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Friday, June 27, 2014
LIMA ( Nine Die in Boat Collision in Peru )
LIMA – At least nine people died and another three were injured Tuesday after two fishing boats crashed into each other off the coast of the Peruvian port of Pisco, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Lima.The accident occurred at 1:00 a.m. when the vessels Tasa 147 and Marisol II collided for reasons as yet undetermined, 3 miles north of the Chincha Islands and 15 miles from the port, the navy said in a statement.
The collision caused the Marisol II to capsize with a crew of 15 aboard, of whom three have been rescued alive and nine were drowned.
The harbor master’s office in Pisco immediately dispatched a speedboat to the scene of the accident together with coast guard personnel on ships near the place the shipwreck occurred.
Also sent to the area were three patrol boats, a helicopter with a rescue crew, and a Fokker aircraft with 12 expert divers.
An investigation is underway to determine the causes of the accident
LA PAZ ( Mob in Bolivia Burns Accused Murderer Alive )
LA PAZ – A 30-year-old man accused of raping and murdering a woman in the eastern province of Santa Cruz was seized by a mob and burned to death, Bolivian authorities said on Wednesday.The lynching victim has been identified as Dario Ribero Maldonado, police Col. Octavio Gutierrez told reporters.
Police had sought him for questioning in connection with a May 25 rape-murder in Montero.
Ribero’s body, bound with barbed wire, was recovered Wednesday from a common grave, El Mundo newspaper said in its Web edition.
The accused killer was captured by vigilantes after his return to Montero on Monday.
The mob tortured Ribero before taking him to the cemetery, dumping him in the common grave and setting him on fire, according to the police report.
Montero residents delayed authorities’ efforts to recover the body and are refusing to cooperate with the investigation, police said.
People taking the law into their own hands is fairly common in rural Bolivia, especially in remote indigenous villages.
Bolivia’s 2009 constitution explicitly recognizes “community justice,” but officials have insisted repeatedly that the charter does not legalize lynching or vigilantism.
Anywhere from 10 to 20 people are killed by lynch mobs every year, Bolivian human rights organizations say
LA PAZ ( 11 Stabbed at Bolivian Airport )
LA PAZ – Eleven people were hurt Thursday when a man authorities described as mentally ill went on a stabbing spree at El Alto International Airport, which serves the Bolivian capital, authorities said.Initial accounts put the number injured at seven.
Nine of the 11 victims were badly hurt, police commander Adolfo Cardenas told the media.
Seven of those listed in serious condition are women, he said.
A police officer stabbed while trying to subdue the attacker also suffered serious injuries, Cardenas said.
The assailant, who was taken into custody shortly after the stabbing rampage, will undergo a psychiatric evaluation, the commander said, adding that the suspect’s initial statements to police were “incoherent.”
The incident took place around 7:30 a.m. in the arrivals area of the terminal, witnesses told media outlets.
Deputy Interior Minister Jorge Perez characterized the suspect as “a person with very serious mental problems.”
One eyewitness told Radio Erbol that the attacker began by stabbing a clerk at a shop in the terminal.
In its Web edition, La Razon newspaper cited another witness as saying that after he was apprehended, the assailant “said he wanted to go to Jupiter and that they didn’t let him get on the airplane.”
The injured were taken to hospitals in El Alto and neighboring La Paz.
Mexico ( Shootings Leave 2 Dead, 3 Wounded in Northeast Mexico )
MEXICO CITY – Two people were killed and three others, including two children, wounded in three shootings in the cities of Madero and Tampico, both located in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, prosecutors said Thursday.The first shootout occurred on Wednesday in downtown Ciudad Madero, where gunmen murdered an unidentified man, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
Gunmen shot a 44-year-old taxi driver in Tampico, the AG’s office said, adding that two students from a nearby school were wounded by stray shots.
The three victims were transported to a hospital, where they are listed in serious condition and expected to undergo surgery, the AG’s office said.
An unidentified man, estimated to be between 25 and 30, was murdered by gunmen.
The federal government said last month it was deploying more security forces units in Tamaulipas and planned to purge law enforcement agencies in an effort to stop the surge in drug-related violence in the northeastern state.
The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States for years.
The federal government deployed security forces units in January in the western state of Michoacan and in April in Mexico state, which surrounds the Federal District and forms part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, to deal with drug-related violence.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Libya ( A prominent Libyan activist - killed shot and stabbed )
CAIRO (AP) — A prominent Libyan activist who had become an international face of her strife-torn country's efforts to build a democracy was assassinated by gunmen who stormed her home in the restive eastern city of Benghazi shortly after casting her ballot in the country's parliamentary elections, police said Thursday.
The slaying of Salwa Bugaighis stunned residents of her home city, politicians, activists and diplomats, among whom she was well known. International rights groups called on authorities to investigate, something many Libyans believe won't be possible amid widespread fear of militias.
Bugaighis, a lawyer and rights activist, was at the forefront in the 2011 uprising against dictator Moammar Gadhafi. After his ouster, she became one of the most outspoken voices against militiamen and Islamic extremists who have run rampant in the country.
The identity of the gunmen was not immediately known. Islamic radical militias, however, have been blamed for frequent assassinations of secular activists, judges, moderate clerics, policemen and soldiers in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city.
Bugaighis was shot in the head and stabbed multiple times on Wednesday night, just hours after casting her ballot, police spokesman Ibrahim al-Sharaa said. She was rushed to a hospital where she died of her wounds, he said.
Her husband, who is a member of the Benghazi municipal council and was also at home at the time, has disappeared since the attack and is believed to have been abducted, al-Sharaa said.
Earlier in the day, Bugaighis had been speaking by phone from her home on a Libyan TV channel about fighting raging near her neighborhood, sparked when militants attacked army troops deploying to protect polling stations.
Iran ( Leva Khanjani released from prison )
Posted on: 25th June, 2014
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), she was arrested on January 3, 2010, along with her husband Babak Mobasher, on the pretext that they had participated in street protests following the 2009 elections.
She began serving her sentence in Evin Prison, in Tehran, on August 25, 2012.
Leva Khanjani is granddaughter of Jamaleddin Khanjani, one of seven Bahai facilitators (Yaran) who were sentenced to 20 years in prison after their May 2008 arrest. Her brother Fu’ad Khanjani was sentenced to four years in prison by Tehran Revolutionary Court on January 17, 2012.
Both Jamaleddin and Fu’ad Khanjani are now serving their sentences inside Raja’i Shahr Prison.
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