Two explosive devices placed in a well are discovered and defused in Nar Raza Khan village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claims responsibility for the incident.
Assailants bomb a government water tank in the Aka Khel area of Bara tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There are no reported casualties; however, the water tank is destroyed in the blast. No group claims responsibility for the incident; however, police arrest one individual in connection with the attack.
In Mogahataburu village in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants blow up a water pump, causing an unknown amount of property damage but resulting in no casualties. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, it is believed the bombing is to protest the ongoing operation against militants in Saranda forest. No group claims responsibility, but it is suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants are responsible.
On Friday, in Doog village in South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unidentified militants blow up a tube-well, resulting in no casualties and causing an unknown amount of property damage. No group claims responsibility for the attack.
Sometime during the night between December 16 and December 17, 2011, a water tank is damaged by a homemade bomb in the area of Mandeo in the district of Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. No deaths or injuries occur. No claim of responsibility is reported.
Suspected terrorists shoot and kill a water tanker driver and his assistant in Dherdoni who supply water to security forces near the Afghan border in North Waziristan, Pakistan. No group claims responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban is blamed.
An explosion damages a water pipeline that supplies water to parts of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, and surrounding suburbs. Tens of thousands of homes are without potable water as a consequence. No group claims responsibility but the act of sabotage occurs shortly after the Sri Lankan government reinvokes anti-terrorism legislation.
Unidentified persons detonate a socket bomb in front of the drinking water office in Tripureshwor. No casualties or damage are reported, and no group claims responsibility.
At Kachhi canal project in Lund Nullah near Sui, Balochistan Province, Pakistan, unknown assailants detonate an explosive device destroying a tube well. No casualties or motive are reported. No group claims responsibility.
Unknown militants fire mortars at an aid agency’s water tanker, then kill the driver and steal his tanker in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan. No property damage is reported and no one claims responsibility for the incident.