Overview of today’s terrorism news.
#Iraq#Mosul – Iraqi special forces captain, Ahmed Jassim Muhammad, has been killed by#IS, west of Mosul#Belgium – ‘Nobody should have to suffer this much’, interview with a#BrusselsAttacks victim still in hospital#Somalia#Qoryooley – Ongoing#Alshabaab attack on army base#Iraq#Mosul – Security forces discover an#IS prison in Central Mosul#Cameroon#Soueram – 3#BokoHaram members killed in an attack on army positions.#Belgium#Brussels#St Gillis – Explosion and fire in apartment building. 2 injured Cause of the explosion not known yet
** Some metro lines are interrupted
** Gas explosion, not terror related#Afghanistan – Afghan#Taliban are establishing Military Bases: Police Chief#Belgium#Brussels#St Gillis – Explosion and fire in apartment building. 2 injured Cause of the explosion not known yet#Afghanistan#Kot – 16#IS militants killed in Afghan commandos operation in#Nangarhar#Iraq#Tamim –#IS claims an IED attack on police officers. 2 killed, 3 injured#Iraq#Mosul –#IS claims it’s snipers killed 6 Iraqi soldiers in#Risalah and#Nablus.#France#Stains – Man opens fire on 3 police officers, 1 injured. Allegedly tried to escape a road control
** It is believed the#Orly attacker was checked in Garges-lès-Gonesse @ 7.30 am. Shots fired. He fled the scene#France#Lyon – Reports emerging of police operation @ Lyon airport due to a suspicious package.
** Now cleared , airport back to normal
- BREAKING –
#France#Paris – Shooting @#Orly airport. Evacuation. Allegedly hostage situation ongoing
** Large police operation underway. Unconfirmed reports say the shots were aimed @ police officers, but to be confirmed
** UNCONFIRMED: A man allegedly tried to grab a soldier’s arm @ #Orly airport. Man on the ground
** Police operation @ #Orly airport confirmed. Please follow police orders!
** It is believed the soldier has fired @ the attacker @ #Orly airport
** Police operation still ongoing @ #Orly airport. 1 man in custody
** #RAID on scene @ #Orly airport
** Police advise to avoid #Orly airport for the moment
** Attacker @ #Orly airport has been shot dead: official
** Interior Minister on his way to #Orly airport
** Arriving aircrafts are kept away from the terminals @ #Orly airport. Passengers to stay in the airplanes
** #RAID operation ongoing. Bomb squad on scene @ #Orly airport
** After taking away the soldier’s weapon, the attacker @ #Orly airport hid in a shop before being shot
** Combing operation @ #Orly airport for possible accomplices or explosives. That doesn’t mean there are any!
** Some arriving flights for #Orly airport are being diverted to #CDG.
** Metro #Orlyval suspended due to situation @ #Orly airport.
** Minister of Defense also on his way to #Orly airport
** #RAID intervention @ #Orly ongoing
** The attack @ #Orly happened at the Turkish Airlines counter, not far from a flight to #TelAviv: Le Parisian
** Interior Minister asks not to go to #Orly airport for the time being
** Attacker held soldier hostage @ #Orly. Negotiations didn’t work, was shot subsequently: witness to BFMTV, to be confirmed
** 3,000 people evacuated @ #Orly west. Police operation still ongoing @ Orly south
** Emergency crews are still arriving @ #Orly airport
** Orly airport will be entirely searched by security forces
** #SAIP alert for #Orly has finally been launched
** Bomb squad operations ended. No explosives found @ #Orly
** Anti-terror prosecutor will be leading the investigation of the attack @ #Orly airport
** Man shot dead @ #Orly also shot officer at traffic stop earlier and then stole a woman’s car at gunpoint: MoI
** #Orly attacker was known to police and intelligence services. He was known for armed robbery
** During the state of emergency in France, his house has been searched. (Probably was #FichéJ.)
** The father and the brother of the #Orly attacker have been arrested
** President @fhollande salutes the courage and efficiency of the soldiers and police officers @ #Orly airport.
** The attacker at #Orly airport allegedly is a 39-year-old
** #Orly‘s west terminal has reopened. Authorities however ask not to come to the airport at this point
** The house of the #Orly shooter in Garges-lès-Gonesse is now being searched
** The father and the brother of the #Orly shooter allegedly went to the police station in Vitry-sur-Seine themselves. They told police they got a text message from the #Orly shooter saying “I did something stupid, I shot at police officers”
** Incoming flights for #Orly are now allowed again to land
** Full name of the #Orly attacker: Ziyed Ben Belgacem
** The police officer shot by the #Orly attacker in #Stains, before he hijacked a car to drive to Orly, is in good condition
** South Terminal Air traffic activities resuming around 3pm. Check flight info w/ your airline before coming to the airport
** A total of 29 airplanes had to be diverted to other airports due to the Orly shooting incident
** Some facts about the #Orly shooter: – Ziyed Ben Belgacem, 39-y-o – 44 mentions in police files – 9 convictions
** The #Orly shooter was also known to domestic intelligence
** #Orly airport attacker told soldiers ‘I’m here to die for Allah’: prosecutor
** Cousin of #Orly airport attacker has been detained: prosecutor
** #Orly attacker Ziyed Ben Belgacem was born 14/02/1978 in Paris. Detected as radicalized during a stay in prison in 2011
** #Orly attacker was carrying: Koran, lighter, cigarettes & € 750 cash. Cocaine found at his house during search: prosecutor
#Turkey#Samsun – Court remands two Iraqis for#IS links, eight others released under judicial control#Iraq#AlDulab –#IS attack on several houses of security forces members. Casualties unclear. Curfew in place#Lebanon#Beirut – 18 (mostly Syrians) charged with transferring millions of dollars to#IS in#Syria and#Iraq#Pakistan#DeraGhaziKhan – 2 terrorist killed:#Punjab Rangers spokesman#Bangladesh#Dhaka – Attack on RAB checkpoint foiled. Attacker on a motorcycle with a bag of explosives was shot dead on scene
** This comes after another attack on a RAB base, also in Dhaka, yesterday.#World – Acc to@coalition, the flow of FTFs to#IS-held areas is the lowest since 2014
** Note that returning FTFs become a bigger concern every day#Belgium#Brussels – “A man with a bomb can still easily walk in”: airport police- #Pakistan
#TTPJA released a picture of the 2 suicide bombers of the attack on the army training camp in#Minchinai,#Shabqadar
#India#AgraCantt – Twin explosions near Agra-Cantt Railway Station, no casualties reported so far
** Note the#TajMahal is not even 6 km away.#IS threatened with attacks on the monument less than 48 hours ago.
** 1st explosion took place near a civilian house. 2nd on near train track 5, in a garbage disposal
** Police are conducting an investigation in wake of the recent threats. No major damage reported so far#Pakistan#Karachi – 4 facilitators of#Sehwan blast arrested
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