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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The engineer who shot dead 12 people at a municipal building in a US beach resort city had submitted his resignation hours before the killings, a city official said on Sunday. DeWayne Craddock, 40, had worked as an engineer for the public works department in Virginia Beach, Virginia for about 15 years before carrying out the Friday rampage at his workplace that also left four people wounded. According to the […]
A longtime public utilities employee sprayed gunfire “indiscriminately” in a government building complex on Friday in the US state of Virginia, police said, killing 11 people and wounding six in the latest mass shooting to rock the country. The gunman was also killed after trading fire with responding officers, police chief James Cervera told a news conference. “We have 11 deceased victims there at the scene, six more victims transported to area hospitals,” he said. […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Gunmen killed at least 11 people in a bar in northern Brazil on Sunday, officials said. The shooting took place in the city of Belem, the public safety department of northern Para state said. There was no immediate word on the motive of the shooting. The attackers fled but the news website G1 quoted police as saying one was wounded and is in police custody. The fatalities are […]
HIGHLAND RANCH, United States (AFP) — One of the two suspects in a Colorado school shooting that left a student dead and eight wounded is a girl, Denver police said Wednesday. The sheriff of Douglas County, in the Denver suburbs, initially said his men had arrested two boys after Tuesday’s shooting spree, both students at the Highlands Ranch STEM school. One of the suspects was 18 and the other was a minor. But Sheriff Tony […]
by Chet Strange LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least eight teenaged students were wounded Tuesday in a school shooting by fellow pupils in the US state of Colorado, police said, across town from one of the worst gun massacres in the country’s modern history. Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said several of the students hurt were in critical condition, including some in surgery. No staff or teachers were known to be wounded. The […]
CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) — At least two people were killed and several wounded Tuesday in a shooting at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus, staff and local media reported. “Shots reported near Kennedy. Run, Hide, Fight. Secure yourself immediately,” the university’s office of emergency management tweeted. The Charlotte Observer said two people were dead and two others had life-threatening injuries. The local Fox television affiliate identified the dead as boys aged 17 […]
by Sandy Huffaker Agence France Presse POWAY, United States (AFP) — Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway synagogue had been finalizing his sermon for the last day of Passover when he heard a loud bang and stopped in his tracks. The preacher had just passed his good friend Lori Kaye in the lobby. The pair exchanged smiles, and his immediate thought was that she “may have fell or a table tipped over.” […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Four people were shot dead Monday in three areas of the western Canadian town of Penticton, federal police said, describing the shootings as a “targeted incident.” “We have determined four people are deceased at three locations within a four kilometer (2.5 mile) radius,” Superintendent Ted De Jager said in a press conference. A 60-year-old man handed himself in and was detained after police were called over the first two killings late […]
by Chris Foley Agence France Presse CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — The man accused of shooting dead 50 Muslim worshippers in a Christchurch mosque sat impassively Friday as a New Zealand judge ordered him to undergo tests to determine if he is mentally fit to stand trial for murder. Survivors and relatives of those killed in the March 15 attacks packed into a Christchurch courtroom as alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant appeared via audio-visual link […]
(Eagle News)—The Department of Foreign Affairs is still checking whether Filipinos were among those killed or injured in the shooting in Utrecht, Netherlands. In a statement, the DFA said the Philippine Embassy in The Hague was currently coordinating with the Dutch police and the Dutch Foreign Ministry on developments. Ambassador Jaime Victor Ledda also told the DFA the embassy was contacting Filipino community members in Utrecht and advising them to take the necessary precautions. “The […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — An imam who was leading prayers at a Christchurch mosque when a gunman brandishing semi-automatic weapons mowed down his congregation said Saturday that the Muslim community’s love for New Zealand would not be shaken by the massacre. “We still love this country,” said Ibrahim Abdul Halim, imam of Linwood Mosque, vowing that extremists would “never ever touch our confidence”. Halim gave a harrowing account of the moment during Friday prayers […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday “strongly condemned” the attack on two mosques in New Zealand that left at least 40 people dead. “I strongly condemn the terror attack against the Al Noor Mosque in #NewZealand and Muslim worshippers. May Allah have mercy on the victims and grant a speedy recovery to the wounded,” the Turkish leader wrote on Twitter in English. His spokesman Ibrahim Kalin had earlier called it a […]
