Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The skanner. (Portland, Or.) 1975-2014 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 2016)
Page 10 The Skanner July 27, 2016 News World News Briefs SAGAMIHARA, Japan (AP) — Japa- nese police on Wednesday searched the home of the suspect in a mass stabbing spree that let 19 people dead at a facili- ty for the mentally disabled. The suspect, 26-year-old Satoshi Ue- matsu, was transferred earlier in the day from a local police station to the prosecutor’s oice in Yokohama. The attacker let dead or injured nearly a third of the approximately 150 patients at the facility in a matter of 40 minutes early Tuesday, Kanagawa prefectural authorities said. The ire department said 25 were wounded, 20 of them seriously. Uematsu turned himself into police about two hours ater the pre-dawn attack in Sagamaihara, a city about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of central Tokyo. He had worked at the facility until February, when he delivered a letter to Parliament outlining a bloody plan to attack two facilities for the handi- capped and saying all disabled people should be put to death. Witnesses Say South Sudan Soldiers Raped Dozens Near UN Camp JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just out- side a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed ight- ing, and at least two died from their inju- ries, witnesses and civilian leaders said. The rapes in the capital of Juba high- lighted two per- sistent problems in the chaotic country engulfed by civil war: targeted eth- nic violence and the Police oicers enter into the house of Satoshi Uematsu, the suspect in a reluctance by U.N. mass stabbing attack, in Sagamihara, outside of Tokyo Wednesday. The peacekeepers to pro- suspect was being transferred Wednesday from a local police station to the prosecutor’s oice in Yokohama. tect civilians. At least one assault occurred as peacekeepers watched, es interviewed insisted on speaking on witnesses told The Associated Press condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals by soldiers if identi- during a visit to the camp. ied. On July 17, two armed soldiers in uni- form dragged away a woman who was less than a few hundred meters (yards) France’s Religious Leaders from the U.N. camp’s western gate Unite Ater Church Attack while armed peacekeepers on foot, in PARIS (AP) — France’s main religious an armored vehicle and in a watchtow- er looked on. One witness estimated leaders have sent a message of unity that 30 peacekeepers from Nepalese and solidarity following a meeting with French President Francois Hollande and Chinese battalions saw it. “They were seeing it. Everyone was a day ater two extremists attacked a seeing it,” he said. “The woman was se- Catholic church and slit the throat of an riously screaming, quarreling and cry- elderly priest. Hollande was presiding over a de- ing also, but there was no help. She was crying for help.” He and other witness- fense council and cabinet meeting Wednesday ater speaking with Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish leaders. On Tuesday, the attackers took hos- tages at the church in Saint-Etienne- du-Rouvray, in the northwest region of Normandy, during morning Mass. Af- ter the priest was slain, both attackers, one a local man, were killed by police outside the church. Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal An- dre Vingt-Trois, called on Catholics to AP PHOTO/SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI Japan Police Search Home of Stabbing Spree Suspect “overcome hatred that comes in their heart” and not to “enter the game” of the Islamic State group that “wants to set children of the same family upon each other.” The rector of the main Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, said France’s Mus- lims must push for better training of Muslim clerics and urged that reform- ing French Muslim institutions be put on the agenda, but without elaborating. California Wildire Forces Shutdown of Famed Big Sur Parks BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California’s sig- nature parks along the Big Sur coast- line that draw thousands of daily visi- tors were closed Tuesday as one of the state’s two major wildires threatened the scenic region at the height of the summer tourism season. To the south, ireighters made prog- ress containing a huge blaze in moun- tains outside Los Angeles, allowing authorities to let most of 20,000 people evacuated over the weekend to return home. In Wyoming, a large backcoun- try wildire in the Shoshone National Forest put about 290 homes and guest ranches at risk. The Big Sur ire threatened a long stretch of pristine, forested mountains hugging the coast and sent smoke bil- lowing over the famed Paciic Coast Highway, which remained open with few if any lames visible to motorists but a risk that the blaze could reach beloved campgrounds, lodges and red- woods near the shore. “It is folly to predict where this ire will go,” said California state parks spokesman Dennis Weber. The Los Angeles-area ire has de- stroyed 18 homes since it started and authorities over the weekend discov- ered a burned body in a car identiied as a man who refused to be evacuated.
