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  • BREAKING: Police, local hunters waste four suspected kidnappers in Abraka, recover AK-47 rifle(Photos)

    BREAKING: Police, local hunters waste four suspected kidnappers in Abraka, recover AK-47 rifle(Photos)

    In a major security breakthrough, a joint team of the Nigeria Police Force and local security groups has neutralized four suspected kidnappers during a daring early-morning operation in Abraka, Delta State.

    The coordinated raid, carried out at approximately 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday, was the result of actionable intelligence regarding the activities of a notorious kidnapping syndicate operating along the Abraka railway axis.

    According to a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Police Command, SP Edale Bright, the operation involved officers from the Abraka Police Patrol Team working in synergy with local hunters, vigilantes, and anti-cult volunteers.

    The team engaged the suspected kidnappers in a fierce gun battle, which resulted in the death of four suspects. Others reportedly fled the scene with gunshot wounds.

    During the operation, operatives recovered an AK-47 rifle and 13 rounds of live ammunition from the scene.

    A preliminary investigation has linked one of the deceased suspects to a recent abduction case. The victim, who was rescued shortly before the operation, positively identified the suspect as the leader of the gang responsible for his kidnapping.

    The Commissioner of Police, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, commended the bravery and coordination of the operatives involved. He urged them to sustain the momentum and reiterated the Command’s commitment to strengthening community-police partnerships in the ongoing fight against crime.

    CP Olufemi also called on residents to remain vigilant and cooperate with security agencies by reporting any suspicious activities. The public can reach the Command’s control room through the following emergency numbers: 08036684974, 08114895600, and 08025666914.

  • Brussels shooting: Suspected gunman who killed two Swedes dies after being shot by police – Report

    Brussels shooting: Suspected gunman who killed two Swedes dies after being shot by police – Report

    A 45-year-old Tunisian suspected of killing two Swedish football fans in Brussels has died after being shot by police in a cafe on Tuesday, Belgian media said.

    The man, who was shot in the chest, died in hospital from his wounds, media said.

    There was no immediate official confirmation of his death.

    The shooting comes at a time of heightened security concerns in some European countries linked to the Israeli-Hamas conflict, though a Belgian federal prosecutor said there was no evidence that the attacker had any link to the recently renewed conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants.

    Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said earlier the wounded man was suspected of being the gunman.

    She also said she could not rule out that he had had accomplices.

    Two Swedish nationals were shot dead and a third one was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online.

    The suspect fled the scene after the shooting as a football match between Belgium and Sweden was about to start, triggering a massive manhunt and prompting Belgium to raise its terror alert to the highest level.

    “The weapon with which the attacks were committed has been found this morning where the man was apprehended in (the Brussels borough of) Schaerbeek.

    “That makes the likelihood that the perpetrator has been caught bigger,” Verlinden told VRT broadcaster.

    “We are checking fingerprints to be 100 per cent sure.”

    Federal prosecutors said they could not yet confirm the identity of the person shot but the Belgian capital’s mayor Philippe Close told BFM TV: “It seems indeed the suspect has been neutralised.”

    Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called Monday’s shooting a brutal “terrorist attack”.

    “Last night three people left for what was supposed to be a wonderful soccer party. Two of them lost their lives in a brutal terrorist attack,” De Croo told a news conference.

    “The perpetrator targeted specifically Swedish supporters who were in Brussels to attend a Red Devils soccer match. Two Swedish compatriots passed away. A third person is recovering from severe injuries,” de Croo said.

    Belgium was hosting Sweden in a Euro 2024 qualifying match on Monday evening. The match was abandoned at halftime.

    The country has raised the security alert status of its capital city to the highest level, with increased police presence, particularly for Swedish people and institutions, and warned the public to be extra vigilant and avoid unnecessary travel.

    A man who identified himself as a member of Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online.

    The attacker, who unsuccessfully sought asylum in Belgium in November 2019, was known to police in connection with people smuggling, Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne told a news conference.

    Sweden’s Sapo security police, who in August raised their terrorism alert to the second-highest level and warned of an increase in threats against Swedes at home and abroad, said they were in contact with their international counterparts.

    “We are in a serious situation … Sweden has (over time) ended up in an increasingly clear focus of violent Islamist extremism,” a Sapo spokesperson said in a statement.

    The suspected gunman, calling himself Abdesalem Al Guilani, claimed in a video on social media that he was a fighter for Allah.

    Video footage of the attack posted on the Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper website showed a man in an orange jacket on a scooter at a street intersection with a rifle first firing five shots, then following people fleeing into a building before firing again.

    The newspaper said on Tuesday that police were looking for an accomplice who filmed the attack.

    According to a media transcript of the video message recorded by the self-declared perpetrator, he said he had killed Swedes to take revenge in the name of Muslims.

    The European Commission, which is based in Brussels, has urged staff to work from home. Some schools were closed.

    Belgium has been the target of several Islamist attacks over recent years, the deadliest being the 2016 attack on Brussels airport and the city’s metro, in which 32 people died.

    Several of the Islamist gunmen who targeted Paris in a 2015 attack that killed 130 people were Belgian or living in Brussels.

  • Gunman storms Brazil school, kills one, injures another

    Gunman storms Brazil school, kills one, injures another

    A gunman stormed a school in Brazil and opened fire killing one student and leaving one severely injured before being arrested by police operatives in the country,

    It was gathered that the gunman is an old student of the school located in Southern Brazil.

    The ex-student arrived at the school in the Londrina metropolitan area saying he needed a transcript, but took out a gun once inside and began shooting, said authorities in the state of Parana.

    Brazilian media reports said the shooter was 21.

    A 16 year old female student was killed, and a male student taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, the state security ministry said in a statement, adding that the attacker had been detained.

    President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva expressed “sadness and outrage” at the attack.

    “Another young life taken away by hate and violence, something we can no longer tolerate in our schools or our society,” he wrote on Twitter.

    Brazil, where school attacks were once a rarity, has seen an increase in such assaults recently.

    In April, an attacker killed four young children with a hatchet at a school and daycare center in the southern city of Blumenau.

    That incident shocked the nation and prompted the Lula administration to announce a series of measures to increase security at schools and tackle content seen as promoting school violence on social media.

    Brazil’s deadliest school shooting was in 2011, when a man opened fire at his former elementary school in Realengo, outside Rio de Janeiro, killing 12 children and then himself.

    AFP

  • Gunman commits suicide after killing 9 in school shooting

    Gunman commits suicide after killing 9 in school shooting

    Russian officials on Monday reported that a gunman killed nine people, including five children at a school in Russia before committing suicide.

    The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, was unclear.

    The Udmurtia branch of the interior ministry said the body of the gunman was discovered by police at the scene.

    Russia’s Investigative Committee said the attacker had killed nine people before committing suicide.

    The victims included five children, two teachers and two security guards, it said.

    Russia has seen several school shootings in recent years.

    In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan.

    In April 2022, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide.

  • Gunman kills 3 tenants, set fire to lure them

    Gunman kills 3 tenants, set fire to lure them

    A gunman, who shot five other tenants and set fire to a house to lure them out, has been fatally shot by police officers.

     

    It was gathered that the gunman was evicted from a Houston apartment building and shot five other tenants, killing three of them, Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said.

     

    The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston.

     

    Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.

     

    The gunman opened fire, possibly with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the house, Finner said. Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, he said.

     

    The man then opened fire as the firefighters battled the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers spotted the prone gunman and shot him dead, Finner said.

     

    No identities have been released, and Finner said no firefighters or officers were wounded.

     

    “I’ve seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again,” Finner said. “We just ask that the community come together.”

     

    A neighbor, Robin Ahrens, exolained that he heard what he initially thought were fireworks as he prepared for work.

     

    “I’m just fortunate that I didn’t go outside because he probably would have shot me too,” he stated.

     

    He said the shooter, who had colon cancer, was behind on his rent, jobless and was recently notified that he was being evicted.

     

    “Something must have just hit him in the last couple of days really hard to where he just didn’t care. And that’s why he did what he did. … Nothing else you can really do when you are at that point,” Ahrens added.

  • Nigerian lawmaker kills gunman in midnight attack

    Nigerian lawmaker kills gunman in midnight attack

    Gunmen stormed the home of a House of Representatives member, Abdullahi Balarabe Salame, Friday midnight.

    They attacked his residence in the Bado area of Sokoto around 3am.

    Salame, who represents Gwadabawa/Illela federal constituency, revealed that he killed one of the assailants.

    “I was attacked in my house in Sokoto by armed robbers. But by Allah’s powers, I was able to shoot and kill one, and injured some”, he said.

    The lawmaker also shared photos of the foiled attack.

    Salame, a former Speaker of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, is a 2023 governorship aspirant.

     

    “They came to destroy him. Allah (SWT) did not give them the opportunity because Allah (SWT) promised to protect anyone who stands for truth and trust.

    “This attack is not the first time. It has been done to the people who stand because the society is facing this kind of challenge”, a supporter, Bilal Goronyo wrote on Facebook.

    Sokoto State Police Command confirmed the incident.

     

    The spokesman, ASP Muhammad Sadiq said the robbery attempt was thwarted by the swift response of the joint metropolitan Police Patrol.

    Sadiq noted that an investigation had commenced and assured that operatives were on the trail of the gang.

    “The command also calls for calm and enjoins residents of Sokoto to promptly tender any useful information that could speed up the arrest of the perpetrators or help the ongoing investigation”, he said.

     

     

  • Trump evacuated from White House briefing room as gunman shoots sporadically

    Trump evacuated from White House briefing room as gunman shoots sporadically

    U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from the White House briefing room on Monday shortly after a shooting outside the fence surrounding the complex.

    Trump returned to the media room after several minutes and said a person had been shot by law enforcement and to the hospital.

    He said he understood the suspect had been armed.

    “It was a shooting outside of the White House,” Trump said.

    “It seems to be very well under control. … But there was an actual shooting, and somebody has been taken to the hospital. I don’t know the condition of the person.”

    He said the shooting was near the fence at the edge of the White House grounds.

    Nobody else was wounded in the shooting, Trump said. He praised the Secret Service response and said the agency would have more details on the event later.

    “There were no details – we just found out just now,” Trump told reporters.

    The Secret Service did not immediately respond to queries about the incident.

    Later, the US Secret Service said in a statement that a USSS officer, along with a “male subject”, was hospitalized after the shooting outside of the White House premises.

    According to the statement, the White House complex has not been breached during the incident. The investigation is still ongoing.

  • Gunman kills six in hospital waiting room, commits suicide moments after

    Gunman kills six in hospital waiting room, commits suicide moments after

    A gunman who opened fire today in the Technical University hospital in Ostrava in the Czech Republic killing six people and seriously injuring two others shot himself when police tracked him down.

    Czech Radio’s flagship station Radiožurnál identified the man as Citrad V., a 42-year-old man from Opava. He was a construction engineer whose boss said had become convinced “he was seriously ill and no-one wanted to treat him”.

    The suspect entered the building at around 7am Tuesday morning in the Czech city of Ostrava and opened fire in the trauma unit waiting room at close range, aiming at victim’s heads and necks.

    A manhunt was launched with patients and staff evacuated from the building as armed police swarmed the area and put the building on lockdown.

    Authorities advised ‘maximum possible caution’ as the man was ‘armed and dangerous’ after he fled the scene in a silver Renault car.

    The Czech gunman, Citrad V

    When officers cornered the 42-year-old suspect around three hours after the massacre, he shot himself in the head while sitting in his vehicle, police said.

    Officers hunting the gunman asked the public for help in identifying him by posting on Twitter a CCTV image of him walking the hospital corridors.

    The suspect allegedly shot people at close range as they sat waiting in the trauma ward of the Faculty Hospital in Ostrava, a steel hub located around 190 miles (300 kilometres) east of Prague.

    Some nurses were seen hiding behind parked cars as the shooting unfolded and the building had to be evacuated while police boosted security across the country.

    A witnesses described the moment the shooter walked in and began firing before reloading his weapon.

    She told TV Nova: ‘He came into the waiting room and started firing at the people waiting there before the surgery. When he fired the magazine, he reloaded the gun and fired again.’

    The number of people killed was initially said to be four with two injured, but that figure quickly rose to six dead, Health Minister Adam Vojtech told Czech Radio today.

    Four victims were pronounced dead at the scene and two others succumbed to the injuries they suffered, local media reported.

  • Gunman kills four, injures one in Chicago

    Gunman kills four, injures one in Chicago

    Chicago police said four of the five people critically injured by a gunman on Saturday died. One is still critically injured.

    The shooting occurred at an apartment building on Chicago’s Northwest Side,around 5,30 pm police said.

    The shooter, a 67 year-old man has been arrested.

    First Deputy Superintendent Anthony Riccio said the man has a history of issues with his neighbors.

    Riccio said the man first went into an apartment and shot three men and a woman as they ate dinner. The man then went to a separate unit in the building and shot another woman. Police say one victim is in critical condition.

    A weapon was recovered. Riccio said the man had a history of complaints from other residents but investigators “don’t know what set him off.”

    So far, five persons have been killed and 12 have been injured in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

    In the second deadly shooting of the weekend, a 30-year-old man was fatally shot on Saturday evening in the 7500 block of South Dobson, according to police. The victim and a 30-year-old woman were reportedly sitting in a vehicle when two men approached them and fired shots, NBC Chicago reported.

    The female victim sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh, and went to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition. The male victim suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and died at the scene. Detectives were investigating as of Saturday night.

    Here are the other shootings that have happened as of Saturday night, according to NBC

    Friday –

    – At approximately 8:38 p.m., a 30-year-old man was shot while on the sidewalk in the 4600 block of West Barry, according to Chicago police. The victim said two unknown men exited a vehicle and fired shots. The victim sustained one gunshot wound to the back, and was transported to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital in stable condition.

    Saturday –

    – A 23-year-old woman was shot while riding in a vehicle at approximately 1:51 a.m. in the 1700 block of West 51st, police said. The victim was shot by an unknown man who was walking nearby. The victim was driven to a nearby fire station, and went to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the face. The victim was reported to be in serious condition, according to police.

    – In the 8200 block of South Peoria at approximately 1:50 a.m., a 40-year-old man was shot in the lower backside while walking, police confirmed. The suspect said he didn’t see the offender or know where the shots came from. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in stable condition.

    – At approximately 5:52 a.m. in the 1600 block of South California, police discovered a 17-year-old boy who had been shot after responding to a ShotSpotter Alert, police said

    The victim sustained gunshot wounds to both legs, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.

    – A 19-year-old man was shot at approximately 2:46 p.m. in the 1000 block of North Springfield, police said. The victim sustained a graze wound to his lower left leg, and refused medical attention.

    – At approximately 3:56 p.m. in the 400 block of North Mayfield, a 22-year-old woman was shot by an offender driving a dark-colored vehicle, police said. The victim was shot in the left knee during an argument with the suspect, and went to Mount Sinai Hospital in stable condition. Police recovered a weapon from the scene.

    – In the 5100 block of West Division at approximately 5:13 p.m., a 36-year-old man was shot while standing in a funeral home’s parking lot, according to police. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh, and was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital in stable condition.

    – A 26-year-old man and 14-year-old boy were shot at approximately 5:54 p.m. while walking in the 8600 block of South Elizabeth, according to police. An unknown offender approached the victims from behind, and fired shots at both of them. The 26-year-old man was last reported to be in good condition while the 14-year-old boy was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in stable condition.

    – At approximately 6:39 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot while at a park in the 10400 block of South Green, police said. The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the leg, and was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition.

  • Gunman shoots 2 guests at wedding

    Gunman shoots 2 guests at wedding

    Wedding guests “gang-tackled” a man who opened fire and injured two people Saturday morning at a wedding ceremony at a church in Pelham, New Hampshire, according to police.

    The shooting occurred at New England Pentecostal Church in Pelham, a city of 13,000 in southeast New Hampshire near the Massachusetts border.

    Pelham police chief Joseph Roark said the shooter is now in custody.

    “From my understanding, they basically gang-tackled him,” Roark said.

    Police said the third person sustained minor injuries and was also taken to a nearby hospital.

    Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts confirmed that one patient had been admitted shortly after the incident and then transferred to a hospital in Boston by Saturday afternoon.

    Roark said the suspect, armed with a handgun, arrived after the wedding had begun. Police estimated that about 40 people were in attendance.

    “This does not seem to be a random event,” Roark said.

    Police did not release any information about the wedding parties or their relationship to the gunman.

    The hospital could not provide information on the patient’s condition.

    Two other victims were taken to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, police said.