Saturday

May 21, 2016

Armed conflicts and attacks

Attacks on secularists in Bangladesh

A homeopathic doctor is hacked to death in Bangladesh. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claim responsibility. (Reuters) (CNN)

War in Afghanistan

Six police officers are killed in an insider attack in Uruzgan province. (The New York Times)

A suicide bomber attacks a NATO convoy in Parwan province, wounding two civilians. (Stripes) (VOA News)

The United States kills Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour in an air strike along the Afghan Pakistan border near the town of Ahmad Wal. (Fox News) (CNN) (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

At least 37 people have been killed and 22 injured in a bus crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (ABC News)

Cyclone Roanu

At least 21 are killed and more than 500,000 are displaced by cyclone Roanu in Bangladesh. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera) (The Daily Star)

The toll from landslides and heavy flooding in Sri Lanka rises to at least 73. (The Guardian) (bd24new.com) (Washington Post) (Press Trust of India via Business Standard)