War, Hurricanes, Earthquakes & Natural Disasters

Yehya: Evidence points to suicide in Bhersaf collective murder

Source: NOW Lebanon

Beirut :: Lebanon | updated Fri Nov 20 12:53:03 -0800 2009 | disasters

Judicial Police Commander General Anwar Yehya told Al-Manar television on Friday that evidence in the death of a mother, Grace Jalkh, and her three daughters in Bhersaf-Metn on Wednesday night points, until now, to a suicide. According to Yehya, the...

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Huge blast rocks Peshawar, cause heavy causality

Source: Press TV

Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated Fri Oct 09 16:23:09 -0700 2009 | disasters

The deadly blast hit a shopping area close to the city's main Khyber Bazaar on Friday morning. A Press TV reporter in the city said at least fifteen people were killed and more than three dozens were injured in the...

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Victim identified in West Vail shooting

Source: Vail Daily News

Vail :: CO :: USA | updated Sun Nov 08 16:14:02 -0800 2009 | disasters

Colorado — The man who died in a shooting at the Sandbar in West Vail on Saturday night has been identified as Gary Bruce Kitching, 70, of Carbondale. One person was killed and three were injured when gunfire broke out...

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Man killed by train in Evanston

Source: Chicago Tribune

Evanston :: IL :: USA | updated Mon Nov 23 10:20:36 -0800 2009 | disasters

A Chicago man was struck and killed early this morning by a Chicago Transit Authority train in Evanston. Eric Utech, 42, of the 1300 block of West Fargo Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood, died on the scene, according to...

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Train kills Livermore pedestrian

Source: Contra Costa Times

Livermore :: CA :: USA | updated Sat Oct 31 21:16:13 -0700 2009 | disasters

A 19-year-old Livermore man was struck and killed by a freight train early Saturday morning east of downtown Livermore, police reported. Tyler Richard Booth had massive head trauma, according to the Alameda County Coroner's Office. The crew of the Union...

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Richmond High student gang-raped outside dance

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Martínez :: Mexico | updated Tue Oct 27 08:19:24 -0700 2009 | disasters

A suspect has been arrested and several others are being sought in the rape of a 15-year-old girl who was attacked outside a Richmond High School homecoming dance, police said today. More Crime News The attack happened late Friday in...

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Al Qaeda calls for holy war against China

Source: NewKerala

Urumqi :: China | updated Thu Oct 08 02:36:42 -0700 2009 | disasters

Muslims with historical and linguistic ties to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Uighurs live in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, which Islamists call East Turkistan. According to the Washington-based terrorism monitoring group IntelCenter, the tape was made around...

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Six more to die over China riots

Source: Al Jazeera

Beijing :: China | updated Thu Oct 15 03:40:01 -0700 2009 | disasters

The convictions bring to 12 the number facing execution over the unrest, after six other defendants were sentenced to death on Monday. Three others were given sentences of life in jail for their role in the July 5 unrest, the...

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Shocking gang rape at California school dance

Source: NewKerala

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated Tue Oct 27 22:36:55 -0700 2009 | disasters

Police arrested a 19-year-old as he ran from the scene where a student who had attended the dance had been brutally raped by as many as six people. "She was raped, beaten, robbed and dehumanized by several suspects who were...

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Mystery surrounds brutal murder of Geeta Aulakh

Source: The Guardian

London :: United Kingdom | updated Fri Nov 20 11:09:59 -0800 2009 | disasters

Geeta was mutilated and left to die in the street in Greenford, north-west London. Photograph: Sunrise Radio/Press Association Every day, staff at Sunrise Radio were greeted with a smile from Geeta Aulakh, the receptionist who had dreamed as a young...

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