Tag Archives: Shooting

MNA International Desk: A longtime city employee opened fire at a municipal building in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and sending terrified co-workers scrambling for cover before police shot and killed him, authorities said. Four other people were wounded in the shooting, including a police officer whose bulletproof vest saved his life, said Virginia Beach Police Chief James Cervera. The city’s visibly shaken mayor, Bobby Dyer, called it “the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach.” The shooting happened shortly after 4 p.m. when the veteran employee of the Public Utilities Department entered a building in ...

MNA International Desk: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15. Ardern said a royal commission — the most powerful judicial probe available under New Zealand law — was needed to find out how a single gunman was able to kill 50 people in an attack that shocked the world. “It is important that no stone is left unturned to get to how this act of terrorism occurred and how we could have stopped it,” she told reporters. New ...

MNA Editorial Desk: State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Saturday confirmed that two Bangladeshi nationals were killed and three went missing in the attack on two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch. Five people are undergoing treatment at hospital. The state minister informed reporters of the revised death toll at a Diplomatic Correspondents Association of Bangladesh event. At least 49 people were killed after a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday. Many others were injured, reports bdnews24.com. Bangladesh Honorary Consul in Auckland Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan had said on Friday that three Bangladeshi nationals had ...

MNA International Desk: Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada’s biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead, reported news agency. The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto police chief Mark Saunders said. “We are looking at all possible motives… and not closing any doors,” Saunders told reporters at the site of the shooting. Paramedics, firefighters and police converged on the shooting in Toronto’s east end, which has many popular restaurants, cafes and shops. Police said the gunman had used a handgun. Earlier reports said ...

MNA International Desk: A teenage boy opened fire with a handgun at a Kentucky high school early Tuesday, killing two fellow students and wounding more than a dozen people in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. The unnamed 15-year-old student, now in custody, is alleged to have carried out the attack at Marshall County High School in Benton, a small town in western Kentucky. Two students of the same age died of gunshot wounds, while 12 other people were shot and five suffered other injuries during the shooting, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said. The suspected shooter was ...

MNA International Desk: A shooting erupted during an electronic music festival at a Mexican beach resort early Monday, leaving at least five people dead, reported news agency. Fifteen people were injured after at least one gunman opened fire and two others—apparently security guards—shot back before dawn inside the Blue Parrot nightclub during the BPM festival in Playa del Carmen, said Quintana Roo state attorney general Miguel Angel Pech. Four of the victims were men, including two from Canada, one from Italy and another from Colombia, Pech said at a news conference. Organizers said three of the victims were part of ...

MNA International Desk: A German-Iranian gunman, 18-year-old, acted alone open fired near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening and killed at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe in eight days. The third attack on citizens in Europe in hardly a week sent freaked shoppers fleeing the Olympia (OEZ) mall as elite police launched a massive operation to track down what had primarily been thought to be up to three assailants. “The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich,” police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters. “The shooter had dual citizenship and no ...

MNA International Desk: Three people were killed in a Michigan courthouse shooting. A US inmate at Michigan courthouse shot and killed two court officers and wounded a sheriff’s deputy on Monday during a struggle to escape before responding officers returned fire and killed him, officials said. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey said in a news conference that “At about 2:25 (pm), we had a disturbance on the third floor of the courthouse. A person has shot two bailiffs, they are both deceased.” Bailey later added that the shooter was a prisoner who took a gun from one of two bailiffs ...

MNA International Desk: Trump hardens his stance on Muslims after Florida shooting as the incident seems to just help the barbaric statements he was earlier making. Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida directly at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and ‘trying to take over our children.’ He represented on the country’s deadliest mass shooting to improve his vow to ban Muslim immigrants, suggesting that the United States suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is ‘a proven history of ...