14 People Killed, 50 Injured in Denver Cinema Shooting
A gunman killed at least 14 people and injured 50 others early Friday at a suburban Denver, Colorado, movie theater, authorities said.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said 10 people were killed when gunfire erupted at a theater showing the latest Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” and four others died at area hospitals.
Oates said that a 24-year-old suspect was in custody and there was no evidence of a second shooter.
A gas mask, a rifle and handguns were found in the suspect’s vehicle. An apartment building in north Aurora connected to the suspect was being evacuated and searched for possible explosives.
Witnesses said the masked man wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire and set off a smoke bomb at the Century 16 Movie Theater in Aurora Mall, located on the southeast outskirts of Denver.
“Witnesses tell us he released some sort of canister. They heard a hissing sound and some gas emerged and the gunman opened fire,” Oates said at a news conference.
Police and firefighters rushed to the mall shortly after the shootings occurred around 12:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT).
CNN reported at least 20 people were being treated for gunshot wounds in hospital, three of them in serious condition.
One in Every 10 Mexicans Lacks Birth Certificate
At least 10 percent of Mexico”s population currently lack a birth certificate, preventing them from enjoying basic rights such as access to social programs, according to a study from the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM).
The lack of the document also makes it impossible for those citizens to have bank accounts or a voter registration card, which puts them in a legal limbo, said Oscar Ortiz, director of the Be Foundation Right to Identity.
According to La Jornada newspaper, the manager of the NGO explained that this invisible population is mostly made up of children and elderly people in rural and indigenous areas.
The phenomenon also occurs in large cities, specified Ortiz, who said this population is an easy target for organized crime because of their tenuous legal existence.
According to Be Foundation, states with lower levels of coverage are Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelos and Michoacan, while the most complete records are located in Aguascalientes, Yucatan, Queretaro, Zacatecas and Jalisco.
Though reliable data is unavailable, it is estimated that out of 2,500,000 annual births in the country, around 600,000 are never registered, Ortiz noted.
The Mexican population is currently estimated at over 112,300,000.
Saudi Arabia Names Former Ambassador to U.S. as Intelligence Chief
King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz appointed as intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia, Prince Badar Bin Sultan, who will also continue as general secretary of the National Security Council, reported the Wahhabi royal court.
An edict of the King broadcasted on state television said that Sultan Bin, who served as Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, replaced Prince Abdelaziz bin Moqren, appointed by another decree adviser and special envoy of the king.
Sultan Bin was assigned to the National Security Council in 2005, just when Saudi Arabia launched a major offensive against al-Qaeda army, after the radical Islamist network attacked this country many times.
The newly appointed officer was born in 1949 and he is the son of Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, who died in October 2011.
Via PL