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LONDON (Reuters) -British emergency services said a man had been arrested after at least eight people were stabbed in Southport, northwest England, on Monday, with a local children’s hospital declaring a major incident and the prime minister calling it “deeply shocking”. North West Ambulance Service said it had treated eight patients with stab injuries who had been taken to three different hospitals, including Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Merseyside Police said armed police had arrested a […]
By Elodie LE MAOU, Fabrice COFFRINI LAUSANNE, July 12, 2024 (AFP) – At least three people were killed and eight injured on Friday when scaffolding collapsed off a 19-storey building under construction in the western Swiss city of Lausanne, police said. The scaffolding collapsed shortly before 9:30 am (0730 GMT), falling “like a house of cards”, according to one witness. The entire scaffolding structure on one side of the 60-metre (200-foot) tower came down, sending […]
LONDON, July 12, 2024 (AFP) – Detectives from the UK’s largest police force said Friday that they were leading the manhunt after two suitcases believed to contain the remains of two men were dumped on a famous bridge. Avon and Somerset Police received a report late on Wednesday night of a man with a suitcase acting suspiciously on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, southwest England. Officers arrived at the scene around 10 minutes later, […]
By Jean Daniel Senat with Hillary Orinde in Nairobi and Shaun Tandon in Washington PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 25, 2024 (AFP) – Kenyan police arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday on a long-awaited mission to help wrest the Caribbean nation from powerful gangs, just as Nairobi saw its own deadly turmoil during mass protests. Wearing camouflage uniforms, helmets and rifles, about 200 officers descended from a Kenya Airways plane on the tarmac in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. […]
MOSCOW, June 24, 2024 (AFP) – Gunmen attacked churches and synagogues in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing at least eight police and national guard officers and a priest, officials said. The unidentified gunmen launched simultaneous attacks in Dagestan’s largest city of Makhachkala and in the coastal city of Derbent. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it had opened criminal probes over “acts of terror” in Dagestan, a largely Muslim region of Russia neighbouring […]
MOSCOW, June 23, 2024 (AFP) – The interior ministry in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan said attackers shot at a police car, wounding one officer, as deadly shootouts with police continued in two cities in the region. The Dagestan interior ministry’s spokeswoman said that on the central square of the village of Sergokal, 65 kilometres from the region’s main city of Makhachkala, “unknown (attackers) fired on a police car. One is wounded,” RIA Novosti […]
ATHENS, June 9, 2024 (AFP) – British diet guru and TV personality Michael Mosley was found dead on Sunday on the Greek island of Symi where he went missing this week, police said. “People on a boat saw a body close to the rocky coast,” said Petros Vassilakis, police chief for the southern Aegean region. The lifeless body was spotted by a television crew from Greece’s ERT public channel out filming in the area where […]
LONDON, May 21, 2024 (AFP) – A former member of the UK’s Royal Marines, bailed by a court last week over allegations of assisting Hong Kong’s intelligence services in a Chinese-linked espionage case, has been found dead, British police said Tuesday. Matthew Trickett, 37, was found dead in a park in Maidenhead, west of London, on Sunday following a report by a member of the public, Thames Valley Police said. Trickett had more recently […]
ROUEN, France (AFP) – French police on Friday shot dead an Algerian man armed with a knife and an iron bar who tried to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, adding to concerns over anti-Semitic violence in the country. The French Jewish community, the third largest in the world, has for months been on edge in the face of a growing number of attacks and desecrations of memorials. Emergency services […]
A jailbreak at a prison in northern Haiti led to a lockdown on the streets of the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, as authorities tried to recapture escapees with a pair still at large, police said Saturday. Six fugitives had been apprehended since the Friday night escape. Four others were shot dead. Gang violence beginning at the end of February — plunging impoverished and politically unstable Haiti deeper into chaos — has led to more than […]
SYDNEY, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Western Australian police shot and killed a “radicalised” 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday. The teenager “rushed” at police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot, they said. “There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage […]
LONDON, May 1, 2024 (AFP) – A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday for attempted murder after three people were injured in an apparent stabbing at a school in northern England, police said, days after a similar incident in Wales. The boy was detained following reports of three people being injured at Birley Community College in Sheffield, South Yorkshire Police said. Officers responded to reports of an incident “involving a sharp object” at around 8:50 […]
