LEADER ORDERS ARRESTS AS FERRY DEATHS CLIMB OVER 130
Hundreds of solemn people watched Friday as body after body was pulled from a capsized ferry that Tanzanian authorities said was badly crowded and upended in the final stretch before reaching shore. The death toll was above 130, but horrified witnesses feared that would rise as a second day of searching neared an end.
“This is a great disaster for our nation,” President John Magufuli said. He announced four days of national mourning and urged calm in the East African country with a history of deadly maritime disasters. And he ordered arrests of all responsible as a criminal investigation began.
Sheriff says shooter had mental illness but legally owned gun.
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» The woman who
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Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told reporters Friday that the suspect, 26yearold Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County, had been diagnosed with a mental illness in 2016. “That’s as far as I’ll go with it,” he said, declining to give any more details about the illness.
He said Moseley had become increasingly agitated in recent weeks, and relatives had been con cerned for her wellbeing.
Gahler said she used a handgun that she legally purchased in March to fire a total of 13 rounds Thursday morning and died after shooting herself in the head.
Gahler identified the three people Moseley fatally shot as Sunday Aguda, a 45yearold man from Baltimore County; Hayleen Reyes, a 41yearold woman from Baltimore; and Brindra Giri, a 41yearold woman from Baltimore County.
A family friend said Giri was a mother of two and recent immigrant from Nepal whose relatives were devastated. Attempts to reach family members of the other victims were not immediately successful.
The sheriff identified the wounded survivors as Hassan Mitchell, a 19yearold man from Harford County; Wilfredo Villegas, a 45yearold man from Montgomery County; and Acharya Purna, a 45yearold man from New York.
Trump signs spending bill for agencies, Congress.
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» President Donald Trump has signed legislation to fund the Energy Department, veterans’ programs and the legislative branch, including Congress and the Capitol police.
Trump signed the measures Friday during an event at the VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, where he stressed his efforts to improve veterans’ care.
Congress last week approved the $147 billion package as part of an effort by congressional leaders to head off a government shutdown that Trump has threatened he might force over funding for his border wall.
The bill includes money for veterans’ health care, military infrastructure, the electrical grid and nuclear weapons programs.
It also provides a
$1.1 billion increase to pay for efforts to give veterans more freedom to see doctors outside the troubled VA system. And it will require Senate candidates to file electronic campaign finance reports.
Barrier Reef tourists warned after two shark attacks in two days.
Tourists were warned to keep out of the water in the Whitsunday Islands on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after two swimmers were critically hurt in shark attacks on consecutive days.
A 46yearold woman was mauled Wednesday and a 12yearold girl was attacked Thursday while swimming from yachts in Cid Harbor on Whitsunday Island, the largest in the group of islands that is a premier tourist destination.
The victims were in critical but stable condition with leg wounds in hospitals in Brisbane.
The girl is from Melbourne and had been on vacation with her father and sister. The woman is from Tasmania.
Japanese space rovers lowered to asteroid to collect data.
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» A Japanese spacecraft released two small rovers on an asteroid Friday in a mission that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.
The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two MinervaII1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft arrived near the asteroid, about 170 million miles from Earth, in June.
JAXA said confirmation of the robots’ safe touchdown has to wait until it receives data from them on Saturday. Hayabusa2 approached as close as 180 feet to the asteroid to lower the rovers, waited for a minute and rose back to its waiting position about 12 miles above the surface. JAXA said the release went successfully. The solarpowered rovers’ voltage plunged as night fell on Ryugu, a sign that they are on the asteroid, said spokesman Takashi Kubota.