Gun violence in New Orleans "Bunny Friend" park while shooting a music video

Another case of gun violence has happened in New Orleans in which at least sixteen people have been taken to hospital after a mass shooting at a playground the "Bunny Friend" park in New Orleans. At the time of the incident, there were as many as 500 people present at the venue. The occasion was the filming of a music video.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 23 November 2015.

As informed by a spokesman for New Orleans Police Department, officers had been on their way to the playground to break up a large crowd when gunfire erupted. It was between two groups who had been fighting.
There were 16 casualties and the victims have been shifted to hospital and have either suffered a "direct gunshot wound" or a graze wound. The full extent of their injuries is yet to be determined but the saving grace was that no one was killed in the shooting.
Witnesses have indicated that there were at least two gunmen involved in firing into the crowd - and one of the gunmen had a silver machine gun.

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Motorcycle riding gunmen attack bus in Karachi, 47 dead, 24 injured

Six unidentified motorcycle riding gunmen attacked a bus in Karachi and left behind at least 47 dead and 24 injured as reported in tribune.com.pk dated 13 May 2015.
The bus belonged to the Ismaili community in Karachi’s Safora Chowrangi area near Dow Medical College. As per initial reports it has been revealed that the motorcyclists used 9mm pistols in the attack.
There weew many women and children in the bus and the gunmen attacked it from all sides.

Witnesses have indicated that although the capacity of the bus was 52, it was overloaded and dozens of people were trying to board it. Majority of them belonged to the Ismaili community.
It seems the assailants also got onto the bus to attack passengers who were inside the bus and left leaflets that had militant content.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but, Taliban splinter groups are known to have bombed several mosques of religious minorities.
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#Taliban #mazaresharif #Afghanistan #Balkh Taliban gunmen, dressed in military uniforms, stormed the office of the attorney general in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif and killed at least six people and injured 63 as reported in bbc.com dated 9 April 2015.
As revealed by witnesses, a group of five attackers enter the office, followed by heavy gunfire and several explosions. The dead included a local police chief and two officers while another 26 officials of the government were among the injured. A spokesman for the Taliban has confirmed that it carried out the attack.

It was a siege that lasted for six hours and all five gunmen were killed by the Afghan National Security Forces which had surrounded the area. The police rescued the attorney general from his office, which is just 200m (650ft) from the office of the governor of Balkh province.
The chief doctor at the Balkh Provincial Hospital has confirmed the number of those dead and injured as 6 and 63 respectively.
The Taliban has been targeting Afghanistan's legal system continuously. In June 2013, it had detonated a car bomb in front of the compound of Afghanistan's Supreme Court in which 17 were killed and another 39 were wounded.

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#Bamako #Mali #LaTerrasse #hippodrome #FrancoisHollande Militants carried out a machine-gun and grenade attack on a nightclub in Mali's capital, Bamako, killing five people. The dead are a French national who was shot dead at La Terrasse bar. In addition, two Malian men were killed and the gunmen fled the scene. Moreover, one Belgian man died when a grenade was thrown at his car in a nearby street while a third European died in hospital.
French soldiers arrived post-haste at the scene of the attack on the first-floor nightclub and have confirmed that the man killed at the bar, in the Hippodrome area of the capital popular with expatriates, was a French national. Out of the Malian victims, one is believed to have been a police officer, and the other a security guard.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 7 March 2015.
The attackers had shouted slogans in the name of God and, as observers say, such an attack has not happened in Bamako till date.
The persons responsible for the attack are not known but al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants have been fighting the Malian army in the north of the country for several years and troops from France and African countries have intervened in the past to check the advance of al-Qaeda south on Bamako.
French President Francois Hollande has condemned the attack and termed it as "cowardly". The foreign minister of France, Laurent Fabius, has added that such actions would strengthen the resolve of France to fight all sorts of terrorism.

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