Air France Flight 463 en route toParis fromMauritius makes an emergency landing inMombasa,Kenya, after a package, suspected to be a bomb is found in the toilet. Later,Air France CEOFrédéric Gagey says it was a false alarm; the package contained a mixture of cardboard, sheets of paper, and a timer.(AP via News24)(CNN)(Reuters)
A missile-strike inJaramana in southernSyria kills high-rankingLebaneseHezbollah commanderSamir Kuntar and eightNational Defence Force (NDF) personnel. The responsibility for the incident taken by theFree Syrian Army, though Hezbollah alleges Israeli involvement. Kuntar was the longest serving Lebanese prisoner inIsrael until hisrelease in 2008. On April 22, 1979 Kuntar and his team broke into an apartment building and kidnapped a father, 31-year-old Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, taking them to a nearby beach and killing them.(Reuters)
Airstrikes, apparently fromRussian jets, kill scores of people in the center of rebel-heldIdlib in northwestSyria. Themissiles hit a busy market place, several government buildings, and residential areas. At least 73 bodies, 30 unidentified, have been recovered.(Reuters)
Thirty-three buildings collapse after a landslide hit an industrial park inShenzhen,China, leaving at least 91 people missing.(CNN)
An avalanche inSvalbard, aNorwegianArcticarchipelago, kills one and injures nine others as the snow smashes into 10 houses inLongyearbyen. The deluge from Sukkertoppen mountain follows Friday's 60 mph storm that ripped off a school roof and temporarily closed the airport. Dozens of homes at the foot of the mountain were evacuated and all of the area's residents have been located, according to Tone Hertzberg, a spokeswoman for Svalbard's governor. Experts fromNorges Geotekniske Institutt are examining nearby slopes.(AP via CBS News)(newsinenglish.no)
Aferry ran into trouble in rough seas off the coast ofIndonesia's island ofSulawesi, with at least three killed, including two children, 39 rescued, and 77 missing. The New Marina, afiberglass boat, was reported to be carrying 109 passengers with a crew of 10. TheNational Search and Rescue Agency says the boat sank 22.5 km (24 miles) off the coast of theWajo Regency inSouth Sulawesi. Rescue teams expect to resume their search for the missing, Monday.(BenarNews)(Muscat Daily)
