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  • Elementary school boy shoots teacher in United States of America

    Elementary school boy shoots teacher in United States of America

    A teacher in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia  was on Friday shot by a six year old boy.

    The classroom teacher got severely injured in the process, Police said.

    Police confirmed that no students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newport News.

    “The individual is a six-year-old student. He is right now in police custody,” local police chief Steve Drew told a news conference, adding that “this was not an accidental shooting.”

    Police said that the victim was a teacher in her 30s and her injuries were believed to be life-threatening.

    “I’m in shock, and I’m disheartened,” said the city’s superintendent of schools, George Parker.

    “We need the community’s support to make sure that guns are not available to youth.”

    School shootings plague the United States, with recent tragedies including the killing last May of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old gunman.

    There were an estimated 44,000 gun-related deaths in the United States last year, about half of them murder cases, accidents and self-defence, and half of them suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive database.

  • Seven children killed in Nairobi classroom collapse

    Seven children killed in Nairobi classroom collapse

    Seven primary school children died and dozens more were injured when their classroom collapsed on Monday morning in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, a government spokesman said.

    “So far we can confirm that we have seven fatalities and 57 others are in hospital,” government spokesman Cyrus Oguna said at the scene.

    Hundreds of angry residents of Dagoretti — a poor area where many live in makeshift houses — swarmed around the site where rescuers picked through the rubble of the classroom.

    An AFP reporter at the site said books and desks were strewn through the debris of the semi-permanent structure, made of concrete, iron sheeting and timber. The structure had been partly raised up to add a storey.

    The building collapsed shortly after seven am as pupils entered the classroom.

    “Seven pupils dead, several injured after a classroom collapsed at (Precious) Talent Academy in Dagoretti,” St John Ambulance — whose rescuers were involved in the search and rescue — wrote on Twitter.

     

     

  • Boko Haram: One million houses, 5,000 classrooms, N1.9 trillion properties destroyed in Borno – Official

    The Borno Government on Tuesday said about 1 million houses and public structures were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents in the 27 local government areas of the state.

    The insurgents also destroyed properties worth over N1.9 trillion in the past six years.

    Yerima Saleh, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement, disclosed this at a news conference in Maiduguri.

    Saleh also said that the insurgents razed down 986, 453 residential homes; 5, 335 classrooms, 201 health facilities, 1, 630 water facilities and 726 power distribution stations and transformers.

    He added that 800 public structures such as offices, prisons, police posts and other structures were destroyed by the sect members.

    “The quantum of destruction caused by insurgents is monumental resulting in serious humanitarian crisis.

    “The damage calls for serious intervention from government, development and humanitarian organisations.

    “The destruction has rendered 22 out of the 27 local government council areas uninhabitable,” he said

    To mitigate the problem, the permanent secretary said the state government had established the ministry to facilitate rapid rehabilitation and re-settlement of ravaged communities.

    He said that the ministry had so far rebuilt and rehabilitated public and private buildings in 14 councils in the state.

    He disclosed that the state government had so far constructed about 25, 000 houses in the liberated communities.

    Mr. Saleh said that more than 10,000 houses were reconstructed in Bama, while 7,000 others were completed in Gwoza.

    He listed other projects to include classrooms, clinics, police posts, markets, slaughter slabs, roads, palaces, courts and places of worship in the liberated communities.

    “We are going into total reconstruction and rehabilitation in Bama, Dikwa and Ngala.

    “The projects have reached between 50 and 75 per cent completion in the affected areas,” he said.

    Other projects, he said, were ongoing in Mafa, Dikwa, Ngala, Damboa, Chibok, Askira Uba, Mobar, Biu and Hawul local government areas.

    The permanent secretary reiterated the commitment of the state government to provide humanitarian support services to persons displaced by the insurgency.

    “The state government is collaborating with Federal Government and development organisations to address the humanitarian crisis in the state,” he added.