AP PHOTOS: Hundreds die in weekend attacks

By The Associated Press
Updated 12:30 pm, Sunday, September 22, 2013


  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. Photo: Muhammed Muheisen
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_Pakistani women grieve...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ Pakistani women touch the coffin of their relative, who was killed along with others in a suicide attack on a church. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. ( AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Photo: AP
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ Pakistani women touch...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ A Pakistani Christian man mourns over the death of his relative at the site of suicide attack on a church. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. Photo: Mohammad Sajjad
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ A Pakistani Christian...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ A Pakistani man comforts his son, who was injured in a suicide attack on a church, at a hospital. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. Photo: Muhammed Muheisen
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_ A Pakistani man...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ Relatives help a woman at the Nairobi City Mortuary after she identified the body of a victim of the Saturday attack at a mall. Kenyan authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing and injuring scores of people in the attack. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. Photo: Khalil Senosi
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ Relatives help a woman at...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ Trucks of soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces arrive after dawn outside the Westgate Mall. Kenyan authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing and injuring scores of people in the attack. Photo: Ben Curtis
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ Trucks of soldiers from the...
  • Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ A security officer helps a wounded woman outside the Westgate Mall after gunmen opened fire and threw grenades. Kenyan authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall Sunday, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing and injuring scores of people the attack. Photo: Khalil Senosi
    Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_ A security officer helps...
  • Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_Civilians who had been hiding during a gun battle hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure before being searched by armed police leading them to safety, inside the Westgate Mall. Kenyan authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall Sunday, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing and injuring scores of people in the attack. Photo: Jonathan Kalan
    Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_Civilians who had been...
  • Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_An injured person arrives in an ambulance at the Aga Khan Hospital after an attack at the Westgate Mall after gunmen opened fire and threw grenades. Kenyan authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall Sunday, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing and injuring scores of people in the attack. Photo: Jason Straziuso
    Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Nairobi, Kenya_An injured person arrives...
  • Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Baghdad_People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families and killing scores of people during the deadliest of a string of attacks around Iraq. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. Photo: Hadi Mizban
    Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013: Baghdad_People inspect the site of a...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families, killing scores of people during the deadliest of a string of attacks around Iraq. Photo: Karim Kadim
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ People inspect the site of a...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack in the Shiite neighborhood of the Sadr City district. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families and killing scores of people during the deadliest of a string of attacks around Iraq. Photo: Karim Kadim
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ People inspect the site of a...
  • Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ Relatives of a man killed in an attack grieve over his coffin during a funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families, killing scores of people during the deadliest of a string of attacks around Iraq. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. Photo: AP
    Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Baghdad_ Relatives of a man killed in an...



An assault by Islamic extremists at a shopping mall in Kenya, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday.
A recap of key events:
— Saturday, Sept. 21, through Sunday, Sept. 22: Nairobi, Kenya — Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside an upscale mall in Nairobi kill at least 68 people, wound more than 175 others and hold an unknown number of others hostage.
— Saturday, Sept. 21: Baghdad — A wave of attacks, mainly on a Shiite funeral in Baghdad, kill 104 people and wound more than 140 others.
— Sunday, Sept. 22: Peshawar, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers blow themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a church in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 78 and wounding more than 140 others..
— Sunday, Sept. 22, Baghdad — Iraqi authorities say a suicide attacker killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 35 others at a Sunni funeral.
Here's a gallery of photos from the last 48 hours of violence in Kenya, Pakistan and Iraq:
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