Three Pupils Killed In South African School As Walkway Collapses Three South African students have been killed and 19 others seriously injured on Friday after a walkway collapsed at a high school near Johannesburg, an official said. “It breaks my heart,” provincial education minister Panyaza Lesufi told reporters after the incident at Hoerskool Driehoek school in Vanderbijlpark, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Johannesburg. “We can confirm 26 leaners were affected, with three deceased — two males and one female,” he said, indicating the victims were between the ages of 13 and 18. Another 19 pupils were seriously injured, while two suffered minor injuries and another two had already been released from the hospital. One teacher told local media that the incident occurred shortly after morning assembly. Emergency services rushed to scene to rescue pupils trapped in the rubble. The walkway connected the administration block with classrooms.

  UN Peacekeepers Killed in Attack on Mali's Aguelhoc Camp At least 10 peacekeepers from Chad have been killed and 25 others wounded in an attack on a United Nations camp in northern Mali, according to the world body. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, saying it was "in reaction" to the visit to Chad by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the Mauritanian Al-Akhbar news agency, which regularly receives statements from this armed group. Read also: UN plans to evict Nigerian refugees to borno UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned what he described as a "complex attack" on the UN camp in Aguelhoc, some 200km north of Mali's Kidal region towards the border with Algeria, and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

Two Killed, 25 Injured In French Ski Resort Fire Channels Television Two people died Sunday and 25 more were injured, four seriously, in a fire at the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps, officials said. The pre-dawn blaze forced the evacuation of some 60 resort workers, including foreigners, from a three-storey accommodation building. Firefighters found the two unidentified bodies in a burnt-out area of the building in the upmarket Courchevel 1850 ski station. Three of the four badly injured were flown to hospital by helicopter, the local officials said. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. “Some young people escaped down the facade of the building using the balustrades. Some of them were in their underwear,” said one witness, who identified himself as Victor, 27. The blaze had already devoured the top two floors of the building by the time firefighters arrived, fire service spokesman Emmanuel Clavaud said. Read also:  Fire outbreak in Mexico...

Five Killed In Nairobi Hotel Attack At least five people were killed Tuesday when an Islamist suicide bomber and gunmen stormed an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, in the first such attack in the Kenyan capital in five years. Gunshots rang out sporadically as night fell in Nairobi, where police combed the hotel and outlying office buildings for survivors while trying to flush out the attackers. The attack at the DusitD2 compound, which includes a 101-room hotel, restaurant and office buildings housing local and international companies, began at 3 pm (1200 GMT) with a massive explosion heard five kilometres (three miles) away at the AFP bureau. READ ALSO: Gunfight and explosion in Nairobi Hotel The Al-Qaeda linked Somalian group Al-Shabaab, which carried out a notorious assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in 2013, claimed responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors jihadist activities. “We can now confirm that this criminal activity commenced ...

Alex Badeh: How Former Chief of Defense Staff Was Killed – Police We posted yesterday that  former chief of defence staff was shot dead, this is how it happened!! The Nasarawa State Police Command on Wednesday revealed how former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh was murdered Badeh was killed on Tuesday by unidentified gunmen along Abuja-Keffi road while returning from his farm. However, the Command disclosed that efforts were on to apprehend those behind the “dastardly act.” A statement issued by the Command reads: “On the December 18, 2018 at about 18:35hrs, the former Chief of Defence Staff(rtd) while returning from his farm located in Panda Development Area of Karu LGA was attacked by gunmen at Tudu-Uku along Gitata-Keffi road. “He was in the company of his friend and driver when the unknown gunmen ambushed and opened fire on his moving vehicle. The former Chief of Defence Staff suffered gunshot injuries, which resulted to his death while his dri...