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Thai nightclub fire kills 13, PM orders probe

by Pathom SANGWONGWANICH Agence France-Presse BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Thailand’s prime minister on Friday ordered an investigation into a massive blaze that tore through a nightclub, killing at least 13 people. The fire broke out around 1:00 am (1800 GMT Thursday) at the Mountain B nightspot in Chonburi province’s Sattahip district, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of Bangkok. Video footage posted by a rescue service showed desperate revellers fleeing the club screaming, their clothes […]

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Six dead, dozens hurt in stampede at Italian nightclub

  ROME, Italy (AFP) — Six people died and dozens were injured in a stampede when panic broke out during a rap concert at an Italian nightclub Saturday morning, the fire service said. Media reports say the suspected use of a pepper spray-like substance sparked the chaos at the venue in the town of Corinaldo, near Ancona in central Italy. “The cause may have been the dispersal of a stinging substance, the young people fled […]

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12 injured in suspected acid attack in London club

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Twelve people were injured when a corrosive substance was thrown inside a packed London nightclub on Monday, police and fire services said, amid a sharp rise in acid attacks in the British capital. A London Fire Brigade spokesperson told AFP an “unknown corrosive substance” was thrown in Mangle, a club in east London, in the early hours of Monday. It was identified as “an acidic substance” from testing, he said, […]

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Florida nightclub gunman’s wife accused of misleading police

CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, appeared an Oakland, California court on Tuesday (January 17), accused of misleading authorities investigating the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Noor Salman faces up to life in prison on a charge of aiding and abetting husband Omar Mateen’s attempt to provide material support to a terrorist organization and is also accused of […]

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‘Suge’ Knight sues Chris Brown over nightclub shooting

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has filed a lawsuit against Chris Brown claiming that the R&B star did not hire adequate security at a nightclub where Knight was shot in 2014. Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the suit also accuses the club’s owners of failing to hire proper security at the party hosted by Brown and of allowing at least one armed person into the venue. The […]

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US lawmakers probing Orlando shooter’s Facebook posts

ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — A top US lawmaker said Thursday authorities were probing the Facebook activity of the Orlando nightclub shooter, after an investigation found Omar Mateen made extremist posts during the massacre and searched for news of his attack. Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking the company to share specifics of five accounts apparently used by Mateen. […]

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China’s Xi sends ‘deep ‘condolences’ over US club massacre

BEIJING , China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called his US counterpart Barack Obama on Monday to express “deep condolences” over the 50 people killed by a gunman in a Florida gay nightclub, officials said. Xi “expressed deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the American people” and “deep condolences” to the victims of the attack, the foreign ministry said on its website. He joined an international outpouring of sympathy over the worst mass shooting […]

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