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by Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Two people, including a child, were feared dead Tuesday in a mass stabbing attack that also injured 17 people in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, the local fire department said. “One man and one female child are showing no vital signs, said fire department official Yuji Sekizawa, employing a phrase commonly used in Japan to mean the victims have died but the death has not yet been certified […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A mass stabbing attack in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Tuesday injured at least 19 people, among them one person left with “no vital signs”, the local fire department said. “The number of injured people is now 19, including one who is seriously injured and now shows no vital signs,” Kawasaki Fire Department spokesman Keiichi Hayakawa told AFP. “A man stabbed them,” another spokesman for the department, Dai Nagase, earlier […]
by Stanislaw WASZAK Agence France Presse GDANSK, Poland (AFP) — Thousands of people joined marches across Poland to pay tribute to the centrist mayor of Gdansk who died Monday, a day after being stabbed in the heart at a charity event. Pawel Adamowicz died in hospital after a day-long fight by doctors to save him. “Despite all our efforts, we failed to save him,” Doctor Tomasz Stefaniak, director of Gdansk University hospital, told Polish media. […]
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — A knife-wielding assailant on Sunday stabbed the mayor of the Polish port city of Gdansk in front of hundreds of people at a charity event, police and media said. Paramedics resuscitated Pawel Adamowicz, 53, at the scene before taking him to hospital where he underwent surgery. “I learned that doctors succeeded in re-establishing the cardiac function of Mr Adamowicz who has been gravely wounded. There is hope but his condition remains […]
by Robin MILLARD / Joe JACKSON Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — A British probe into a stabbing at a Manchester railway station on New Year’s Eve which injured three people is being treated as “a terrorist investigation”, the city’s police force said on Tuesday. The 25-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on Monday night is now being detained under a mental health law, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said late Tuesday. […]
by Germain Moyon with Jan Hennop in The Hague Agence France Presse AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch police were investigating Saturday a suspected terror attack at Amsterdam’s Central Station, in which two people were stabbed before the knifeman was shot by police. The assailant was identified as an 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit. “We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive,” Amsterdam police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told AFP. […]
(Eagle News)~The suspect in the killing of an Ombudsman assistant special prosecutor has been arrested. A report said jeepney barker Angelo Avenido Jr. ,31, was nabbed by authorities on Monday, June 4, at 5:45 p.m. This was only hours after the killing of Madonna Joy Enaco Tanyag in Quezon City. Police said Avenido had tried to rob Tanyag, but she resisted. Tanyag was five months pregnant at that time.
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finnish authorities on Tuesday said they had released two of the four suspects held in custody following this month’s stabbing attack that killed two and wounded eight. All four had been placed in pre-trial detention last week on suspicion of murder and attempted murder with terrorist intent but two of them were later cleared, a statement from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said. “There is no longer any reason […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — A knife attacker stabbed eight people on the street in Russia’s far northern city of Surgut before being shot by police, investigators said Saturday. The attacker “carried out attacks on passers-by, causing stab wounds to eight,” Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes said, adding that armed police then “liquidated” the attacker.
TURKU, Finland (AFP) — Police shot and wounded a suspect after a stabbing spree in which a man killed two people and wounded six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Within hours of the attack on Friday the force had announced increased police patrols across the country. “There are eight victims in the stabbing. Two dead and six injured,” Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square. A hospital official told […]
(Reuters) – The man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in Michigan unsuccessfully attempted to purchase a gun before the attack, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said on Thursday (June 22). The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, 49, of Quebec, Canada, has been charged in federal court with violence at an international airport for stabbing Jeff Neville, an officer at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, in the neck on […]
OHIO, United States (Reuters) — The man who drove a car into a crowd of pedestrians at Ohio State University (OSU) before jumping out and stabbing bystanders Monday morning has been identified as Abdul Razal Ali Artan, OSU’s director of public safety Monica Moll told reporters on Monday (November 28). Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at the university, was shot and killed within minutes of plowing into the group by police officer Alan […]
