A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians.
More than 300 other people were wounded, officials said.
The explosion occurred in the parking area of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park close to children’s swings. The park is a popular site for members of Lahore’s Christian community, many of whom had gone there to celebrate the Easter weekend holiday.
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Three first-grade girls at an Anchorage, Alaska, elementary school allegedly planned to kill a fellow classmate using silica gel — the “do not eat” pouches packaged with vitamins and electronics, according to the Alaska Dispatch News.
All three students were caught and suspended from Winterberry Charter School. They still face “significant consequences,” Principal Shanna Mall explained in an email to parents of the 32 first graders in the class.
The girls had reportedly planned to take silica gel packets, which are labeled “Do Not Consume,” from their lunchtime seaweed and place them in a classmate’s lunch on March 22. They didn’t realize that silica gel — a drying agent used to keep packaged goods fresh — is actually not poisonous.
Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995.
A special U.N. court in The Hague, Netherlands, found the 70-year-old guilty of genocide over his responsibility for the Srebrenica massacre, in which more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed by Bosnian Serb forces under his command.
Karadzic, former leader of the breakaway Serb Republic in Bosnia, is the highest-ranking political figure to have been brought to justice over the bitter ethnic conflicts that erupted with the collapse of the former Yugoslavia.
An Ohio woman who allegedly punished her 4-year-old step son with scalding hot water was charged with a felony count of child endangerment after the boy was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead.
The Warren County Coroner’s office ruled 4-year-old Austin Cooper’s death a homicide, and further charges could be coming, police in Franklin, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati, said.
The boy’s step mother, Anna Ritchie, 25, was arrested Wednesday and still in jail early Friday on $350,000 bond, police said.
The DEA has arrested a man they say gave heroin to a pregnant woman, killing both the woman and her unborn child.
Anthony Vita of Virginia Beach, Virginia, faces charges of dealing drugs in the Syracuse, New York, area, and causing the overdose death of 24-year-old Morgan Axe of Camillus, New York, who was five months pregnant when her family found her dead next to a syringe and a bag of heroin last November.
The arrest comes as local and federal law enforcement agencies are rushing to address the rise of heroin overdoses and addiction throughout the Northeast.
Fugitive Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam was captured in a terror raid in Belgium Friday, along with four others, Belgian government officials said.
Abdeslam, 26, was nabbed in the Brussels suburb of Molenbook after “intense and detailed work” by security forces, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said in a press conference.
Abdeslam had been on the run for more than four months and was believed to be the final suspect at large in the terror attacks that killed 130 people. Another man, Monir Ahmed Alaaj, and three members of a family that allegedly hid Abdeslam were also arrested, the Belgium federal prosecutor’s office said.
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Paris Attacks Suspect Salah Abdeslam Captured in Belgian Terror Raid
A customer at a Washington state 7-Eleven shot and killed a masked man who charged into the convenience store swinging a hatchet on Sunday morning, according to authorities.
The 60-year-old customer was drinking a coffee around 5:30 a.m. (8:30 a.m. ET) when the hatchet-wielding man came into the store in Burien, about 10 miles south of Seattle, according to the King County Sheriff’s office.
The suspect first tried to attack the customer and then went after a clerk behind the counter, wounding him in the stomach, the sheriff’s office said.
Gulchekhra Bobokulova made international headlines on Monday when she was found outside a metro stop in Moscow waving the severed head of a 4-year-old girl she had been babysitting. Bobokulova, who pled guilty to the crime, left the decapitated body in the girl’s family apartment, which the nanny had set on fire.
Bobokulova, a Muslim from Uzbekistan and mother of three, appeared in a Moscow court Wednesday, after which she told reporters that “Allah ordered” her to kill the girl, according to the Independent.
Now, suddenly, Bobokulova’s faith — and not the reports that she appeared mentally unstable or is allegedly schizophrenic — has become the central part of her story. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or KPRF, are now holding her up as an example of why the country should move toward an unwavering anti-immigration stance.
A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot in his mother, an apparently staunch pro-gun advocate, in the back in north Florida on Tuesday, according to local deputies.
The woman, who has been identified as Jamie Gilt, 31, told Putnam County police officials that her son was sitting in the back of her pickup truck when he picked up a .45-caliber handgun and shot her through the back of the seat. A deputy on patrol approached the car on Tuesday afternoon, as it had stopped and looked “awkward,” and found her shot in the front seat.
Gilt was taken to a hospital in Gainesville, Florida, where she remained in stable condition on Tuesday afternoon. The 4-year-old boy is with family members and the Department of Children and Families has been notified, according to officials.
A mother tracked her kidnapped daughter using the Find My iPhone app, allowing police to find the teenager in a McDonald’s parking lot more than 150 miles away.
Pennsylvania State Police were “notified by the victim’s mother that her daughter had been taken against her will by her ex-boyfriend” on Tuesday, according to a statement. “The victim’s mother related that she had been receiving text messages from her daughter requesting help. The mother was able to track the victim’s cellphone by utilizing the iCloud [and] Find My iPhone app.”
The 18-year-old victim was found in a car in Milesburg, Pennsylvania — around 150 miles east of Pittsburgh.
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