News in Brief

Date: 06 November 2022 - 21:57

News ID: ۱۰۸۶۷۲

PENNSYLVANIA (AP/CBS) – A shooting in central Pennsylvania left four people dead including the alleged gunman, authorities say. Lycoming County officials said a female victim was reported early in the day in Jordan Township and responding troopers were told that a man was shooting at vehicles with a rifle, reported. State police said troopers from Bloomsburg found the man “actively firing with a rifle.” The officers “fired shots and the scene was secured,” police said. No police were injured. Coroner Charles Kiessling Jr. told The (Williamsport) Sun-Gazette that a man and two women were killed, along with the suspected gunman. The shooting involved at least two different scenes in the area of routes 239 and 118. No other details about the incident or the victims were immediately released. In another incident, at least 10 people were shot in the area of Kensington and Allegheny in Philadelphia on Saturday night, a report said. Gunshot victims were being rushed to a number of hospitals based on the severity of their injuries, the report by a CBS affiliate news channel said, citing police sources. Details about the victims were not known immediately.

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BUKOBA (Reuters) – Three people have died after a Precision Air’s aircraft crash-landed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania as it attempted to land at Bukoba Airport. According to the state-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, the Precision Air flight carrying 39 passengers made a crash landing into Lake Victoria on Sunday while attempting to reach a nearby airport in Tanzania. At least 26 people were rescued from the plane, the airline said in a statement, adding that no deaths had been confirmed. Flight PW494, which departed from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, “crash landed” into the lake as it was approaching the lakeside city of Bukoba, Precision Air added. The cause was not immediately clear, but the state broadcaster said the incident took place amid storms and heavy rains. A witness told the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) he saw the plane flying unsteadily as it approached the airport in poor visibility conditions, saying it took a turn for the airport but missed and went into the lake. Video and pictures circulating on social media showed the plane almost fully submerged, with only its green and brown-colored tail visible above the water line of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake.

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COTABATO, Philippines (AP) – A homemade bomb went off in a bus and killed a passenger and wounded 10 others in a southern Philippine city on Sunday in an attack authorities suspect may be part of an extortion attempt, officials said. The bus with an unspecified number of passengers was approaching a transport terminal in Tacurong city in Sultan Kudarat province when the bomb went off at the back of the vehicle shortly before noon, police said. Investigators were trying to determine if the attackers were from the same armed group that had staged similar bombings in past years to extort money from the Yellow Bus Line, which operates in key southern cities, military and police officials said. Regional army commander Maj. Gen. Roy Galido said the bus company “has been constantly receiving extortion messages.” The military and police have been working with the bus owners to capture the extortionists, who may have been angered by the bus company’s refusal to pay off, Galido said. Police have blamed the Bangsamoro Freedom Fighters, a small rebel force that has aligned itself with the Daesh group, for similar bus bombings in the past.

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LIMA (AFP) – Thousands of Peruvians have held a protest march in the capital Lima, demanding President Pedro Castillo quit over alleged corruption and economic misrule. The participants packed the streets of Lima on Saturday, prompting the police to use tear gas to prevent them from reaching the parliament and the presidential palace. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The embattled head of state, who took power last year for a five-year term, and his cabinet are under investigation for corruption. The protesters held up national flags and signs emblazoned with anti-government slogans. Similar demonstrations called by political groups and civil associations took place in other cities around the country. “We see a government involved in corruption and Congress doesn’t react,” said Lucas Ghersi, a conservative lawyer who is one of the organizers of the march. Castillo has already survived two impeachment attempts, and is also the target of a complaint by the country’s attorney general, who has accused the president of running a criminal nexus involving his family and allies. He calls his opponents “reactionaries” and “the enemies of people,” denying that his family has committed crimes and saying he is the victim of a campaign to remove him from power. “They will have me until the last day of my term because my people have decided so,” Castillo said earlier in the day from the government palace.

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ISLAMABAD (Al Jazeera) – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his supporters’ “long march” towards the capital demanding early elections will re-start on Tuesday after it was disrupted by an attempt on his life by a gunman. Khan made the remarks in a video broadcast live on social media on Sunday from a hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, where he was receiving treatment after being shot in the leg during the protest march three days earlier. The chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was later discharged from the health facility. “Our march will resume on Tuesday from the place in Wazirabad where I and 11 other people were shot, and where Moazzam was martyred,” Khan announced, citing the name of PTI worker Moazzam Gondal, who was killed in the attack. The 70-year-old said he would not join in person while he recovered from his wounds but will do so when the convoy reaches the city of Rawalpindi.