Two killed in Texas shooting
AFP, Houston
A shooting killed two people and wounded at least seven while they were filming a music video in the US state of Texas, authorities said Saturday.
“We are now at 9 total gunshot wound victims: 2 were confirmed deceased at scene, 1 was critical, the others remain hospitalized,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.
Small plane crashes in Louisiana,
five dead
AP, Lafayette
Five people are dead after a small plane crashed near a post office in southern Louisiana on Saturday, authorities said. Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit told KLFY-TV that the aircraft was an eight-passenger plane. He said there was one survivor in addition to the five fatalities. Three people on the ground were transported to the hospital. The report said a nearby Walmart store was evacuated as a precaution.
5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration north
of NYC
AP, Monsey
A man attacked a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home north of New York City late Saturday, stabbing and wounding five people before fleeing in a vehicle, police said.
The attack appeared to be the latest in a string targeting Jews in the region, including a massacre at a kosher grocery store in New Jersey earlier this month. Police said the stabbings happened at around 10 p.m. in Monsey, one of several Hudson Valley towns that have seen an influx in large numbers of Hasidic Jews in recent years.
One dead, one
missing in
cyclone-battered Fiji
AFP, Wellington
Tropical Cyclone Sarai was moving slowly away from Fiji Sunday, leaving one person dead and another missing along with more than 2,500 people in emergency shelters.
The cyclone damaged houses, crops and trees, cut power and forced the cancellation of several international flights, stranding holidaymakers visiting the island nation that’s a major tourist draw.
