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Punjab, one of India’s least forested States, is challenging the perception that wildlife crimes are confined to dense jungles and protected areas. An analysis of the recorded incidents revealed that wildlife crimes were concentrated in the Shivalik foothills and within the districts of Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Rupnagar, SAS Nagar, and Tarn Taran.
At least 23 people were killed in a series of suspected suicide bombings, police in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri said on Tuesday. Daso said 23 people had been killed, while 108 others "sustained varying degrees of injuries."
At least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces struck a secondary school and a health care centre. The war-tracking Sudan Doctors Network reported the strike first, saying those killed included two teachers and a health care worker.
At least 65 Nigerian soldiers have been killed in jihadist raids across the country’s north-east in the last two weeks, as the west African state battles to contain one of the world’s deadliest terror groups. Nigerian daily the Punch reported that about 40 soldiers were killed in total in these attacks.
