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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 2001
Page
13
A powerful storm lashed southern India bringing the heaviest rains in 40 years and killing at least 31 people. Kurnool district bore the brunt with 16 deaths, including 15 washed away when floodwaters flooded a temple shelter.
Flooding over six days in southern Vietnam has killed 40 people, including 25 children, raising the three month toll to 287. Most victims were children left at home as parents worked on farms, officials said Wednesday.
In Denmark a foggy road near the Guldborgsund tunnel caused a crash involving ten vehicles. Four people died and ten were injured, five seriously, as police cited thick fog near the northern tunnel entrance about 75 miles south of Copenhagen.
Italian priest Rev Giuseppi Piarantoni, a missionary in his mid forties, was abducted after an evening Mass in Dimataling Zamboanga del Sur Philippines. Police say the attack occurred shortly before 7 p.m. with few details released by authorities.
In Blantyre, Brown Mpinganjira a former minister and head of National Democratic Alliance pleaded not guilty to treason. He was arrested after five witnesses alleged he plotted a March coup against the Malawi government of Bakili Muluzi. Winnie Madikizela Mandela faces fraud and theft charges in South Africa tied to forged signatures to obtain bank loans totaling over $100,000.
Police arrested six suspects after a 130 pound bomb was found in a milk container in Sixmilecross near Omagh. The raid followed earlier searches in Newtownbutler, with up to a week possible detention under antiterror laws. Dissident groups Continuity IRA and Real IRA are suspected, while Sinn Fein denounces the attackers. The Omagh bombing by the Real IRA in 1998 killed 29 and wounded 330. In Dublin, Ireland’s Special Criminal Court ordered reporters not to publish certain trial details for Colm Murphy.
Russia will close a Cuba radar station near Lourdes and a Vietnam Navy support base at Cam Ranh Bay to save resources. The pullout from Vietnam starts Jan. 1 with no Cuba date. Putin presided over a stormy Defense Ministry meeting as Moscow budgets nearly $1 billion more for weapons this year.
Israel's tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, a retired general who backed expelling Palestinians, was assassinated in a hotel hallway. The PFLP claimed responsibility, pledging more killings. Israel vowed a war on terrorists and demanded Palestinian Authority action.
The Bush administration condemns the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi and urges Yasser Arafat to locate and prosecute those responsible. Washington warns the United States may use force against terrorism supporters while pressing for immediate action to curb violence and restore calm.
In Riyadh Saudi Arabia and Iran urged intensified contacts among petroleum producers to stabilize world markets after a sharp price drop following the Sept. 11 attacks. Oil Ministers Ali Naimi and Bijan Namdar Zangeneh met but made no decisions on production levels.
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