Tag: Shootout

One person was reportedly killed in a shoot-out near busy Kakudikhai square near the historic Emar Mutt in Puri on Tuesday.

Berhampur: Mystery surrounding the murder of two youth who were gunned down by unknown assailants in Berhampur town, is slowly unfolding after identification of one of the deceased and the motive behind the crime. According to sources, one of the deceased has been identified as Lalu Yadav, hailing from Bihar. Row over sharing of loot […]

Cairo: At least ten people were killed in a shootout outside a church here on Friday, state media reported. “The security forces thwarted an attack on Mar Mina Church in the Helwan district,” said an Interior Ministry statement. The Health Ministry said the ten killed include one attacker and one policeman, who are Muslims, and […]

Lucknow: Three persons were killed and a dozen injured in a shootout between two groups over a land dispute in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, following which angry locals blocked a highway, police said. The deceased were Satya Prakash, 19, Ram Pradesh, 25, and Inderjeet, 22. The injured were admitted to a district hospital, […]

Berlin: The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is looking to revolutionise penalty shootouts to make them fairer. Instead of alternating the spot kicks all the way through, the new system will be similar to a tie-break in tennis. The new mode is called “ABBA” whereby team A takes the first penalty followed by team […]

Guadalajara (Mexico): A police officer and two suspects were killed in a shootout in the Mexico’s Tlajomulco, an official has said. The confrontation began on Friday after the police on a routine patrol spotted “suspicious-looking people” around a residence used as a safe house by organized crime, the Jalisco state Attorney General Gerardo Octavio Solis […]

Bhubaneswar: Three bike-borne miscreants allegedly opened fire at a man in Kalinga Vihar K-4 area under the Tomando police limits in the Capital City on Friday morning. The man, whose identity was not disclosed, had a providential escape as all the three bullets fired at him from the moving motorcycle missed target. The miscreants who […]