
Saturday, October 24
In Jordan six people lost their life at a funeral ceremony, floods in Urmia.
Jordan: armed attack at the funeral ceremony
Kamîran: Ronahî, where people gather to say farewell, today there is a very heavy scene.
Ronahî: Yes. Jordan's General Security Directorate announced that in the governorate of Karak, at the Church of Hamoud during the burial ceremony of a deceased person, gunfire was directed at those present.
Ronahî: In this attack six people lost their life and twenty-eight people were injured.
Ronahî: According to local media sources, the gunmen got out of a vehicle and opened fire. A Jordanian television channel also said the attackers are four people and come from a takfiri background. Yet their identities have still not been revealed, and this number, according to the security agencies, is what has been reported so far.
Kamîran: So the number of attackers and their identities still come only from media sources, not from an official statement.
Gaza: UNICEF warns about the deaths of children
Ronahî: From Gaza, which we also spoke about yesterday, today there is a broader number. The United Nations Children's Fund announced that since the ceasefire was declared, three hundred fifty-one children have lost their life in Gaza.
Kamîran: Three hundred fifty-one children, and this is during the ceasefire period, not during the time of fighting.
Ronahî: That is correct. The organisation called on Israel to take measures for the protection of children. It also stated that the physical and psychological injuries of children have long-term consequences.
Flooding in Urmia
Kamîran: We move from Gaza to eastern Kurdistan, where this time it was not fighting but rain that caused the losses.
Ronahî: In the city of Urmia, heavy rain last night caused flooding. During the night two people lost their life and six people were injured.
Ronahî: In the morning the body of one more person was found and the number of people who lost their life reached three. According to reports two people are still missing and search operations continue.
Zonguldak: explosion in the coal mine
Ronahî: In northern Turkey as well, mine workers became victims of an explosion. On Friday in the town of Gelik in the district of Kilimli in the province of Zonguldak, methane gas exploded underground in a private coal mine.
Ronahî: Two workers lost their life, five workers were also injured. The injured were taken to hospitals after first aid.
Kamîran: In this way today in two separate incidents, in Urmia and in Zonguldak, five people lost their life.
ISIS: investigation of Rankus and the attack in Hawija
Kamîran: The Rankus case that we mentioned yesterday has taken a new step today.
Ronahî: Syria's Interior Ministry announced that it will disclose the results of the investigation into the security operation in the town of Rankus in the Qalamoun region. According to the ministry, the operation targeted a cell affiliated with ISIS. It also said that reactions against the operation are being followed carefully.
Kamîran: So far there is only the ministry's account, and the results of the investigation have still not been reported.
Ronahî: Yes. In Iraq as well, the Hashd al-Shaabi stated that a force from the sixty-first brigade thwarted an ISIS attack on Thursday evening in the Danadish area, north of Hawija in Kirkuk province. According to the statement, the attackers targeted a thermal camera and then withdrew.
The sixth convoy of displaced people from Serêkaniyê
Ronahî: The sixth convoy of displaced people from Serêkaniyê set out from Newroz Camp and Washukani Camp toward the villages. The convoy consists of six hundred forty families, that is four thousand fifty-four people.
Ronahî: From Newroz Camp two hundred eighty-three families departed, and from Washukani Camp three hundred fifty-nine families. These families are returning to more than fifty villages of Serêkaniyê, Zirgan and Til Temir.
Kamîran: It is a large number. More than four thousand people are returning to their homes in a single convoy.
Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners
Kamîran: And we close with a final item from the Russia and Ukraine front.
Ronahî: According to Russia's Defence Ministry and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the two countries exchanged a total of five hundred forty soldiers. Each side released two hundred seventy soldiers.
Ronahî: Moscow said its soldiers were handed over in Belarus and their medical and psychological needs were provided for.