Hanoi (VNA) - Thirteen people, including a police officer, were killed and four others wounded before dawn on January 23 during a police operation in the Philippines' southern Maguindanao province, police said. The police said the shootout erupted when police went to the hideout of a fugitive in Sultan Kudarat town at around 3 am to serve an arrest warrant for frustrated murder, robbery with murder, and homicide, China's Xinhua News Agency reported. The suspect and his armed followers resisted arrest and allegedly fired at the arresting team, resulting in a shootout that lasted five hours, the police said, adding that four policemen were wounded in the incident. The police recovered six M16 assault rifles, two .45 caliber pistols, one homemade .50-caliber Barret sniper rifle, one M14 rifle, one light automatic rifle, and a .22 caliber rifle at the clash site./. … [Read more...] about Thirteen killed in shootout in southern Philippines
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U.S. executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades
Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of Montgomery, 52, who had initially been scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection of pentobarbital, a powerful barbiturate on Tuesday in the Justice Department’s execution chamber at its prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. … [Read more...] about U.S. executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades
Trump suggests arming teachers as he meets school shooting survivors
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested arming teachers to deter future mass shootings as he held an emotional meeting Wednesday at the White House with survivors of the gun rampage that left 17 people dead at a Florida high school. … [Read more...] about Trump suggests arming teachers as he meets school shooting survivors
Citizen protection measures taken to protect Vietnamese abroad
Clarifying the case in which a Vietnamese woman was sentenced to three years in prison for the murder charge by a court in the RoK, Hang said the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK reported that on January 2, a Vietnamese woman born in 1995 and from Kien Giang province jumped from the eighth storey of a building with her daughter in her arms. The child died while the woman was seriously injured and hospitalised. On January 7, a court sentenced her to three years’ imprisonment for murder. … [Read more...] about Citizen protection measures taken to protect Vietnamese abroad
Man, two children found dead with suicide note in northern Vietnam
According to an official from the Vo Mieu Commune People’s Committee, H. had an argument with his wife on Saturday night, during which the man forced his wife to go back to her mother’s. … [Read more...] about Man, two children found dead with suicide note in northern Vietnam