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The Daily Reflector, Sunday, January 22, 2012 A MEXICO CITY 6.2 earthquake hits Mexico A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to Tapachula on the border with Guate- mala. The quake broke windows in Tuxtla Gutierrez and sent frightened residents into the streets in cities across Chi- apas. There were no initial reports of major damage, but state Civil Protection au- thorities said they were doing a review throughout the state. The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean about 35 miles southwest of the city of Mapastepec, near the border with Gua- temala. It had a depth of 41 miles. BERN, SWITZERLAND Dozens detained at Swiss protest Police in the Swiss capital said they have detained more than 100 people who took part in a demonstration against an upcoming meeting of global political and economic elites. The protest targeted the annual World Economic Forum that takes place on Jan. 25-29 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Bern police said a group of between 100 and 120 people were stopped from staging an unapproved demonstration in the cen- ter of the city Saturday afternoon. A police statement said some of the would-be protesters threw fireworks and objects at officers. Police later found a ve- hicle containing large amounts of pepper spray, masks and helmets. The statement said “several” protest- ers were charged with breaching the peace. KHARTOUM, SUDAN Gunmen kill peacekeeper The U.N.-African Union peacekeep- ing mission said gunmen have killed one peacekeeper in an ambush in eastern Darfur. UNAMID said in a statement that three peacekeepers were also wounded in Saturday’s attack on a patrol unit. It said 35 peacekeepers have been killed since the mission’s initial deployment on Dec. 31, 2007, to protect civilians and im- prove security in Darfur. Fighting between rebels and Suda- nese government forces began there in 2003, killing up to 300,000 people and driving 2.7 million from their homes. The government said those figures are exaggerated. From Associated Press reports THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A GROUP OF PROTESTERS is surrounded by riot police during a anti World Economic Forum, WEF, demonstration in Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday. W ORLD Coordinated sect attack kills 143 in north Nigeria BY JON GAMBRELL AND IBRAHIM GARBA The Associated Press KANO, Nigeria — A co- ordinated attack by a radi- cal Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hos- pital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group’s deadliest assault since beginning its cam- paign of terror in Africa’s most populous nation. Soldiers and police offi- cers swarmed Kano’s streets as Nigeria’s president again promised the sect known as Boko Haram would “face the full wrath of the law.” But the uniformed bodies of security agents that filled a Kano hos- pital mortuary again showed the sect can strike at will against the country’s weak central government. Friday’s attacks hit police stations, immigration offic- es and the local headquar- ters of Nigeria’s secret po- lice in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people that remains an important po- litical and religious center in the country’s Muslim north. A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with powerful explosives outside a regional police headquarters, tearing its roof away and blowing out windows in a blast felt miles away as its members escaped jail cells there. Authorities largely re- fused to offer casualty sta- tistics as mourners began claiming the bodies of their loved ones to bury before sundown, following Is- lamic tradition. However, a hospital official said at least 143 people were killed in the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity be- cause he wasn’t authorized to release the death toll to journalists. The toll still could rise, since other bod- ies could be held at other clinics and hospitals in the sprawling city. State authorities enforced a 24-hour curfew in the city, with many remaining home as soldiers and police patrolled the streets and setup roadblocks. Gun- shots echoed through some areas of the city into Satur- day morning. Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross, said volunteers of- fered first aid to the wounded, and evacuated those seriously injured to local hospitals. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RED CROSS OFFICIALS collect bodies of victims of Friday’s bomb blast and gun attacks from a street in Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday. Divers find body inside capsized cruise ship Coasta Concordia The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered from a narrow corridor inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia. BY FRANCES D’EMILIO AND COLLEEN BARRY The Associated Press ROME — The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concor- dia, raising the death toll to 12 in the week-old accident that has sent some light fuel ■ spilling into the Mediterra- nean off Tuscany. Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro said that the victim was found dur- ing a particularly risky in- spection of an evacuation staging point at the ship’s rear. “The corridor was very narrow, and the divers’ lines risked snagging” on objects in the passageway, Nicastro said. To permit the coast guard divers to get into the area, Italian navy divers had preceded them, setting off charges to blast holes for easier en- trance and exit, he said. The woman’s national- ity and identity were not immediately known. Before the corpse was found, 21 people were list- ed as missing. One of the women on the list is a Pe- ruvian crew member, the others are passengers. Three bodies were found in the waters near the ship in the first hours after the accident’ since then the rest of the victims have all been found inside the Concordia, apparently unable to get off the ship during a chaotic evacuation via lifeboats and later by helicopters. Some survivors jumped off and swam to safety. The Concordia hit a reef and ran aground on Jan. 13, while passengers dined, about two hours after the ship had set sail from the port of Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian Sea. 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MEXICO CITY
6.2 earthquake hits MexicoA magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off
the coast of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to Tapachula on the border with Guate-mala.
The quake broke windows in Tuxtla Gutierrez and sent frightened residents into the streets in cities across Chi-apas.
There were no initial reports of major damage, but state Civil Protection au-thorities said they were doing a review throughout the state.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean about 35 miles southwest of the city of Mapastepec, near the border with Gua-temala.
It had a depth of 41 miles.
BERN, SwITzERlaNd
Dozens detained at Swiss protestPolice in the Swiss capital said they
have detained more than 100 people who took part in a demonstration against an upcoming meeting of global political and economic elites.
The protest targeted the annual World Economic Forum that takes place on Jan. 25-29 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
Bern police said a group of between 100 and 120 people were stopped from staging an unapproved demonstration in the cen-ter of the city Saturday afternoon.
A police statement said some of the would-be protesters threw fireworks and objects at officers. Police later found a ve-hicle containing large amounts of pepper spray, masks and helmets.
The statement said “several” protest-ers were charged with breaching the peace.
KHaRTOUM, SUdaN
Gunmen kill peacekeeperThe U.N.-African Union peacekeep-
ing mission said gunmen have killed one peacekeeper in an ambush in eastern Darfur.
UNAMID said in a statement that three peacekeepers were also wounded in Saturday’s attack on a patrol unit.
It said 35 peacekeepers have been killed since the mission’s initial deployment on Dec. 31, 2007, to protect civilians and im-prove security in Darfur.
Fighting between rebels and Suda-nese government forces began there in 2003, killing up to 300,000 people and driving 2.7 million from their homes.
The government said those figures are exaggerated.
From Associated Press reports
the associated press
a gROUp Of pROTESTERS is surrounded by riot police during a anti World economic Forum, WeF, demonstration in Bern, switzerland, on saturday.
WORLD
Coordinated sect attack kills 143 in north Nigeria
BY JON gaMBREll aNdIBRaHIM gaRBa
the associated press
KANO, Nigeria — A co-ordinated attack by a radi-cal Islamist sect in north Nigeria’s largest city killed at least 143 people, a hos-pital official said Saturday, representing the extremist group’s deadliest assault since beginning its cam-paign of terror in Africa’s most populous nation.
Soldiers and police offi-cers swarmed Kano’s streets as Nigeria’s president again promised the sect known as Boko Haram would “face the full wrath of the law.” But the uniformed bodies of security agents that filled a Kano hos-pital mortuary again showed the sect can strike at will against the country’s weak central government.
Friday’s attacks hit police stations, immigration offic-es and the local headquar-ters of Nigeria’s secret po-lice in Kano, a city of more than 9 million people that remains an important po-litical and religious center in the country’s Muslim north. A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with powerful explosives outside a regional police headquarters, tearing its roof away and blowing out windows in a blast felt miles away as its members escaped jail cells there.
Authorities largely re-fused to offer casualty sta-tistics as mourners began claiming the bodies of their loved ones to bury before sundown, following Is-lamic tradition. However, a hospital official said at least
143 people were killed in the attack.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity be-cause he wasn’t authorized to release the death toll to journalists. The toll still could rise, since other bod-ies could be held at other clinics and hospitals in the sprawling city.
State authorities enforced a 24-hour curfew in the
city, with many remaining home as soldiers and police patrolled the streets and setup roadblocks. Gun-shots echoed through some areas of the city into Satur-day morning.
Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross, said volunteers of-fered first aid to the wounded, and evacuated those seriously injured to local hospitals.
the associated press
REd CROSS OffICIalS collect bodies of victims of Friday’s bomb blast and gun attacks from a street in Kano, Nigeria, on saturday.
Divers find body inside capsized cruise ship Coasta Concordia
The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered from a narrow corridor inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia.
BY fRaNCES d’EMIlIO aNd COllEEN BaRRY
the associated press
ROME — The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concor-dia, raising the death toll to 12 in the week-old accident that has sent some light fuel
■ spilling into the Mediterra-nean off Tuscany.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro said that the victim was found dur-ing a particularly risky in-spection of an evacuation staging point at the ship’s rear.
“The corridor was very narrow, and the divers’ lines risked snagging” on objects in the passageway, Nicastro said. To permit the coast guard divers to get into the area, Italian navy divers had preceded them, setting off charges to blast holes for easier en-trance and exit, he said.
The woman’s national-ity and identity were not immediately known.
Before the corpse was
found, 21 people were list-ed as missing. One of the women on the list is a Pe-ruvian crew member, the others are passengers.
Three bodies were found in the waters near the ship in the first hours after the accident’ since then the rest of the victims have all been found inside the Concordia, apparently unable to get off the ship during a chaotic evacuation via lifeboats and later by helicopters. Some survivors jumped off and swam to safety.
The Concordia hit a reef and ran aground on Jan. 13, while passengers dined, about two hours after the ship had set sail from the port of Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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