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Another shooting has taken the lives of three people in a shooting incident in New Orleans. While confirming the killings, police revealed that two people fired indiscriminately into a crowd on Saturday night and killed two people while…

Reports coming out of India have revealed that no fewer than 22 men took turns in raping a disabled young girl over a seven month period. According to the girl’s mother, she was drugged and raped repeatedly by the men at the apartment…

The guns have boomed once again in Rivers State, this time taking the lives of two police officers and another individual. Confirming the killings, the Rivers State Police Command issued a statement saying the deceased…

More than 10,000 children were killed or maimed in conflicts in 2017 while more than 8,000 youngsters were recruited or used as combatants, the UN has reported. The annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict…

15 people have died over the past few days in separate attacks in central Nigeria’s Benue State, due to the recurring clashes between Christian farmers and nomadic cattle herders, official reports confirmed Wednesday. Benue State…

A police paramilitary truck ran into a landmine in Liboi, Kenya close to the eastern border with Somalia, killing five Kenyan paramilitary police, a government official said. “It was an IED attack and we have lost five police officers,”…

Mozambique police have revealed that on Sunday nine “insurgents” in the country’s far north were killed. This was after ten people were decapitated by suspected jihadists in the region last weekend. Cabo Delgado province, which is…

32 people in southern Ethiopia over the weekend perished in Landslides due to heavy rain, government officials reported on Monday. The Government Communication Affairs Office (GCAO) said nine people died in the Gamo Gofa zone, with 17…

five students were found dead and twelve others have come up missing on Sunday at a tourist site in Pakistani Kashmir, after a bridge collapsed at a tourist site, officials reported stating it was unlikely survivors would be found. The…

Pre-monsoon thunderstorms and lightning strikes in Bangladesh have killed dozens of Bangladeshis, officials reported on Thursday. A director at Bangladesh’s disaster management department, Iftekharul Islam told AFP, most of the victims…

Police in Malawi on Tuesday arrested a Catholic priest in Malawi suspected to be connected to the murder of an albino man. Prior to this a police officer and medical official have been detained under suspicion. James Kadadzela, the…

Due to an accidental shooting at a burial ceremony in Enugu a mourner was killed. The Police in Enugu State is currently investigating the incident, another is said to be injured The Enugu State Police Command’s spokesman, Ebere…

Orumah Efemena, a Pharmacy department student of the Delta State University, Abraka, has reportedly poisoned himself after getting a two-semester extension from the school authorities due to his bad results in his final year examination.…

A former husband to a 42-year-old teacher in Saldanha, West Coast, South Africa has reportedly entered her school and shot her in front of her primary school pupils. Officers were tipped off about the shooting on Wednesday at around 7:20…

On Saturday, at the New Town area of Ondo Town in Ondo State a Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Official was electrocuted. The worker perished in his attempt to connect a cable back to an electric pole. An anonymous…

Following the death of the founder of MMM pyramid scheme, Sergei Mavrodi, Twitter users have taken to the social media platform to publish their views on his death. Mavrodi reportedly died today of heart attack at the age of 62. The…

Lucky Ayosin has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court after impregnating his daughter after serial rape. The suspect was also sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Justice John Adeyeye for attempted murder of…

Miss Kelechi Ibeh a final-year Banking and Finance student at Imo State University has been killed by a gunman on Thursday on her birthday. The victim also known as Kaycee, was supposed to graduate in August this year. PUNCH sources…

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked three communities in Kogi State, killing 25 people. The affected areas were Abejukolo in Omala LGA, Oganienugwu and Ikende communities in Dekina Local Government Area, all being in the Eastern…

A young teenage house help almost murdered the one-year-old child of her boss. The teenager was caught feeding the baby with liquid soap. In a viral video the young girl in the recording has revealed that she wanted to quit her job and…

In rural Guinea-Bissau when a minibus became trapped in a forest fire 11 passenger's have perished The incident occurred on Thursday night, after the overcrowded vehicle left the village of Konkoli, near the capital Bissau, on an…

An accident in Peru has left people dead when a bus veered off the road falling into a gorge, killing 10 in the process, officials have reported The incident happened on Wednesday when a bus veered off course in Peru’s southeastern…

Benue State which had a mass burial planned for those killed in the attack of Fulani herdsmen in Okpokwu, has cancelled the burial in the latest development. The government had scheduled to bury all the 24 victims of the Omusu Edimoga…

A truck full of wedding party guests fell off a bridge in Gujarat state, India early Tuesday killing over 30 people, mostly women and children, officials report. Police said the incident happened because the driver of the truck whilst…

A hapless man was run over by a speeding BRT bus yesterday (Thursday) The bus hit the man as he was trying to cross the BRT lane to the dismay and horror of several spectators. The incident happened at Irawo Bus stop, Ikorodu Road, Kosofe…

In Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,  Two suspected cult members have been killed, in a gang war clash On Monday. The battle, occurred on Samphino Road, in Kpansia and Biogbolo, Yenizue-Gene, all in the Yenagoa Local Government Area, it led to…

Mr. Okaye Igali, Chairman, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area chapter, the National Union of Local Government Employees, Bayelsa State, has been murdered in broad daylight on Friday, The 53-year-old Igali was shot by unknown assassins…

Police suspect that a female student known as Happiness was killed and had her private parts and other organs removed by internet fraudsters. Happiness who was newly admitted into Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro went missing on January…

Omonfonwa a senior lecturer at University of Benin (UniBen) was killed at his Evbumore residence by armed robbers on Wednesday morning. The assailants looted others and engaged security agents in a gunfight before they fled. One robber was…