2 officers, 3 others shot dead in Nevada
LAS VEGAS – Two suspects shot and killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Walmart, authorities said.
A man and woman walked into CiCi’s Pizza and shot at point-blank range Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, who were eating lunch, Las Vegas police officials said. One of the officers was able to fire back before he died, but it’s unclear if he hit the suspects, Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
One of the suspects yelled, “This is a revolution,” but the motive for the shooting remains under investigation, Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield told The Associated Press.
After shooting the officers, the suspects fled to the Walmart across the street, where they fatally shot a person inside the front door and exchanged gunfire with police before killing themselves in an apparent suicide pact, police said. The female suspect shot the male suspect before killing herself, Gillespie said.
El-Sissi sworn in as Egypt’s new president
CAIRO – Egypt’s former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, winner by a landslide in last month’s presidential election, was sworn into office Sunday nearly a year after he ousted the nation’s first freely elected leader.
The retired field marshal called for unity and hard work, while vowing there would be no reconciliation with those who took up arms against the government and Egyptians. That was a thinly veiled reference to supporters of Mohammed Morsi, the Islamist president el-Sissi removed last July, and Islamic militants waging attacks against the government.
El-Sissi’s rise coincides with detention of thousands and the killing of hundreds of Morsi supporters.
24 students feared drowned in India
NEW DELHI – Police say 24 students are feared drowned after they were swept away by strong waters in a river near a mountainous tourist resort in northern India.
Police officer Dina Nath said a sudden discharge of water into the Beas River on Sunday from a dam upstream took the students by surprise while they were taking pictures on a river bank near Manali, 330 miles north of New Delhi.
The engineering students had come to the tourist town in Himachal Pradesh state from the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
Nath said a rescue operation by security forces was hampered by nightfall and it would resume Monday morning.
Associated Press
