Man kills 10 family members in marriage dispute in Pakistan

Authorities say a man in Pakistan, angered by a rejected marriage proposal to his cousin, has killed 10 members of his extended family after years earlier killing four others over it.
Police officer Shahid Khan says the attack happened early Sunday in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in its mountainous northwest. Khan says Gul Ahmed, the man suspected of carrying out the attack, is still on the run.
Khan says Ahmed shot dead his uncle, aunt and eight cousins — including Naveeda Bibi, who he wanted to marry. In November 2014, Khan says Ahmed also shot dead his parents and two brothers over wanting to marry her. He was never arrested by police for the earlier killings.

 

Kenya bombs Al Shabab targets amid outcry over response to Garissa attack

The Kenyan government says it has struck back against Al Shabab, bombing two of the Islamist group's Somali camps in retaliation for its deadly attack Thursday on a university in the northeastern town of Garissa. But some experts say the danger to Kenya is less the terrorist group itself than the holes in the country's security thanks to rampant corruption.

A Kenyan spokesman said early Monday that the Air Force had bomb two sites within Somalia   "because according to information we have, those [Al Shabab] fellows are coming from there to attack Kenya," the Guardian reports. The damage done to the two camps, both in the Gedo region bordering Kenya, could not be ascertained because of cloud cover over the sites, the spokesman said.

Al Shabab claimed responsibility last week for the attack on Garissa College University, in which four gunmen killed at least 148 students. Kenyan security forces eventually killed the gunmen. Al Shabab said that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya's ongoing military activity in Somalia, where its Army is aiding the internationally-backed Somali government in rooting out the Islamic group.

 

Kenyan warplanes attack suspected militants position

Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem

Thousands of pilgrims commemorate Jesus’s crucifixion throughout the capital’s Old City

 

Catholic worshipers carry a wooden cross during the Good Friday procession along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) on April 3, 2015 in Jerusalem's Old City.

 

Christian pilgrims from around the world on Friday joined Palestinian co-religionists in a solemn Easter procession through the walled Old City of Jerusalem. 

Some carried massive wooden crosses from the Monastery of the Flagellation along the cobbled Via Dolorosa on the way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Catholic and Orthodox Christians believe Jesus was crucified, entombed and later resurrected on what is now celebrated as Easter Sunday.

“It’s splendid. It’s interesting because back in Singapore at least, the Easter celebrations are not so vibrant,” pilgrim Dominic told AFP.

Laura Samoa, from Ivory Coast, said it was if Christ was himself present.

“The Easter celebration was wonderful,” she said. “You felt like if he is still here again. So, it was wonderful.”

Also on Friday, Jews in Israel and around the world begin celebrating the week-long Passover festival, commemorating the Biblical exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

Kenya attack: 147 dead in Garissa University assault

At least 147 people, mostly students, have been killed in an assault by al-Shabab militants on a university in north-eastern Kenya yesterday.

Heavily armed attackers stormed Garissa University early on Thursday, killing two security guards then firing indiscriminately on students.
Four of the gunman were eventually surrounded in a dormitory, and died when their suicide vests detonated.
It is the deadliest attack yet by al-Shabab.
The militants singled out Christians and shot them, witnesses said.
More than 500 students managed to escape, 79 of whom were injured. A fifth gunman has reportedly been arrested.

Eric Wekesa, a student at Garissa, told Reuters he locked himself in his room before eventually fleeing.
"What I managed to hear from them is 'We came to kill or finally be killed.' That's what they said."
"It was horrible, there was shooting everywhere," another student, Augustine Alanga told the BBC's Newsday programme
He said it was "pathetic" that the university was only guarded by two police officers.
 Attack as it happened



Nine critically injured students were airlifted to the capital Nairobi for treatment, disaster management officials said.
But each student had been accounted for by the end of the evacuation.
An overnight curfew has been implemented in Garissa and three other counties in Kenya.

Sailor missing for 66 days rescued off N.C. coast- Louis Jordan

The Coast Guard received a message from the 1,085-foot, German-flagged ship Houston Express at around 1:30 p.m. The crew reported that they had spotted a man and a sailboat about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C., and that they had taken him aboard.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., around 3:40 p.m.
The helicopter met the Houston Express, hoisted the man aboard and transported him to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk.

Utah baby found alive in river 14 hours after car crash

A baby girl has been found alive in a car more than 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah.

The 18-month-old was discovered hanging upside down above water in her car seat by a fisherman on Saturday afternoon, police said.
She was rushed to a hospital in Salt Lake City, where her condition has been upgraded from critical to stable.
The toddler's 25-year-old mother, named as Lynn Groesbeck from Springville, was found dead in the driver's seat.
 Investigators believe the vehicle careered into the Spanish Fork River after striking a cement barrier at about 22:30 local time (04:30 GMT) on Friday.
A fisherman raised the alarm at 12:30 local time (18:30 GMT) the next day, after he saw the girl dangling above the water as it flowed through the car.


Officials later removed the car from the river
Three police officers and four firefighters who entered the river to rescue the child were later treated in hospital for hypothermia.
Police said they would not be releasing any further details unless the baby's condition changed. The girl's name was not released.

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