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The Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested five suspected terrorists, identified as Syed Suhel, Umar, Janid, Mudasir and Zahid. Arrested on July 19, the terrorist team were allegedly planning to carry out a blast in Bengaluru. Notably, all five are accused in a 2017 murder case and were in Parappana Agrahara Central Jail, where they started their terrorist activities. CCB has also seized explosive materials, said the CCB team.

Ten police personnel and a driver were killed in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday in the worst attack on security forces in the Maoist insurgency-hit central Indian state since April 2021. Furthermore, Police said an improvised explosive device (IED) was used to blow up their vehicle when the policemen were returning from an anti-Maoist operation. Visuals showed the blast left a crater at the scene of the attack.

In Balochistan, at least nine police officials were killed after a suicide blast struck the Sibi area on March 6. As per sources, the explosion occurred after a suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle into a police truck in the area. A police spokesman Mehmood Khan Notizai confirmed the attack and said, an investigation is underway and a case has been registered. Moreover, no group claimed responsibility.

In Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district, three children have been injured in an explosion near an explosion site on September 13, informed officials. The incident occurred Heff Shirmal in Shopian, when a leftover shell exploded, injuring three children playing nearby. Following the incident the children were rushed to a hospital. This has a day after an encounter between a local militant and a soldier in the same area.

Another massive explosion has been reported in a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 17. The blast happened after the evening prayers killed 20 people and left over 40 injured, confirmed local media. This is the third such explosion in the past two weeks, despite the claims of the Taliban, that the situation in Kabul, Afghanistan is under control. Notably, no terrorist outfit has claimed responsibility for the explosion.