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The Mexican government is sending 300 National Guard troopers to bolster the southern state of Guerrero, where a local police chief and 12 officers were shot dead in a brutal ambush Monday MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government sent 300 National Guard troopers to bolster the southern state of Guerrero on Tuesday, where a local police chief and 12 officers were shot dead in a brutal ambush the day before. It was just one of three attacks Monday in an increasingly violent region of the country. Announcing the reinforcements in his morning news conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mourned the victims and called the attack “practically an ambush.” Guerrero's attorney general launched an investigation Monday after the 13 bodies were found on a highway in El Papayo, which is in the Guerrero township of Coyuca de Benítez on the Pacific coast. Two more people were injured in the attack. Some bodies were found handcuffed, face down on the ground, according to local reports, ...

A Marine has been killed in a homicide at Camp Lejeune and a second Marine is being held on suspicion of being involved CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- A Marine was killed in a homicide at Camp Lejeune and a second Marine was held on suspicion of being involved, the base said. Base authorities took the Marine into custody about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday after an incident that occurred in a barracks room on the North Carolina base earlier in the evening, a statement from the base said. The statement called the death a homicide and described the other Marine as a suspect but didn't provide any other details, including how the Marine died. The sprawling Camp Lejeune covers about 240 square miles (621 square kilometers) and is home to the II Marine Expeditionary Force. Its beaches and ranges provide training in amphibious assaults and urban warfare and it is used both for U.S. Marine training and for exercises involving other Military forces from around the world. The death came two days before t...

Police say a teenage boy who allegedly shot two people dead and wounded five others inside a major shopping mall in Thailand's capital used a blank-firing handgun that had been modified to fire real bullets BANGKOK -- The teenage boy who allegedly shot two people dead and wounded five others inside a major shopping mall in the center of Thailand's capital used a blank-firing handgun that had been modified to fire real bullets, police said Wednesday. The suspect was arrested less than an hour after the first gunshots Tuesday afternoon at the Siam Paragon mall, one of Bangkok’s biggest and most upscale shopping destinations. Video on social media showed a long-haired teenage boy in the custody of police. Thai media reported the 14-year-old was a student at a Bangkok private school. Police Chief Torsak Sukvimol said he had a record of being treated for mental illness and gave an incoherent account of his actions after his arrest, claiming that voices told him what to do. Police o...

Five people are dead and hundreds of nearby residents were evacuated after a semi-truck carrying a toxic substance overturned in rural Illinois. Two children under the age of 12 were among five people killed when a semi-truck loaded with a toxic substance overturned in their rural Illinois community. The crash forced hundreds of nearby residents to evacuate their homes over the weekend, officials said. The deadly highway wreck happened Friday night near the village of Teutopolis, authorities said. The semitruck was carrying several thousand gallons of anhydrous ammonia and caused a "large plume cloud" of the noxious gas to rise over the area, according to authorities. Evacuated residents were allowed to return to their homes Saturday evening after the crash was cleared from U.S. Highway 40 and testing "indicated the danger from the anhydrous ammonia has dissipated," Teutopolis Assistant Fire Chief Joe Holomy said in a statement. Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes c...

An Egyptian village is mourning dozens of its men killed in the horrific floodwaters that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya NAZLET EL-SHARIF, Egypt -- The 42-year-old Egyptian farmer was watering his crops along the Nile River south of the capital of Cairo and scrolling on his mobile phone when he learned that two of his sons were dead. Ashraf Sadawy Abdel-Fattah saw a list on social media with names of Egyptians killed in the horrific flooding that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya on Sunday night. His second-eldest son, Mohamed, 23, and Abdel-Rahman, who was 19, were on the list, along with six relatives and scores of other men from their village . “It’s a great shock for the family, but also for the entire village,” Abdel-Fattah said, speaking to The Associated Press on Thursday outside his home in Nazlet el-Sharif, a village in the province of Beni Sueif. At least 74 men from the village, some as young as 17, were killed when Mediterranean stor...

A pregnant woman was shot and killed after a fight broke out at a Houston park early Saturday, her family told ABC Houston station KTRK. A pregnant woman was shot and killed after a fight broke out at a Texas park early Saturday, her family told ABC Houston station KTRK. Four other people were struck by gunfire, including two suspected shooters, after dozens of shots were reportedly fired, police said. Police respond to a deadly shooting at Margaret Jenkins Park in Houston, July 22, 2023. KTRK The shooting occurred at Margaret Jenkins Park in southeast Houston around 1:14 a.m., police said. The Houston Police Department received multiple reports of shots fired at the location through its ShotSpotter technology, Assistant Chief E. Garcia said. "A total of 36 shots came in from that Technology ," Garcia said at a press briefing. Police respond to a deadly shooting at Margaret Jenkins Park in Houston, July 22, 2023. KTRK MORE: Gunman who killed officer, wounded 3 others allege...

Three Thai railway workers have been killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded as they were clearing the wreckage of an earlier attack over the weekend in the country’s south BANGKOK -- Three Thai railway workers were killed and four others wounded Tuesday when a bomb exploded as they were clearing the wreckage of an earlier attack over the weekend in the country's south, police said. The workers were repairing tracks near Khlong Ngae station, not far from the Malaysian border, when the bomb exploded at about 6:30 a.m., according to authorities. On Saturday, another bomb derailed and damaged a freight train at the same location, causing no injuries but forcing the closure of the route. Police said the investigation was in its early stages and they were still working to identify any subjects. Bombings are not uncommon in southern Thailand, where anti-government separatists have clashed with government forces in the past, though there has been a general decrease in vi...