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6.2 earthquake hits Mexico Dozens detained at Swiss protest Gunmen kill peacekeeper
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off Police in the Swiss capital said they The U.N.-African Union peacekeep-
the coast of the southern Mexican state have detained more than 100 people who ing mission said gunmen have killed one
of Chiapas on Saturday, shaking the state took part in a demonstration against an peacekeeper in an ambush in eastern
from the capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez to upcoming meeting of global political and Darfur.
Tapachula on the border with Guate- economic elites. UNAMID said in a statement that
mala. The protest targeted the annual World three peacekeepers were also wounded in
The quake broke windows in Tuxtla Economic Forum that takes place on Jan. Saturday’s attack on a patrol unit.
Gutierrez and sent frightened residents 25-29 in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. It said 35 peacekeepers have been killed
into the streets in cities across Chi- Bern police said a group of between 100 since the mission’s initial deployment on
apas. and 120 people were stopped from staging Dec. 31, 2007, to protect civilians and im-
There were no initial reports of major an unapproved demonstration in the cen- prove security in Darfur.
damage, but state Civil Protection au- ter of the city Saturday afternoon. Fighting between rebels and Suda-
thorities said they were doing a review A police statement said some of the nese government forces began there
throughout the state. would-be protesters threw fireworks and in 2003, killing up to 300,000 people
The U.S. Geological Survey said objects at officers. Police later found a ve- and driving 2.7 million from their
the epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean the associated press hicle containing large amounts of pepper homes.
about 35 miles southwest of the city of a gROUp Of pROTESTERS is surrounded spray, masks and helmets. The government said those figures are
Mapastepec, near the border with Gua- by riot police during a anti World The statement said “several” protest- exaggerated.
temala. economic Forum, WeF, demonstration in ers were charged with breaching the
It had a depth of 41 miles. Bern, switzerland, on saturday. peace. From Associated Press reports
Coordinated sect attack Divers find body inside capsized
kills 143 in north Nigeria cruise ship Coasta Concordia
BY JON gaMBREll aNd ■ The body of a spilling into the Mediterra- found, 21 people were list-
IBRaHIM gaRBa
woman wearing a life nean off Tuscany. ed as missing. One of the
the associated press Coast Guard Cmdr. women on the list is a Pe-
vest was recovered Cosimo Nicastro said that ruvian crew member, the
KANO, Nigeria — A co- from a narrow corridor the victim was found dur- others are passengers.
ordinated attack by a radi- inside the capsized ing a particularly risky in- Three bodies were found
cal Islamist sect in north spection of an evacuation in the waters near the ship
Nigeria’s largest city killed cruise ship Costa staging point at the ship’s in the first hours after the
at least 143 people, a hos- Concordia. rear. accident’ since then the rest
pital official said Saturday, “The corridor was very of the victims have all been
representing the extremist BY fRaNCES d’EMIlIO narrow, and the divers’ found inside the Concordia,
group’s deadliest assault aNd COllEEN BaRRY lines risked snagging” on apparently unable to get off
since beginning its cam- the associated press objects in the passageway, the ship during a chaotic
paign of terror in Africa’s Nicastro said. To permit evacuation via lifeboats
most populous nation. the associated press
ROME — The body of a the coast guard divers to and later by helicopters.
Soldiers and police offi- woman wearing a life vest get into the area, Italian Some survivors jumped off
cers swarmed Kano’s streets REd CROSS OffICIalS collect bodies of victims of Friday’s was recovered by Italian navy divers had preceded and swam to safety.
bomb blast and gun attacks from a street in Kano, Nigeria,
as Nigeria’s president again coast guard divers Saturday them, setting off charges The Concordia hit a reef
on saturday.
promised the sect known as from a narrow underwater to blast holes for easier en- and ran aground on Jan.
Boko Haram would “face the corridor of the capsized trance and exit, he said. 13, while passengers dined,
full wrath of the law.” But the 143 people were killed in city, with many remaining cruise ship Costa Concor- The woman’s national- about two hours after the
uniformed bodies of security the attack. home as soldiers and police dia, raising the death toll to ity and identity were not ship had set sail from the
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agents that filled a Kano hos- The official spoke on patrolled the streets and 12 in the week-old accident immediately known. port of Civitavecchia on
pital mortuary again showed condition of anonymity be- setup roadblocks. Gun- that has sent some light fuel Before the corpse was the Tyrrhenian Sea.
the sect can strike at will cause he wasn’t authorized shots echoed through some
against the country’s weak to release the death toll to areas of the city into Satur-
central government. journalists. The toll still day morning.
Friday’s attacks hit police could rise, since other bod- Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a
stations, immigration offic- ies could be held at other spokesman for the Nigerian
es and the local headquar- clinics and hospitals in the Red Cross, said volunteers of-
ters of Nigeria’s secret po- sprawling city. fered first aid to the wounded,
lice in Kano, a city of more State authorities enforced and evacuated those seriously
than 9 million people that a 24-hour curfew in the injured to local hospitals.
remains an important po-
litical and religious center in
the country’s Muslim north.
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