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Newspaper
Sun Journal
Location
New Bern, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1994
Page
6
In Paris a young masked couple stole guns from two officers and hijacked a taxi, killing three policemen and a taxi driver while injuring six others. The jailed woman refused to talk to police, and her male companion remained hospitalized. Authorities did not immediately know their identities. Also injured were three bystanders and a motorist whose car was seized.
Mohammed Nizamuddin, 21, leaped from a second floor ward after doctors refused release pending tests for plague. He feared infection in the ward as New Delhi reopened schools amid public fear and WHO and Indian officials say the outbreak may end in weeks.
A magnitude 7.9 undersea quake near the Kuril islands caused buildings to collapse and up to nine foot waves. Dozens injured, rescue crews deployed from Moscow and the Far East as aftershocks followed amid conflicting death toll reports. Japan reported minimal damage on Hokkaido while regional flooding and power outages spread.
AP reports at least 40 people, including children, died across four sites in Fribourg and Valais in an apparent mass self sacrifice by the Cross and Rose sect. Twenty three bodies were found at a Cherry farm and seventeen in three chalets near Martigny. Police say victims held French Swiss and Canadian passports. the farm was said to be used for biological research.
Turku Finland AP salvage teams offered to refloat the sunken Estonia or retrieve bodies from the Baltic seabed after the vessel sank off the Finnish coast killing more than 900. The wreck lies 180 to 280 feet under water hindering efforts with politically charged decisions pending. Costs cited exceed 100 million dollars, and weather could delay action until next year.
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