Mob beats child killer to death after jail escape

Bungoma: A Kenyan man who confessed to killing a dozen children has been beaten to death by a mob after escaping from a police station.

Masten Wanjala was killed near his home in Bungoma county, a day after he escaped from police cells in Nairobi.

Police said Wanjala was identified after he played with locals in a football match. Some then trailed him and beat him to death.

“The law of the jungle as applied by irate villagers prevailed,” Kenyan police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations wrote in a tweet yesterday.

Authorities have said Wanjala confessed to killing 12 children in Nairobi, Machakos and Bungoma counties when he was arrested in July. He reportedly posed as a football coach to lure victims.

California: Former US president Bill Clinton is in hospital for treatment for a non-covid-related infection.

Spokesman Angel Urena said Mr Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Centre on Tuesday evening.

Mr Urena added Mr Clinton “is on the mend, in good spirits and is incredibly thankful to the doctors, nurses and staff providing him with excellent care”.

A second statement from Mr Clinton’s spokesman quoted physicians Dr Alpesh Amin and Dr Lisa Bardack, who said the former president has been “administered IV antibiotics and fluids”.

“After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well,” the doctors said.

Naypyitaw: The lawyer for Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is being tried on multiple criminal charges, said he has been issued a gagging order barring him from talking about her case.

Khin Maung Zaw wrote on his Facebook page that the action against him was taken under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, a broadly worded statute from British colonial times intended to deal with emergency situations that threaten public safety.

“My mouth is under 144,” is how he explained the situation.

The law is normally used to restrict public gatherings and impose curfews, and was used by the military after it ousted Ms Suu Kyi’s elected government in February.

Kyi Win, another lawyer on Suu Kyi’s legal team, said the township office in the capital Naypyitaw, where Ms

Suu Kyi is being tried, summoned Khin Maung Zaw to have him sign an undertaking not to reveal information to the media.

The practical effect of the order will be to choke off almost any first-hand accounts of the ongoing trials in which Suu Kyi and her co-defendants are involved.

Seoul: Police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of a motel and attempting to extort money from hundreds of guests who were filmed.

The suspects are reported to have bribed a motel employee to install tiny cameras on computers in each room.

South Korean police have investigated nearly 30,000 cases of crime related to hidden cameras in the past five years.