Thursday 28 July 2016

The Human Toll of Terror

The Human Toll of Terror

The pace and scope of the killing are dizzying. Some 300 members of families blown apart by bombs as they celebrated the end of Ramadan in Baghdad. Forty-nine dead at the Istanbul airport, 40 more in Afghanistan. Nine Italians, seven Japanese, three students at American universities and one local woman brutalized in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The bodies piled up on a bus in Somalia, at a mosque and video club in Cameroon, at a shrine in Saudi Arabia. All that carnage was in a single week — a single week of summer in what feels like an endless stream of terror attacks.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/27/world/human-toll-of-terror-attacks.html?source=Snapzu

No comments:

Post a Comment