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Two gang members killed in beach shooting near Cancun resort

CANCUN: Two suspected drug gang members were shot dead on a beachfront near the Mexican resort of Cancun on Thursday, a couple of weeks after two tourists were killed in crossfire at another beach. The attorney general’s office in the

Eight killed, several injured in shooting at Russian university

MOSCOW: A student gunman opened fire at a university in the Russian city of Perm on Monday, killing eight people and injuring six others, law enforcement authorities said. The gunman was detained shortly after the incident  located around 1,300 kilometres

Six people including gunman killed in British town shooting

LONDON: Six people, including a child, were killed in a mass shooting in the city of Plymouth in southwest England on Thursday evening, in an incident described by the British Home Secretary as “shocking”. Two females and three males, including

Gunmen kill two, wound 20 outside Florida concert

MIAMI: Gunmen opened fire on a crowd outside a concert in Florida early on Sunday, killing two people and wounding more than 20, police and media reports said. Three people got out of a white SUV and fired assault-style weapons

Sikh group demands probe of hate bias in Indianapolis shooting

NEW YORK: A leading advocacy group has urge a probe of possible racial or ethnic hatred after half of the eight workers shot  dead at an Indianapolis FedEx facility by a former employee belonged to the Sikh religious community, Law

Ten killed in Colorado supermarket shooting

DENVER: A gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people including a police officer, before being arrested, marking the second deadly US mass shooting in less than a week. Police gave few immediate details of the

Lady Gaga’s dogs stolen in Hollywood shooting

LOS ANGELES: Two French bulldogs belonging to US pop singer Lady Gaga were stolen in Los Angeles after the employee walking them was shot and wounded. Los Angeles police said a gunman had taken the dogs and fled the Hollywood

At least 16 killed in Canada’s worst-ever shooting rampage

HALIFAX: A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in a shooting rampage, federal police said Sunday, the worst case of its kind in Canadian history. The shooter, identified as Gabriel Wortman, aged 51, was

84-year-old man tries to burn mosque in France

BAYONNE: An 84-year-old man and former election candidate for Marine Le Pen’s Right National Rally reportedly tried to burn a mosque and shot two men, on Monday. According to sources, the suspect, named Claude Sinke attacked the mosque when the

Woman among three killed in Sialkot firing incident

SIALKOT: A woman and two men were killed after unknown men opened fire at them in Daska, Sialkot today on Thursday. According to initial reports, the woman was the main target of the gunmen on the Daska-Sambrial road. Two passersby,