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Page 10 The Skanner June 15, 2016 World News Briefs Oicials Casting Wide Net in Club Shooting Investigation ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Shot in the leg and lying in a mix of blood and water on a bathroom loor, Patience Carter heard gunman Omar Mateen dial 911 from just a few feet away. The American-born son of an Afghan immigrant, Mateen told the person on the other end he wanted America to stop bombing his country, she recalled. “We knew what his motive was. He wasn’t going to stop killing people until he was killed,” she said Tues- day during a riveting hospital news conference. Now, investigators are trying to igure out what led to Mateen’s murderous rampage in a gay dance club where patrons say they knew him as just another reg- ular who danced and sometimes tried to pick up men. A number of possible explanations and motives for the bloodbath have emerged, with the Muslim Ma- teen professing allegiance to the Islamic State group in a 911 call during the attack, his ex-wife saying he was mentally ill and his father suggesting he was driven by hatred of gays. The investigation into an attack that let Mateen and 49 victims dead includes a look at his current spouse. An oicial who was briefed on the case but insisted on anonymity to discuss a continuing inves- tigation said authorities believe Mateen’s wife knew about the plot ahead of time, but they are reluctant to charge her on that basis alone. In Afghan-American Community, Attack Elicits Horror, Sorrow FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — In this Northern California city where people can buy prayer lags at the dollar store, fresh-baked Afghan bread at corner markets and feast on beef kabobs in “little Kabul’s” many restaurants, Afghan-Americans are angry. Fremont, about 40 miles southeast of San Francis- co, is a bedroom city of 220,000 people with a thriving waterpark, leafy streets and a public lake. It is also home to the largest population of Afghan-Americans in the country. With news that Omar Mateen killed 49 people at an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub and was born to Afghan immigrant parents, those in the community are expressing horror, sorrow and disbelief that one of their own could commit the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. “Every single Afghan feels really horrible because so many innocent people were killed by a mad guy,” said Waheed Momand, president of the Afghan Co- alition, the largest nonproit advocating for Afghan people in the U.S. It was a tragedy that brought Momand back 15 years, when the community realized the Sept. 11 ter- ror attacks were orchestrated by al-Qaida in Afghan- istan. Authorities Search for Boy Dragged into Water by Gator LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities were searching early Wednesday for a 2-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator near Dis- ney’s upscale Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. The family of ive from Nebraska was on vacation and wading in a lake Tuesday evening when the attack happened, Orange County Sherif Jerry Demings told a news conference. The father tried to rescue his son but was unsuccessful, Demings said. More than 50 law enforcement personnel were searching the Seven Seas Lagoon along with an alliga- tor tracker and two marine units and would continue searching through the night, Demings said. “We’re going to hope for the best in these circum- stances,” Demings said. The attack happened in an area of the Seven Seas Lagoon where “no swim- ming” signs were posted, Demings said. The alliga- tor was estimated to be 4 to 7 feet long, but its exact size was not known, Dem- ings said. 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SALARY: Effective July 1, $44,412 - $58,422 (pend- ing inal board approval) based on 261 work days; actual salary prorated to days worked. 6-15-16 JOE BURBANK/ORLANDO SENTINEL VIA AP News C.J. Ford of Orlando places lowers as visitors continue to pay their respects at makeshift memorial at Orlando Regional Medical Center, a few blocks from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, June 14, 2016. UN: Cofee No Longer Deemed Possible Carcinogen LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization’s research arm has downgraded its classiication of cofee as a possible carcinogen, declaring there isn’t enough proof to show a link to cancer. But the International Agency for Research on Can- cer, or IARC, also announced in a report published on Wednesday that drinking “very hot” beverages of any kind could potentially raise the cancer risk, and it classiied them as “probably carcinogenic” to hu- mans. In particular, it cited countries including China, Iran and those in South America, where teas such as the bitter herbal infusion mate are traditionally drunk at extremely high temperatures — above 65 or 70 degrees Celsius (150 or 160 Fahrenheit) — consid- erably hotter than drinks would normally be served in cafes across North America and Europe. Experts convened by the Lyon-based IARC conclud- ed that there was inadequate evidence to suggest cofee might cause cancer, according to a letter pub- lished in the Lancet Oncology. “I’m not really sure why cofee was in a higher cat- egory in the irst place,” said Owen Yang, an epide- miologist at Oxford University who has previously studied the possible link between cofee and cancer. He was not part of the IARC expert group. “The best evidence available suggests that cofee does not raise the cancer risk,” he said. 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