10-injured-in-peshawar-s-warsak-road-blast

KHARTOUM  –   At least 35 people have been killed after a crowded mar­ket in Sudan’s capital was hit with “explosive weapons”, a medical charity said. The Mé­decins Sans Frontières (MSF) described it as “carnage”, say­ing that more than 60 people had also been wounded in the attack. Local volunteers say a military aircraft bombarded the Qouro market in south­ern Khartoum on Sunday. Rival military factions have been fighting since April. On Sunday, MSF’s emergen­cy coordinator Marie Burton said Khartoum “has been at war for almost six months”. “But still, the volunteers and medical personnel in Bashair hospital are shocked and overwhelmed by the scale of horror that struck the city” on Sunday, she added on X, formerly Twitter. The MSF said “explosive weapons” had hit the market and that air strikes and shelling con­tinued in “another day of un­thinkable suffering and loss of life”. “We’re trying to save the lives of people whose body parts have been ripped off by the explosion. It was a carnage,” MSF added. Su­dan plunged into a civil war in April after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the commander of the para­military Rapid Support Forc­es (RSF) Gen Mohamed Ham­dan Dagalo fell out. Source:https://www.nation.com.pk/11-Sep-2023/deadly-attack-strikes-khartoum-market-leaving-dozens-dead

Morocco has announced its acceptance of offers of assistance from Spain, the UK, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates following a 7-magnitude earthquake late Friday. In a written statement Sunday, Morocco’s Interior Ministry said the country has accepted offers from the four nations to dispatch search and rescue teams. The authorities carefully assessed the necessary requirements, considering the potential consequences of coordination deficiencies in such situations following the earthquake, the statement added. The statement said the search and rescue teams entered the country on Sunday to work in coordination with Moroccan teams, and it was emphasized that offers of support from other friendly countries could be accepted based on potential needs in the field. It also expressed Morocco’s gratitude for the initiatives extended by various countries. At least 2,122 people were killed and 2,421 others were injured when a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Morocco late Friday, according to the Interior Ministry. The quake was the strongest to hit the North African country in the last century, according to Morocco’s National Geophysical Institute. Source:https://www.nation.com.pk/11-Sep-2023/morocco-accepts-offers-of-assistance-from-4-countries-following-earthquake