Aint No Right

Bandit72 wrote:Someone (possibly from the religion of peace) has driven at high speed along Westminster Bridge. 1 women dead, many injured. 1 attacker dead.

Squee wrote:just awful. I can imagine a lot of young kids there. Now traumatized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/worl ... p=cur&_r=0

4 U.S. Women Hit by Acid Attack in France
By AURELIEN BREEDEN SEPT. 17, 2017

PARIS — Four American college students were attacked with acid by a woman on Sunday at a train station in southern France, injuring at least two of them, according to the local police.

The assailant, a 41-year-old woman, was quickly arrested in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. The police prefecture said they were not treating the attack on the American women as a terrorist assault.

The suspect has “a psychiatric history,” a spokeswoman for the police prefecture in Marseille said. “For now, nothing suggests that this was a terrorist attack.”

The four American women, all in their early 20s, were in front of the Saint-Charles train station when a woman threw hydrochloric acid on them shortly before 11 a.m., the police said.

Two of the women were burned, and the other two appeared to have escaped injury, but they were in a state of shock, according to police. All four were treated at a hospital on Sunday.

Boston College said in a statement on Sunday that the four women were students at the college and were enrolled in study-abroad programs. They were identified as Courtney Siverling, Charlotte Kaufman, Michelle Krug and Kelsey Kosten, all juniors.

Nick Gozik, who directs Boston College’s Office of International Programs, said in an email that the women had “recently arrived to start the fall semester.”

In the college’s statement, he added, “It appears that the students are fine, considering the circumstances, though they may require additional treatment for burns.”

The prosecutor’s office could not be reached for comment, but told France 3 that one of the women had been hit in the eye with acid and had trouble seeing.

France has been on high alert for terrorism since 2015, after a series of attacks killed more than 230 people. There have also been a number of attacks by psychologically unstable residents who have sometimes imitated terrorist acts, officials say.

La Provence, the main local newspaper, quoted police sources as saying that after the attack, the suspect had displayed pictures of herself with burns on her body. The prosecutor’s office said the suspect also had a criminal record for violent theft, according to France 3.

In 2013, two American women, Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18, who were teaching on the island of Zanzibar, were attacked with acid by two men on a moped who stopped, smiled and doused them, severely burning their faces, chests and hands, before speeding away.

In London this year, two teenage boys went on a violent, 72-hour spree in the northeast, spraying acid on five people, the authorities said. The teenagers were arrested on suspicion of robbery and of causing grievous bodily harm.

perkana wrote:

kv wrote:Sorry Wally...chin up bud

Wow this thread sucks lately eh?

Let's get back to every day annoying...like traffic sucked or my neighbor is too loud.... geez

Like an 8.1 earthquake? I'm still a bit in shock. The moment you come home and 3 days later, wham bam, welcome back.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/856 ... th-country

Mexico City earthquake: Huge 7.1 magnitude quake hits just DAYS after biggest in century

A HUGE earthquake has struck southern Mexico, shaking buildings and sending people fleeing in terror.

By ROSS LOGAN
PUBLISHED: 19:26, Tue, Sep 19, 2017 | UPDATED: 20:19, Tue, Sep 19, 2017

The US geological survey said it hit five miles southeast of Atencingo in the state of Puebla, about 100 miles south of the capital Mexico City, at a depth of 32 miles.

Buildings in Mexico City shook as the quake rumbled below, and office workers fled into the street for fear of their lives.

Pictures shared online show at least one building has partially collapsed and several have been severely damaged.

The quake comes days after the country was hit by an 8.1 magnitude tremor, the biggest to hit Mexico in a century, killing at least 98 people.

It also comes on the 32nd anniversary of a 1985 quake that killed thousands of people and led to sweeping changes to safety rules and disaster preperation.

Just two hours before the quake struck, people had been taking part in evacuation drills for the anniversary of the quake.

Video footage shows a huge cloud of thick dust and smoke filling the streets as people try to make their way to safety.

The number of casualties is not yet known.

Adrian Wilson, a photographer from New York City, was in Mexico City when the quake hit.

He told CNN: "I was having lunch when the floor gently rocked as if a big truck went by.

"It then amplified in waves and the whole room started shaking.

"The building is from the 1930s and just survived a big earthquake, so I knew I would be OK."

The Mexican stock exchange has suspended trading following the quake.

Mexico airport has also suspended all operations.

Fears that the quake could cause a tsunami in the Pacific ocean have been dismissed by officials from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, who said it was too far inland to generate such a wave.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/edm ... ist-attack

Police say terrorism charges are pending against a suspect arrested after a series of violent attacks that saw an Edmonton police officer stabbed and several pedestrians run down by a truck. . . .

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 22267001/#

MESQUITE, Nev. — Police have identified the man accused of killing at least 58 people and wounding 515 in a Las Vegas shooting rampage . . .