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MOSCOW, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – A 14-year-old girl shot a classmate dead and injured five people before killing herself at a secondary school in the Russian city of Bryansk near the Ukraine border on Thursday. Fatal attacks at educational facilities — previously a rarity — have become more common in Russia in recent years. Moscow has taken steps to tighten already strict gun laws after a series of school attacks. After the Bryansk attack, […]
HOUSTON, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – A Texas gunman has been arrested after a rampage across the US state left six people dead and three injured, including two police officers, authorities said Wednesday. The shooting spree occurred over the span of several hours Tuesday in Austin, where four people were shot dead and the suspect engaged in a shootout with police, and in the San Antonio area where a man and woman were found dead […]
– #BREAKING: According to our investigators at the scene, we have three deceased victims and one additional victim in critical condition at a local hospital. The suspect in this #ActiveShooter incident is also deceased. We will update as soon as we can with accurate information. https://t.co/h56jaYcFwg — LVMPD (@LVMPD) December 6, 2023 By Robin GREMMEL LAS VEGAS, Dec 7, 2023 (AFP) – Three people were killed and another seriously injured by a gunman […]
JERUSALEM, Nov 30, 2023 (AFP) – Two people were killed and eight wounded, including five left in a serious condition, in a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, first responders said. Police said two suspects “implicated in the shootings were neutralised on the spot” after the attack near a bus stop on the western side of Jerusalem, where there are no checkpoints guarding entrance to the city. “Two terrorists arrived in a car, one of them […]
By Tomohiro OSAKI SAITAMA, Japan, Oct 31, 2023 (AFP) – Japanese police detained a reportedly 86-year-old man who held several people hostage in a post office after apparently shooting into a hospital and injuring two people on Tuesday. After a standoff lasting eight hours in Warabi, outside Tokyo, police said they finally detained the man after 10 pm (1300 GMT) after surrounding the three-storey building. “The man has been detained. Details will come later,” a […]
By Inès BEL AIBA LEWISTON, United States, Oct 28, 2023 (AFP) – The suspect in a mass shooting in the US state of Maine has been found dead after a two-day manhunt that mobilized hundreds of law enforcement agents to find the culprit in the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this year. Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his body was found at 7:45 pm (2345 […]
LEWISTON, United States, Oct 27, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Maine struggled for a second day Friday to catch a man who gunned down 18 people with a semi-automatic rifle in a bowling alley and a bar in a town where locals were enjoying an evening out. In Lewiston, a hard-scrabble city in the mostly rural north-eastern state, there was an atmosphere of dread and bewilderment as residents waited indoors, while authorities erected roadblocks and […]
By Inès BEL AIBA LEWISTON, United States, Oct 27, 2023 (AFP) – An urgent police dragnet entered its second day late Thursday for a man accused of gunning down 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the US state of Maine, as President Joe Biden mourned “yet another senseless and tragic mass shooting.” Dozens of law enforcement agents surrounded the family home of 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, but by mid-evening agents left […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – Police have released the name of an “armed and dangerous” person of interest in the deadly Maine shootings that have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left many more injured. Police in the city of Lewiston said they are trying to locate Robert Card, 40, “as a person of interest regarding the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Sparetime Recreation this evening,” adding that he “should […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – At least 22 people were killed and “many, many more” were injured in shootings in the city of Lewiston, Maine Wednesday evening, city officials reported, overwhelming local hospitals with gunshot victims. City Councilor Robert McCarthy told CNN that the death toll had risen to 22 in the shooting spree that took place at a bowling alley and also at least one other location, a local restaurant and bar, according […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured in shootings in the city of Lewiston, Maine Wednesday night, US media reported, with police saying that the gunman was still at large. The death toll was reported to be as high as 16 by CNN and the Wall Street Journal, in the shooting spree that took place at a bowling alley and also at least one other location, a […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 4, 2023 (AFP) – At least five people were injured in a shooting on a university campus in the eastern US city of Baltimore late Tuesday, police said. The shooting took place on the campus of the historically Black university Morgan State around 9:25 pm (0125 GMT on Wednesday), Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters. Five people between the ages of 18 and 22 had been injured in the incident, but none […]
