Seven people have been shot dead and two girls allegedly raped in what is believed to be a revenge attack on a secondary school in northern Kenya.
Gunmen killed six children and one security guard in the dawn attack on Saturday which is thought to have been led by a former pupil suspended for fighting, a Kenyan police official said.
The suspected ringleader, a senior at the Lokichogio Mixed Secondary School, had vowed to take revenge after his punishment last week, according to Gideon Kibunja, Rift Valley regional criminal investigations chief, covering the Turkana region where the attack took place.
Kibunja said the gunmen, believed to be from neighbouring South Sudan, were looking for the head teacher of the school and the other student involved in the fight that led to the ringleader's suspension. The gunmen then shot other students in frustration at not finding the pair, he added.
The suspended student was arrested later on Saturday, but was killed when a mob of angry residents overwhelmed the police and took hold of him, Kibunja said.
Kenya’s KTN television channel said the victims included four boys and two girls and witnesses say the gunmen raped two girls and injured another 18 students, according to the BBC.
Clashes over cattle grazing and farming land are relatively common among communities in the north of Kenya and often result in revenge attacks.
Turkana county borders war-torn South Sudan and arms smuggling is a common problem along the border with police having little control over the weaponry being brought in.
“The attack ... is a painful reminder of the state of insecurity along the border," Josphat Nanok, Turkana county's governor, said on Twitter.
There has been a wave of violent incidents taking place in schools along Kenya’s border areas over the past two years.
The shooting comes a month after a girl was charged with murder following a fire which killed nine of her fellow pupils at a Nairobi boarding school.
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in the footage, the man, who has been identified as “Ahmed” by Indian media, is tied to a pole by his ankles. One man holds up his feet so that another can strike his bare soles repeatedly with canes. Police say that the attack actually took place on September 24, but footage of the incident only came to light on Monday. It took place in Malviya Nagar, a locality in South Delhi. The Nigerian man who was attacked was allegedly caught burgling a house. Krishna Kumar, the owner of the house, tied him up before thrashing him. Police have since arrested five of the attackers, and have kept the Nigerian man in custody as well on suspicion of theft.
Police deny that the attack was racially motivated. NDTV reported that Ishwar Singh, the district police chief, said, "There is no indication of a racial attack. The Nigerian Embassy was informed about the arrest of Nigerian national Ahmed before he was sent in judicial custody by a court here till Tuesday". Dependra Pathak, the spokesperson for Delhi police, told the Press Trust of India, "It is a case of attempted burglary. Those living in the house got alerted. They caught him and beat him up." He added that the Nigerian man was "medically examined as he had injuries".
Police deny that the attack was racially motivated. NDTV reported that Ishwar Singh, the district police chief, said, "There is no indication of a racial attack. The Nigerian Embassy was informed about the arrest of Nigerian national Ahmed before he was sent in judicial custody by a court here till Tuesday". Dependra Pathak, the spokesperson for Delhi police, told the Press Trust of India, "It is a case of attempted burglary. Those living in the house got alerted. They caught him and beat him up." He added that the Nigerian man was "medically examined as he had injuries".
In March, a dozen African students were attacked by mobs in Greater Noida, east of Delhi, after an Indian student died in an unrelated incident. They were accused of killing him with a deliberate drug overdose and of cannibalism.
Wild elephants trampled sleeping Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in the early hours of Saturday, killing three children and a woman in the second such incident since the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Myanmar in just a few weeks.
Many trees on the forested hills of Balukhali in southern Bangladesh, where the incident took place, have been chopped down to house the massive influx of Rohingya Muslims escaping violence in neighboring Myanmar.
Tarpaulin and bamboo shelters have been built on elephant walkways in some areas, sparking environmental concerns, as the country struggles to accommodate an unprecedented number of people.
Besides those killed, four refugees from neighboring tents were injured and were in critical condition at Sadar Hospital in Cox’s Bazar, the town’s additional superintendent of police Afrujul Hoque Totul told Reuters.
At the refugee camp, cooking utensils the family had brought from Myanmar lay crushed under a jumble of bamboo sticks and clothes.
Abdul Sukoor, 30, whose tent on the edge of the camp was also trampled, said he and his family managed to escape when they heard the screams of other refugees as the elephants approached.
He is now moving to a tent further inside the camp, but said he was still worried. “We have to be constantly alert at night,” he said.
More than 530,000 refugees from Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh over the last two months since attacks by Rohingya militants on security posts triggered a Myanmar army operation that the United Nations has described as ethnic cleansing.
After Carnival Cruise Lines ship Glory docked at PortMiami Saturday morning, an 8-year-old passenger fell several floors, sustaining fatal injuries, according to Miami-Dade police.
The girl, whose identity has yet to be released, fell to the lower deck of the ship’s interior atrium. The distance she fell was undetermined, Miami Fire Rescue Captain Ignatius Carroll said, but could have been 25 to 50 feet.
Carroll said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue originally received the call after 8 a.m. and Miami Fire Rescue responded to help. When Miami Fire Rescue arrived, Carroll said, Miami-Dade rescue workers were performing CPR on the girl. Miami Fire Rescue took the girl to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she died.
Miami-Dade police, which is handling the investigation, said “The ship has been turned over to Carnival Cruise Lines personnel to resume normal operations.”
