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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 2001
Page
5
In Bermuda, Sgt. Doug Eccleston died after helping rescue a sick crew member from a Malaysian tanker. He and another airman were lowered by raft from the vessel when the raft flipped, throwing them into the water. Bermuda lacks local sea-rescue resources and relies on U.S. aid.
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off Amami-Oshima in southwestern Japan early Sunday, NOAA said. No injuries or major damage were reported, and the tremor occurred about six miles beneath the sea near the island’s coast.
Suspected Islamic militants struck an Indian army convoy in Kashmir on Saturday, killing a soldier and triggering a gunbattle that left five civilians, two attackers, and a policeman dead. In Algeria, a Ramadan massacre killed 17, including 10 children, with no group claiming responsibility.
Israeli helicopter missiles hit three Rafah refugee camp buildings belonging to military intelligence and Force 17 in a pre-dawn raid, a second straight day of strikes after mortar attacks on settlements. No injuries were reported, as security buildings across Gaza had been evacuated after an earlier F-16 strike near Gaza City.
An Irish trucker found eight dead asylum seekers and five others alive in his cargo, prompting a Europe-wide probe into human traffickers. A 17-year-old survivor spoke Turkish. two children were among the deceased as investigators trace a route from Zeebrugge to Waterford with stops in Cologne and Belgium.
Four Nahariya high school youths ages 15 and 16 confessed in police custody to creating and spreading the Goner worm by email. The Internet attack reached hundreds of users in Europe especially France and Germany, with over 400 reported cases worldwide. The worm spreads via email with a Hi subject and a harmful attached screen saver, then propagates through ICQ and chat tools.
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