Three BSF men killed in Naxal attack in Odisha.

Three BSF men killed in Naxal attack in Odisha.

KORAPUT | ODISHA | 27 Aug 2013 ::  At least three Border Security Force personnel were killed and two injured when Naxals blew up their vehicle in an IED blast in Odisha's Koraput district. 

A convoy of three BSF vehicles carrying 18 personnel was ambushed when it was travelling from Patangi to Sunki in the district at around 0930 AM during an official movement, sources said. 

The Improvised Explosive Device (IED), embedded in the road, exploded as the first vehicle in the convoy crossed the area, resulting in the death of three troopers. 

Two injured personnel have been rushed to the nearby hospital in Sunki while a gunfight was on at the blast site when the reports last came in. 

Additional reinforcements from state police and paramilitary force have ben rushed, the sources said. 

Koraput is about 363 kms from state capital Bhubaneshwar.(Courtesy:The Economic Times)

Four schoolgirls killed in Taliban IED blast.

Tragedy ... four young girls
 were killed by a Taliban IED

AT least four young girls have been killed by a Taliban roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

The girls, said to be aged between seven and 12, were attending a wedding in 

Helmand province and had gone to collect water when they were blown up by an IED.

Civilian casualties in the south of the war-torn country have increased recently due to the growing use of improvised explosives by insurgents.

Elsewhere the most senior female police officer in the province has been shot dead.

Lieutenant Islam Bibi, 37, who had come under heavy criticism - including death threats from her own brother - was gunned down as she left her home this morning.

The mum-of-three's long struggle to work outside the home was typical of many women in conservative, rural areas of Afghanistan.

Omar Zwaak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand, said Lt Bibi had been attacked as she rode on a motorbike in Lashkar Gah.

He said: “She was seriously injured and died of injuries later in the emergency ward in hospital.”(Courtesy:The Sun News)