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  • At least 3 killed, 4 wounded in fresh U.S. airstrikes on Yemen: Houthis

    SANAA – At least three people were killed and four others wounded on Saturday night in fresh U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s capital Sanaa, its outskirts, and other provinces, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported, citing health authorities.

    According to the television, the U.S. military launched 21 airstrikes on Sanaa and its western outskirts, killing two people and wounding two others in the Al-Nahda neighborhood, northern Sanaa. A third one was wounded in a cemetery in the Safiah neighborhood in southern Sanaa.

    In the Bani Matar district in Sanaa’s western outskirts, the airstrikes killed one person and wounded another one, said the Houthi television

    The report did not specify whether the victims were civilians or Houthi operatives.

    The airstrikes on the capital also targeted several other locations, including weapons depots in the Al-Hafa military camp in the Mount Nuqum in eastern Sanaa, and two military sites in northeastern Sanaa, according to Sanaa’s residents.

    The roar of the fighter jets speeding at full throttle could be heard across the capital before and after the strikes hit.

    Ambulances were seen in Sanaa’s streets rushing to the targeted sites as the Houthi-controlled police cordoned off the targeted areas.

    Meanwhile, the U.S. fighter jets conducted 13 airstrikes against the Houthi-controlled Hodeidah Airport and the Navy Base in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, western Yemen, according to the Houthi television and local residents.

    The other four airstrikes targeted Houthi positions in the district of Sirwah, west of Yemen’s central province of Marib. Another four airstrikes targeted a Houthi military position in the Harf Sufian district in the northern province of Amran, said the television.

    The fresh airstrikes came two days after the U.S. airstrikes on the Ras Isa fuel port in the western province of Hodeidah, which killed at least 80 people and wounded 150 others, according to the latest statement by local health authorities.

    XINHUA

  • Israeli soldier killed, 3 seriously injured in N. Gaza

    JERUSALEM – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that one of its soldiers was killed and three others seriously injured in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.

    The killed soldier was G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, a 35-year-old tracker from the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, according to the statement.

    Another IDF tracker and two female soldiers were seriously injured, it added.

    Israel’s Channel 12 News reported that Hamas militants emerged from a hidden tunnel shaft and fired an RPG at an IDF force, injuring the two female soldiers.

    According to the report, after about half an hour, a rescue force arrived at the scene and an explosive device was detonated against it. As a result, Alnasasra was killed, and the other tracker was wounded.

    Earlier on Saturday, the IDF said that its armored forces killed more than 40 Hamas militants in the Rafah area, southern Gaza Strip, over the weekend.

    XINHUA

  • At least 4 dead in prison escape in Chad

    YAOUNDE – At least four people were killed after inmates attempted to escape from a prison in Chad, according to local sources and media reports on Saturday.

    The incident occurred at 9 p.m. local time on Friday at Mongo Prison in central Chad.

    Sources inside the prison said weapons were smuggled into the prison during a protest against poor conditions at the facility. Prisoners then seized the opportunity and broke out of the prison to escape.

    Four prisoners were killed, and several prison guards were injured, security sources were quoted by local media as saying.

    More than 130 prisoners managed to escape, according to the latest figures reported by local media.

    XINHUA

  • 5.9-magnitude quake hits 45 km SW of Malisbeng, Philippines — USGS

    HONG KONG – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted 45 km SW of Malisbeng, Philippines at 1611 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

    The epicenter, with a depth of 17.9 km, was initially determined to be at 5.80 degrees north latitude and 124.11 degrees east longitude.

    XINHUA

  • Death toll in Indian capital building collapse rises to 11

    NEW DELHI – At least 11 people were killed and 11 others injured Saturday after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in the Indian national capital territory of Delhi, police said.

    The building collapsed in Mustafabad area of North East Delhi district in the early hours of Saturday.

    Following the building collapse, teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), fire services, police and locals carried out rescue efforts at the spot to pull out survivors and the dead from the debris.

    A closed-circuit television camera footage revealed that the building collapsed at 2:39 a.m. (local time) on Saturday.

    Reports said 22 occupants who were asleep at that time inside the building got trapped following its collapse.

    Officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi told local media the building was around 20 years old.

    The cause of the building collapse is being ascertained.

    XINHUA

  • 56 killed in Nigeria shooting, AFP reports

    April 19 – Gunmen killed 56 people in central Nigeria, AFP reported on Saturday, citing the governor’s office.

    AFP did not provide any further details.

    REUTERS

  • More than 100 inmates make deadly prison break in Chad

    MONGO, Chad – More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP on Saturday.

    The break-out occurred late Friday when an uprising happened in the high-security penitentiary five kilometers (three miles) from the town of Mongo, in the center of the country.

    “There are around 100 who escaped, three dead and three wounded,” Hassan Souleymane Adam, secretary general of the Guera province in which Mongo is located, said.

    A local Mongo official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said prisoners broke into a manager’s office to steal guns.

    “A shootout with guards ensued, at the same time the governor arrived. He was wounded,” he said.

    The Mongo official confirmed there were three dead, and put the total number of escaped prisoners at 132.

    He said the prisoners revolted after complaining about a lack of food.

    Chad’s Justice Minister Youssouf Tom told AFP by telephone that he was about to fly to region and would be able to give “precise information once I am at Mongo in the coming hours.”

    AN-AFP

  • Former Croatia midfielder Nikola Pokrivač dies in car accident at age 39

    ZAGREB – Nikola Pokrivač, a former Croatia national team midfielder who played at the 2008 European Championship, has died in a car accident, his country’s soccer federation said. He was 39.

    The federation announced that Pokrivač died Friday night in a car accident in the city of Karlovac.

    Pokrivač played for Dinamo Zagreb, Monaco and Salzburg before being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015.

    Pokrivač made 15 appearances for Croatia’s national team.

    Marijan Kustić, president of the Croatian Football Federation, called Pokrivač a “great football player” who “showed great courage in life by overcoming a terrible disease.” He offered condolences to Pokrivač’s family.

    Dinamo said in a statement that Pokrivač was a talented midfielder who played 69 times for the team and participated in four championship titles.

    AN-AP

  • Small plane crashes into Nebraska river and kills 3 on board

    FREMONT, Neb. – Three people died when a small airplane crashed into a river in eastern Nebraska Friday night, authorities said.

    The plane was traveling along the Platte River and crashed into the water south of Fremont at 8:15 p.m., Sgt. Brie Frank of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office said during a news conference.

    The bodies of three people were recovered, Frank confirmed.

    Authorities did not immediately release the identities of the deceased.

    The sheriff’s office said the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board will oversee the investigation near Fremont, located about 37 miles (59.5 kilometers) west of Omaha.

    AP

  • Suspected herders kill at least 17 in Nigeria

    LAGOS – At least 17 people were killed when suspected cattle herders attacked communities in central Nigeria’s Benue State on Thursday, police said, amid a resurgence of deadly clashes between farmers and herders.

    Years of clashes have disrupted food supplies from north-central Nigeria, a significant agricultural area.

    The latest attacks came two days after 11 people were killed in the Otukpo area of Benue and barely a week after gunmen attacked villages and killed more than 50 people in neighbouring Plateau State.

    Since 2019, the clashes have claimed more than 500 lives in the region and forced 2.2 million to leave their homes, according to research firm SBM Intelligence.

    A separate group of suspected herdsmen shot and killed five farmers around Gbagir in Benue’s Ukum Local Government Area, early on Friday, police said.

    The attackers opened fire as police were moving in to confront them, police spokesperson Sewuese Anene said in a statement.

    While officers were engaging the attackers at Ukum, another 12 people were killed in another attack in Logo local council area, about 70 km away, police said.

    REUTERS