Nigeria prison break- 1,800 inmates escape WTF?

 WARRI, Nigeria: Militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched a series of coordinated attacks overnight in southeastern Nigeria, targeting a prison where more than 1,800 inmates then managed to escape, authorities said Monday.

The attacks began around 2 a.m. in the town of Owerri in Imo state and lasted for about two hours, according to local resident Uche Okafor. Gunmen also assaulted various other police and military buildings, authorities said.
“Efforts are in top gear to re-arrest the fleeing detainees,” said Nigeria prison spokesman Francis Enobore, adding that 35 other inmates stayed behind during the prison break.
The coordinated attacks come less than two weeks after another wave of violence in southeastern Nigeria, when at least a dozen security officers were killed during attacks on four police stations, military checkpoints and prison vehicles.

Houthi security chief accused of rape and torture in Yemen dies from COVID-19

 RIYADH: A Houthi security official in Yemen who had been sanctioned for torture, sexual violence, and cruel treatment of women has died from COVID-19.

Sultan Zabin, director of the militia’s shadowy Criminal Investigation Department in Sanaa, was sanctioned by the US Treasury late last year and the UN Security Council earlier this year.

Houthi-run Saba News Agency said the official died “from an incurable disease.” Al Arabiya reported that he died from COVID-19.
A Security Council resolution in February said Zabin was directly or through his authority responsible for using multiple places of detention including police stations, prisons and detention centers for human rights abuses.
The US Treasury sanctioned Zabin in December along with several other officials from the Iran-backed group.
Zabin had “direct involvement in acts of rape, physical abuse, and arbitrary arrest and detention of women as part of a policy to inhibit or otherwise prevent political activities by women who have opposed the policies of the Houthis,” the Treasury said.

Missing- ABBY LYNN PATTERSON

 The Charlotte Division of the FBI and the Lumberton Police Department in North Carolina are seeking assistance from the public to locate Abby Lynn Patterson.

 

Patterson was last seen on Tuesday, September 5, 2017, around 11:30 a.m. She left her home on East 9th Street in Lumberton, North Carolina, and was seen getting into a brown Buick. Patterson has not been seen since and has not had any contact with family or friends.

Graphic videos show Ethiopian soldiers carrying out mass killing in Tigray

 

Iranian-backed militias accused of targeting Kurds in Iraq

 Rockets were fired by Iranian-backed militias at Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday evening in Iraqi Kurdistan. A statement says that at 9:34 p.m. “some Peshmerga units and bases of [the] Kurdistan National Army, Zeravani forces and Kirkuk forces were attacked by six BM-21 type rockets. These rockets were fired from the Iranian hashds [Iranian-backed militias] patrolling the areas.”

The Peshmerga forces are the armed forces of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq.

Chinatown Store owner pulls gun

  

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