Lives Database: Document Details and Wire Services

lives database: WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP/GETTY IMAGES file photo By Rosie DiManno Columnist Mon., June 12, 2017 Eighty men, women and children were killed by a suicide truck bombing in Kabul on May 31.I don't know the names of the dead, don't know anything about them, according to Toronto Star. That state of ignorance could be blamed on domestic reporting wire services and local Afghan journalists who can scarcely cover the big picture on the terrorist fly, much less document details of the slain. Between 2007 and 2015, murder-by-terrorists claimed 28,828 lives, according to the Statista Inc. database nearly all of them Afghan civilians. So we don't get stories flashed around the world about 8-year-old Afghan girls torn to shreds or a hero pummelling an assailant with a skateboard as Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria did, trying to defend a woman during the June 4 terrorist frenzy on London Bridge. Or it could be that terrorist strikes are so pitifully common in Afghanistan 1,708 in 2015 that individuals no longer matter except to their families. Echeverria lost his own life, among eight victims mowed down in the van attack and later stabbing spree in the Borough Market area. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.