A woman in her 40s hanged herself in a supermarket toilet in Tokyo after she was caught shoplifting food, police said Monday.
According to police, a supermarket employee in Kodaira saw the woman stealing groceries at around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Fuji TV reported that the woman was taken to an office and was being questioned when she requested to go to the toilet. She was escorted to a washroom where police say she proceeded to hang herself with her sweater.
According to police, the woman was found and taken to a nearby hospital where she remained unconscious Monday. Doctors have described her condition as critical. Police said they have not yet been able to identify the woman.
TUCSON - University of Arizona Police are searching for a male suspect who attacked a female student Saturday morning.
According to Officer Joe Bermudez with UAPD, the suspect approached the female near Park Avenue and James E. Rogers Way around 9:15 a.m.
He said the suspect reportely grabbed her buttocks and tried to throw her to the ground.
The victim was not injured in the attack.
The suspect is described as a white male, 25-25 years of age, 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing between 150 and 175 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a sleeveless dark brown t-shirt, tan cargo shorts and a beige field hat.
Anyone with information is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
In yet another depressing tale from the national capital, a woman was gangraped by a man she claimed she was her husband, and two of his friends inside a moving vehicle before being dumped on the road.
The three accused — Inderjeet (who she claims is her husband), Nitin and Bijendra — have been arrested. While Inderjeet is a businessman in Bakkarwala in southwest Delhi, the other two are property dealers, reported the Times of India.
PTI
Hindustan Times said the incident came to light around 9pm after a man made a call to the police to inform them that a woman was lying unconscious in a lane near Udasin Ashram in Najafgarh.
She had reportedly made a written statement claiming she was gangraped, and rape had also been confirmed by a medical examination.
According to the woman, she had told police that she had married Inderjeet at a local temple. “Inderjeet’s relatives then called her to Bakkarwala so that they could complete the formalities of registry marriage”, said an officer to Times of India.
The men, police told Indian Express, gave the woman a drink laced with sedatives. When she fell unconscious, they took turns to rape her.
There is however some confusion on the status of her relationship with Inderjeet, reported Times of India.
“Earlier, the 26-year-old woman had lodged an FIR at the Mundka station, alleging that Inderjeet had raped her. Inderjeet had also lodged a complaint on February 28, alleging that the same woman was trying to falsely implicate him in crime against women cases. A police probe is on”, it said.
CULIACAN, Mexico –
The bodies of six men were found inside an SUV near the industrial zone in
Ahome, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, police
said.
The grisly discovery was made Saturday by municipal
police.
The vehicle was taken in an armed robbery on April 8 in the town
of Juan Jose Rios, officials said.
Army troops cordoned off the area
while crime scene investigators from the prosecutor’s office gathered
evidence.
The SUV was towed to a funeral home with the bodies still
inside so they could be examined by specialists, officials said.
Sinaloa
Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez went to the funeral home to oversee
the investigation.
The victims were stripped to the waist and wore only
pants and sandals, police said.
“It is believed that the victims are
farmworkers who were reported missing on Friday night after drinking at an
agricultural camp,” a police spokesman said.
The motive for the massacre
is not known, but Sinaloa has been plagued by drug-related violence for
years.
Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel led by Joaquin “El
Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman.
The Sinaloa cartel, sometimes referred to by
officials as the Pacific cartel, is the oldest drug cartel in Mexico and Guzman,
considered extremely violent, is one of the most-wanted criminals in Mexico and
the United States, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has offered a
reward of $5 million for him.
The rival Los Zetas cartel has been trying
to grab control of some areas in the state from the Sinaloa
organization.
The war on drugs launched by former President Felipe
Calderon, who was in office from 2006 to 2012, left about 70,000 people dead, or
an average of 32 per day, in Mexico, officials say.
Calderon, of the
conservative National Action Party, or PAN, deployed thousands of soldiers and
Federal Police officers across the country to fight drug cartels.
TALUQAN, Afghanistan, April 21 (Reuters) - As many as 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's far north fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, local officials said on Sunday.
While instances of poisoning are sometimes later found to be false alarms, there have been numerous substantiated cases of mass poisonings of schoolgirls by elements of Afghanistan's ultra-conservative society that are opposed to female education.
Local officials said the girls became ill after smelling gas at their school, Bibi Maryam, in Takhar province's capital, Taluqan. The city is about 250 kilometres north of the country's capital, Kabul.
The Takhar governor's spokesman, Sulaiman Moradi, blamed "enemies of the government and the country" for the mass illness and said the aim was to stop girls from going to school.
The girls were taken to the provincial hospital and most were released after being treated, though several remained in a critical condition on Sunday evening, the head of the hospital, Dr Jamil Frotan, said.
"We have already sent samples of their blood to the Ministry of Public Health and it will soon become clear what the reason for their illness was," Frotan said.
The apparent poisoning came three days after more than a dozen students fell ill in another girls' high school in Taluqan. No-one has claimed responsibility for either incident.
Between May and June last year there were four poisoning attacks on a girls' school in Takhar, prompting local officials to order principals to stay in school until late and staff to search the grounds for suspicious objects and to test the water for contaminants.
Takhar has been a hotbed of militancy and criminal activity since 2009, with groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan active.
Since the 2001 ousting of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul.
But periodic attacks against female students, their teachers and their school buildings, continue.
Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and employment since 2001, but fears are growing that such gains could be traded away as Western forces prepare to leave and the Afghan government seeks peace talks with the Taliban. (Writing by Dylan Welch; Editing by Stephen Powell)
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Amir Chamani who is a sociology graduate student at Tabriz University, returned to Tabriz central prison after being allowed only 4 days of furlough.
According to CHRR, political and student activist Amir Chamani was granted temporary release from prison on April 15th after enduring 92 days behind bars. On April 19th, after only four days he returned to the Tabriz Central prison.
On January 14, 2013, Judge Hamlbar presiding over Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court handed Amir Chamani a 6-month prison sentence for “insulting the leader and founder of the Islamic Republic,” and a 3-month (100 days) prison sentence for “propaganda against the regime. On January 13th the activist also received a sentence of 40 lashes for “insulting the presidency.”
CULIACAN, Mexico –
The bodies of six men were found inside an SUV near the industrial zone in
Ahome, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, police
said.
