The following is a chronology of major violent rampage cases with multiple victims in Japan: Sept. 8, 1999: Man attacks pedestrians with a knife and hammer in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, killing two and injuring six. Sept. 29, 1999: Man kills five people ...
Sri Lankan ex-defense chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa says he will run for president, tackle radical Islam
Sri Lanka's former wartime defense chief, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said on Friday he would run for president in elections this year and would stop the spread of Islamist extremism by rebuilding the intelligence service and surveilling citizens. Gotabaya, as he is popularly known, is the younger ...
Sri Lankan forces raid Islamist hideout; 15 dead after three cornered bombers blow selves up
Fifteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said Saturday. The three men set off explosives, also killing ...
Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings revised down by over 100 due to 'double counting' of body parts
A dramatic revision of the death toll in Sri Lanka's Easter bombings, which has been cut by more than 100, is a grim indicator of the power of the deadly blasts. The force of the explosions so badly mutilated bodies that parts of victims were ...
Terror stalks Mali massacre village amid fears attackers will return
Eleven-year-old Amy raises her left arm to show where a bullet grazed her side, and from deep within her, a boundless distress comes out in great sobs. The girl's life was plunged into hell on Saturday when gun- and machete-toting men entered her village in ...
A second student who survived 2018 Florida school massacre reportedly commits suicide
A second student from the Florida high school where 17 were shot dead in 2018 has committed suicide within a week, U.S. media reported Sunday. The Miami Herald said police in Coral Springs told the paper that a current student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...
As violence escalates, attack by ethnic militia on central Mali villages leaves 115 dead
An attack by members of an ethnic militia on three villages in central Mali claimed 115 lives, the latest clash in an increasingly violent conflict that is fueled by Islamist extremism. Another 46 were injured in the attack on ethnic Fulani villages on Saturday morning ...
Stunned family members on Thursday prepared to bury the eight victims of a school shooting in Brazil, along with the two attackers who carried out the violence, and grappled to understand why the bloodshed took place. A collective wake for six of the victims was ...
U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant arrested for mass murder plot targeting Democrats and media figures
A U.S. Coast Guard officer who espoused white supremacist views and drafted a target list of Democratic politicians and prominent media figures has been arrested on firearms and drug charges. Christopher Paul Hasson, an admirer of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, was arrested last week ...
U.N. finds at least 15 mass graves and hundreds of sets of remains in Congo after December violence
At least 15 mass graves have been found in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of three days of ethnic bloodshed in December, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s MONUSCO mission in Congo said on Tuesday. Earlier in January, the United Nations estimated that ...
At least five killed in Florida bank shooting and gunman, 21, arrested: police
At least five people were killed on Wednesday in a shooting inside a bank in a small central Florida town, and the suspect is in custody, authorities said. The 21-year-old suspect, identified as Zephen Xaver, walked into the SunTrust Bank in Sebring, a town of ...
Drug lord 'El Chapo' ordered murder of man who wouldn't shake his hand, witness testifies
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a ruthless killer who ordered the murder of a man who had refused to shake his hand at a meeting, a prosecution witness told jurors at Guzman's U.S. trial on Monday. Jesus Zambada, the brother of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, ...
