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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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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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