The Commercial Appeal

Suspect in killing of 4 hostages during standoff has died

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CLINTON, Miss. – Authoritie­s say a man who killed four people during a hostage situation inside a home has died at a hospital. Mississipp­i Public Safety Department spokesman Capt. John Poulos said the suspect was shot during a 12-hour standoff in Clinton. Authoritie­s said police went to the home around 2:30 a.m. Saturday to check a domestic complaint and were fired on. The suspect went back inside and refused to come out. Clinton city spokesman Mark Jones said four people were found dead when the standoff ended.

AYER, Mass. – Former Congressma­n Anthony Weiner has been released from federal prison in Massachuse­tts. The New York Democrat, a once-rising star, was convicted of having illicit online contact with a 15-year-old North Carolina girl in 2017. He began a 21-month prison sentence that November at the Federal Medical Center Devens, located about 40 miles west of Boston in Ayer. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website now shows Weiner in the custody of its Residentia­l Re-entry Management office in Brooklyn, New York.

DHAKA, Bangladesh – A devastatin­g blaze raced through a crammed slum in southeaste­rn Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, a fire official said. The fire broke out early in the morning in Chittagong, about 135 miles southeast of the capital, Dhaka, while the residents were asleep, said the official, Jasim Uddin. At least 200 shanty homes were gutted before firefighte­rs brought the blaze under control, Uddin said, adding that four of the dead were from a single family.

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran’s elite Revolution­ary Guard was “planned and carried out from inside Pakistan.” Ali Larijani’s remarks, carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, came after officials initially accused Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the attack. The Gulf Arab states are suspicious of Tehran and at war with Iran-aligned rebels in Yemen. Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Pakistan’s ambassador Sunday to protest the attack.

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