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By Laura CHUNG SYDNEY, April 13, 2024 (AFP) – Six people were killed and several others injured — including a nine-month-old baby — when a knife-wielding attacker rampaged through a busy Sydney shopping centre on Saturday. Australian police said multiple people were stabbed by the unidentified assailant, who was tracked down and shot dead by a policewoman who is being hailed as a national hero. The incident occurred at the sprawling Westfield Bondi Junction mall […]
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – A man who went on a rampage at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday shot dead eight people before he was himself killed, authorities said. “(We) found seven deceased individuals on scene. We transported nine individuals to the hospital… Of those we transported, two have since died,” said fire chief Jonathan Boyd of Allen, Texas. The shooting sparked panic at Allen Premium Outlets, a sprawling shopping complex in Allen, […]
Kampala, Uganda (AFP) At least nine people died, most aged between 10 and 20, in a shopping mall crush as revellers rang in the New Year in Uganda’s capital, police said on Sunday. After fireworks outside the Freedom City mall in Kampala, “a stampede ensued, resulting in the instant deaths of five people and injuries to several others,” national police spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire said. Four others died on their way to hospital “largely due to […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The United Arab Emirates said Thursday it is looking into reopening its massive shopping malls, a month after they were closed as part of measures to curb the spread of coronavirus. The restrictions have hit businesses hard, particularly retailers who had expected to cater to a rush of Ramadan shoppers. Health ministry and crisis authorities have requested a study into “the possibility of reopening commercial centers with their private […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Dubai’s famous malls will shut down for a fortnight under the United Arab Emirates’ plan to curb coronavirus, which will also see its airports closed to passenger and transit flights. The decision to close commercial centers takes in shopping centers as well as fresh food markets, but pharmacies and food retail outlets will be allowed to stay open. Restaurants are limited to home deliveries. The health ministry and the […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — A woman was killed Tuesday at a Bangkok mall in shooting Thai police blamed on “jealousy”, less than two weeks after a soldier went on a gun rampage which left 29 dead at another shopping complex. The incident occurred inside a cosmetic clinic at the busy downtown Century Mall when a man burst in and gunned down his former partner over an alleged affair. One woman was killed and another was […]
By Dene-Hern Chen in Nakhon Ratchasima with Aidan Jones in Bangkok NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AFP) — In a fourth-floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall, shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a Thai soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside. Barricaded in the women’s toilet with a few dozen others, Chanathip Somsakul, a 33-year-old music teacher, and his wife […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on one of the country’s biggest shopping centers, in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday. The two men, aged 28 and 31, are originally from Kosovo, police said, four days after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people. Investigators were trying to establish what stage of preparation the plot was […]
