At least four persons were feared dead with several houses burnt in a fresh communal clash between Jukun and Tiv ethnic groups in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba on Monday. According to NAN, a witness, Jerry Luka, told NAN that trouble started in Kente village in the evening when youths from both ethnic groups clashed over a misunderstanding. “The misunderstanding led to the killing of two people in Kente and this morning two others were killed around General Hospital in Wukari. “The argument started over cultural heritage issues between the two tribes which have festered for some time now,” he said. Chairman of Wukari Local Government Council, Mr Daniel Adi, who confirmed the crisis, said two people were killed and houses burnt. According to him, trouble started on Monday when some some Tiv kinsmen were prevented from bringing goods to Kente Market. “One woman who defied their order and brought yams to the market for sale was molested; the action ...

Two-Year-Old Who Fell Into Well Found Dead Spain grieved on Saturday after a toddler who fell down a well was found dead in a tragic end to an intense 13-day rescue operation fraught with danger and setbacks. Hundreds of engineers, police and miners had been working round-the-clock under the media glare to try to reach two-year-old Julen Rosello, who plunged down a narrow, illegal well on January 13 while his parents prepared lunch nearby in Totalan, a southern town near Malaga. “Unfortunately at 1:25 am (0225 GMT) the rescue team reached the spot where they were looking for Julen and found the lifeless body of the little one,” the central government’s representative in the southern region of Andalusia, Alfonso Rodriguez Gomez de Celis, wrote on Twitter. “Not another time, no,” shouted his father Jose when he is believed to have heard the news, an AFP photographer witnessed. Julen’s parents lost another child, Oliver, aged three, in 2017. The child had cardiac problems. ‘I...

Brazil Dam Disaster Leaves 34 Dead, Hundreds Missing Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil. The disaster struck Friday at the Vale mine near the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais state, spewing millions of tons of muddy sludge across the facility and down towards farmland alongside the nearby town of Brumadinho. Dozens of helicopters were used in the rescue operation Saturday because the released mud engulfed buildings, vehicles and roads with a deep, treacherous layer. Rescue officials announced the death toll had more than tripled through the day as more and more bodies were pulled from the mud. By the last count, nearly 300 people were missing, virtually all of them mine workers listed by Vale. Among the more than 170 survivors rescued, 23 were hospitalized with injuries. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro flew over the devastated zon...

Two days of clashes between rival militias near Libya’s capital Tripoli have left 10 people dead and 41 wounded, the health ministry said Thursday. Fighting between armed groups erupted Wednesday despite a truce deal four months ago that had halted deadly battles in the city. A medical source told AFP that fierce clashes hit an area some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Tripoli on Thursday, after fighting around an airport 25 kilometers from the capital the previous day. The violence has pitted the Tripoli Protection Force, an alliance of militias from the city, against the Seventh Brigade group from the town of Tarhuna. The health ministry said that there were women and children among the wounded. Tripoli was plagued by militia clashes that killed at least 117 people and wounded more than 400 between late August and late September. The United Nations mission in Libya on Wednesday condemned a “military mobilisation” in southern Tripoli and warned groups not to break a...