9 killed in housefire in NW Pakistan

STORY: 9 killed in housefire in NW Pakistan SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 24, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of housefire 2. various of the rescue efforts STORYLINE: At least nine people were killed in a housefire in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. The incident happened in Abbottabad district, where the house caved in, following the fire, burying all nine family members under the rubbles, the police told media, adding that nine bodies have been retrieved from the debris. The fire erupted due to a short circuit, swiftly engulfing the whole house before the residents could manage to contain it, the police said. The bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for the identification process, the police added. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Islamabad. (XHTV)

2 years after bin Laden's killing

2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children gather around a spring at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

2 years after bin Laden's killing

2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Children play at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand, in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

2 years after bin Laden's killing

2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play in front of a wall with graffiti reading "WAKE UP MUSLIMS," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

2 years after bin Laden's killing

2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A man plows a field within a site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, near Pakistan's capital Islamabad, on April 29, 2013. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

2 years after bin Laden's killing

2 years after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy passes by a wall with graffiti reading "Osama is a martyr," in Abbottabad near Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 29, 2013. The wall is part of what remains of the hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. Navy Seals there on May 2, 2011.

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - People pass the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in a house that used to stand there.

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play cricket at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy plays at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011.

Street leading to bin Laden's compound

Street leading to bin Laden's compound

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Police officers stand at the entrance of a street leading to a compound where Osama bin Laden had lived on May 2, 2011. The leader of the al-Qaida international terrorist network was killed by U.S. commandos in the predawn hours of the same day during a raid on the compound in the city of Abbottabad, 50 kilometers northeast of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.

Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike

STORY: Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Biden addressing the nation 2. various of the White House STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. "I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield," Biden said in live remarks from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House, "There were no civilian casualties." Al-Zawahiri became head of al-Qaeda in 2011 after its longtime leader, Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan during a raid. Biden's announcement came nearly a year after the U.S. military completed a withdrawal from Afghanistan that it invaded in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks carried out by al-Qaeda operatives against targets on American soil, which killed nearly 3,000 peop

Street leading to bin Laden's compound

Street leading to bin Laden's compound

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Police officers stand at the entrance of a street leading to a compound where Osama bin Laden had lived on May 2, 2011. The leader of the al-Qaida international terrorist network was killed by U.S. commandos in the predawn hours of the same day during a raid on the compound in the city of Abbottabad, 50 kilometers northeast of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. (Kyodo)

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - A boy plays at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011. (Kyodo)

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - People pass the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to be in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in a house that used to stand there. (Kyodo)

Year after bin Laden's killing

Year after bin Laden's killing

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - Boys play cricket at the site where a hideout of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden used to stand in Abbottabad, a garrison city in northwestern Pakistan, on April 30, 2012. U.S. Navy Seals killed bin Laden there on May 2, 2011. (Kyodo)