Police in Rio de Janeiro said Monday they accidentally shot dead a Spanish tourist who was visiting a violent favela slum where earlier two officers had been wounded.
A car "broke through a police blockade" in the Rocinha favela, police said in a statement, and officers who did not know there was a tourist aboard opened fire.
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The Canadian Police have shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the province of Ontario, media reports said Thursday.
Canadian media said that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raided a property in Strathroy, about 225km (140 miles) south-west of Toronto.
They named the suspect as Aaron Driver, 24, who was arrested last year for openly supporting theRead more
Unknown gunmen have shot dead a Hindu man in a southern Pakistani town, police said, after a burned copy of the Qur’an prompted days of religious tension in the area.
Police were patrolling the streets in Ghotki, around 420 kilometers (250 miles) north of Karachi in Sindh province, in an effort to halt any potential unrest, authorities said Thursday.
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A 17-year-old Afghan refugee was shot dead by police after injuring four passengers in a slashing attack aboard a train late Monday near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria, authorities said.
Three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack, police said. Another 14 were treated for shock.
An initial investigation found that theRead more
Israeli forces on Friday shot dead a Palestinian woman near Hebron.
Sara Tarayrah, 27, a married pregnant woman, was accompanied by an Israeli female soldier for a search at the entrance to the Ibrahimi Mosque, according to local sources.
Inside the search room, the Israeli soldier fired poisonous gas toward the Palestinian woman, the sources said, adding that the soldierRead more
A Palestinian young man was killed by Israeli occupation forces during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men.
According to eyewitnesses, the Israeli forces opened fire at the young man during the fierce clashes in Halhul checkpoint near Hebron.
The Israeli alleged the young man attempted to throw Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops.
The young man body has beenRead more