Unknown gunmen kidnap four Sudanese government drivers of the state water corporation in Um Tajok, Darfur and steal a drilling rig. It is not known if the kidnapped persons and drilling rig are returned.
On Thursday, in the town of al-Qaim in Iraq’s Anbar province, a driver and two civilians are wounded and a water tanker truck is damaged when unidentified militants detonate an improvised explosive device targeting a water tanker. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
At the Hassa Hissa camp near Zalinjay, Gharb Darfur, Sudan, ten assailants attempt to damage a water pump outside of an internally displaced person (IDP) camp. The armed men open fire on the pump and set fire to the pump and five generators. The assailants fight with occupants of the camp, wounding one. No group claims responsibility, although it is widely believed the Janjaweed Militia is responsible.
In Lakaro area of Mohmand, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) militants blow up a water supply tube-well. TTP claims responsibility for the attack saying the tube-well is used for provision of drinking water to Security Forces.
Assailants set fire to two water tanker trucks in Muqur, Badghis, Afghanistan, killing one driver, wounding two others and destroying the two trucks. No group claims responsibility, although the Taliban is widely believed to be responsible.
At night in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines, more than 30 armed men detonate an improvised explosive device at the electric transformer of Malago Pump House owned by the Victorias Milling Company sugar refinery before setting it on fire. The damage is initially placed at P400,000 ($9,246 USD). No casualties are reported. New People’s Army militants claim responsibility.
In the Abu Ghurayb neighborhood of Baghdad city, Baghdad province Iraq, two government employees are killed and another is wounded when an improvised explosive device detonates at a potable water plant. The amount of damage from the attack is unknown. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
An improvised explosive device attached to a water tanker in the al-Mahawii district of the Babel province explodes, wounding the driver. The blast causes severe damage to the tanker. No one claims responsibility for the attack.
On an evening in January, two unknown gunmen riding a motorbike fire upon the driver of a water tanker in Hariana Colony, Karachi, Pakistan. The driver, Noor Shah, is killed and the tanker rams into a moving auto-rickshaw with four people on board. Eight-year-old Unair dies and his younger brother is wounded. Both attackers escape. No group claims responsibility.
On Thursday, in a rural area of the municipality of Cajibio, Cauca, Colombia, Army troops from the 29th Brigade locate and safely defuse three cylinder bombs suspected to be planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) 6th Front. According to authorities, the explosives were going to be used against the town’s aqueduct. No casualties or damages are reported and no group claims responsibility for the attempted bombing attack.