India ( Tiger " snatched a man off a fishing boat " )

KOLKATA, India (AP) — A Bengal tiger snatched a man off a fishing boat in eastern India, dragging him away into a mangrove swamp as his children looked on in horror, the man's son said Friday.

The attack happened Thursday as Sushil Manjhi and his son and daughter were crab fishing in a stream in the Sunderbans National Park. The tiger leaped aboard the boat and clamped its jaws on Manjhi's neck, said Sushil's son, Jyotish.

The tiger "quickly flung my father on his back and gave a giant leap before disappearing into the forest," Jyotish said by telephone from his village of Lahiripur in West Bengal state. He said he and his sister tried to beat the animal with sticks and a knife, but the thrashing had no effect. His father was dragged away and was presumed dead.

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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.