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Masked Gunmen Storm TV Channel in Ecuador, Take Hostages
Cameras were rolling Tuesday as masked gunmen stormed the set of an Ecuadorian news program while the show was broadcasting live.
Shock footage out of Guayaquil, Ecuador, captured the harrowing moments around 10 gunmen entered the TC Televisión studios during the Despues de el Noticiero program and ordered everyone on the floor.
The incident unfolded just hours after Ecuador President Daniel Noboa...
Mexican Drug Gang Showcases its Own Military, Government tries to Downplay it
Mexico’s top security official is trying to downplay a cartel-produced video purportedly showing an armored paramilitary unit.
The unit includes a large contingent of cartel gunmen wearing high-end tactical gear and posing by what appears to be dozens of factory-made armored trucks and SUVs.
The release of the video comes just one day after Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited...
Woman shot dead after masked gunmen open fire on Swedish beach
Several masked gunmen opened fire on a man and woman carrying a child near the popular beach resort of Ribersborg, Sweden. The woman has died and police are hunting for the perpetrators, RT.com reports.
At approximately 10am local time, a gang of several masked attackers fired off between eight and ten shots, reportedly from multiple weapons, before fleeing the scene through the grounds of a nearby...
Coptic Christians bombed in Egypt again, dozens dead including children
Gunmen opened fire on two buses and a truck carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, Egypt on Friday, killing at least 28, including children. Some 24 people were also injured in the attack.
The group of between eight and 10 gunmen, reportedly dressed in military uniforms according to eyewitnesses, approached the convoy in three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks before opening fire, according to local media...
Duterte Declares Martial Law on Southern Philippines in ISIS Fight
Three members of the security forces were killed and 12 wounded, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana told a news conference, as clashes erupted in the wake of what the military said was a raid on a flat where about 15 rebels were hiding.
Lt. Gen. Eduardo Ano, the armed forces chief of staff, said nearly 50 gunmen entered Marawi City, which has a population of about 200,000, and burned houses and other...
Pulse Attack Survivor: There Were Multiple Gunmen
A man who survived the terror attack early Sunday morning at a gay nightclub, said he believed there were 2 gunmen and not just one.
Now we know Omar Mateen had radical Islamic views, noo thanks to his father those views only grew stronger.
The friend of a bartender who was shot three times at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida relays what his friend told him happened Sunday, step by step.
“People...
Witness Describes Second Shooter, Accomplice Blocking Door in Orlando
The Palm Beach Post interviewed a man who witnessed the shooting at the gay Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
Janiel Gonzalez told the newspaper he heard two guns during the massacre.
“I’m pretty sure it was more than one person. I heard two guns going at the same time.”
“It was very, very crazy. He kept on shooting and shooting and shooting, rapid fire,’’ Gonzalez said, “and he’d...
Gunmen kill 19, injure 7 in Brazil
Masked gunmen have killed at least 19 people and injured seven more in a series of shootings on the outskirts of Brazil’s largest city of Sao Paulo, authorities say.
“This is very serious and merits a special investigation,” said Secretary of Public Security for Sao Paulo State Alexandre de Moraes in a Friday statement. “We don’t rule out any possibility.”
According...
Bomb explosion destroys 22 NATO trucks in Afghanistan
Firefighters try to extinguish a burning NATO supply oil tanker following an attack by gunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, June 19, 2011.
A bomb explosion has destroyed 22 US-led NATO trucks carrying supplies for US-led forces in Afghanistan’s Samangan Province, an Afghan official says.
The incident took place on Wednesday after a magnetic bomb placed in a parking lot exploded, setting the supply...
12 NATO oil tankers torched in eastern Afghanistan
Firefighters extinguish burning NATO supply oil tankers and goods trucks at a terminal following an overnight attack by gunmen in Quetta on December 9, 2011.
Taliban militants have attacked 12 NATO tankers carrying fuel for US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
Afghan officials said that one driver was killed and four security guards were injured late on Sunday when the militants...
Syrian rebels executing people in the streets of Homs
People have been left without water or electricity as rebels destroy water pumps and power converters. Civilians are forced to stay inside as snipers shoot from the rooftops.
RT in Damascus managed to contact an eyewitness in Homs, who says gunmen are killing civilians in the streets. Galina says leaving home is out of the question, as snipers “can shoot you in the back.”
“They kill both young...
Gang dumps 35 bodies on street in Mexico
35 dead bodies were dumped on the street in Mexican state of Veracruz
Gunmen have blocked a busy road in the Mexican state of Veracruz in rush hour to abandon two trucks with 35 bodies inside.
In the latest disturbing sign of Mexico’s ongoing gang problems, suspected drug traffickers dumped dead bodies of 23 men and 12 women under a busy overpass in downtown Boca del Rio on Tuesday afternoon,...
Mexican police unearth 59 bodies in pits as they search for abducted bus passengers
Previous: The pits were found in the farm hamlet of La Joya in the township of San Fernando, in the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants, most from Central America, were found murdered last August.
Mexican security forces searching for abducted bus passengers in a violent northern state bordering Texas have stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies.
The grisly find was made...
Police: US Missionary May Have Been Killed for Chevy Truck
An American missionary shot dead in Mexico may have been targeted for her expensive pickup truck, police say.
Nancy and Sam Davis were attacked by gunmen Wednesday while driving their 2008 Chevrolet pickup on a highway near San Fernando, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, police said.
A bullet struck Nancy Davis, 59, in the head. Her husband raced to get her to medical help,...
Gunmen fire on plane carrying aid workers in Congo
In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, a Rwandan Hutu rebel gropes a local woman as he passes her on a crowded mountain path near the village of Kimua in eastern Congo.
Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo.
Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid...