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A 13 year old Israeli was killed by a local Palestinian in the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin. A 7 year old was also injured and is being treated for serious wounds. Islamic Jihad and Imad Mughniyeh have claimed responsibility. |
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Apr 05 |
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A suicide bomber detonates explosives at a mosque during prayer, killing 22 civilians and injuring more than 50. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. |
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Apr 06 |
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Two bomb blasts kill 7 and injure 60 a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was expected to visit. Police accuse United Liberation Front of coordinating the attacks. |
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Apr 06 |
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6 bomb attacks kill 36 people and injure 110 in Shiite neighborhoods. US forces believe Al Qaeda was responsible, stating "the nature of the targets was consistent with past attacks." |
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Apr 06 |
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7 Iraqi soldiers were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives. |
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Apr 07 |
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A car bomb detonated in Baghdad near a Shite religious shrine killing eight people and injuring at least fourteen people. This attacks comes one day after six car bombs in Baghdad that attempted to reignite Shite-Sunni communal tensions. |
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Apr 09 |
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Two police cars were seriously damaged after a bomb exploded near the two vehicles in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Four police officers and a child were killed and two police officers were wounded. |
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Apr 10 |
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A suicide truck bomb kills 5 US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen. 1 US soldier and 17 Iraqi's were injured in the blast. This is the largest loss of life in a single day for American forces in Iraq for 2009. |
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Apr 10 |
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Black clothed militants opened fire on a train as it was stopped at a local train station. One train attendent was shot and killed and three others were injured in the attack before the engineer was able to pull away from the station ensuring the attackers couldn't kill or injure anyone else. |
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Apr 11 |
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A suicide bomber exploded after getting into the middle of a crowd of Sunni militamen allied with the U.S military in Iraq. Nine people were killed and another thirty-one were injured in the explosion |
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Apr 14 |
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A female Canadian soldier was killed and four other Canadians wounded when a roadside bomb hit their troop carrier in Shah Wali Kot district north of Kandahar. |
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Apr 15 |
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A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives near a Iraqi police unit that had been assigned to protect an oil installation. Eleven people were killed in the explosion and twenty-three others wounded. |
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Apr 16 |
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A suicide bomber in an army uniform detonated his explosives in the middle of a military parade in Anbar province killing sixteen soldiers and injuring at least fifty people. |
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Apr 18 |
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Taliban militants are being blamed for a suicide explosion targetting a military checkpoint that killed 25 Pakistani soldiers and 2 civilians and injured at least sixty-five people, including sixty-two soldiers. The explosion occured in north-western Pakistan near the town of Hangu |
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Apr 20 |
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A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a joint U.S-Iraqi meeting in Baquba resulting in four Iraqi's being killed, two police officers, and twenty people being wounded in the attack including eight U.S soldiers. |
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Apr 23 |
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A suicide bomber targetted Shite pilgrims from Iran killing forty people, all but two Iranian, and injuring at least sixty-eight people. Al Qaeda in Iraq is being blamed for this blast and the blast in Central Baghdad. |
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Apr 23 |
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A suicide bomber exploded in a Shite area of Baghdad where Iraqi government officials were handing out relief supplies to refugees who had left their neighborhoods after the fall of Saddam Hussein because of sectarian violence. Twenty-two people were killed and another thrity-five injured. |
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Apr 24 |
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to the Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in the Kadhimiya neighborhood. Many of the casualties were Iranian pilgrims. |
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