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Two U.S. tourists were injured by a crocodile at Mexico s Puerto Vallarta resort when one went swimming in the ocean at night and the other went in the water to help him.The civil defense office in the western state of Jalisco said Wednesday the first American suffered bites to his legs, arm, abdomen and chest. The second, who went in the water to help, suffered a wound to his hand. The office said both men were given first aid at the scene. It said both men were from Colorado, but did not specify a hometown for either.Crocodilesare a not infrequent sights in the coastal wetlands and shores of the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Australia has also seen multiple crocodile attacks inrecent years. The crocodile attack comes after several reports of deadly attacks this summer by alligators, which look similar to crocodiles but are a different animal. Last week, an elderly woman was killed by two alligatorsin a pond near her Florida home. Prior to that attack, an unidentified victim died after analligatordragged them into a pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Weeks earlier, Florida police found a deceased 47-year-old man in a gator-in af1 fested lakemissing three limbs after a likely encounter with alli adidas samba uomo gators. More from CBS News adidas campus 80s 3 climbers from U.S., Canada believed dead in fall from New Zealand Gqzx 3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz
Updated at 6:48 p.m. EDTAfghanistan s election commission Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai s votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second-round vote.The announcement came two months to the day after the first-round vote and follows weeks of political uncertainty at a time when Taliban strength is growing.Karz stanley quencher ai said final results showing the need for a runoff were legitimate, legal and according to the constitution of Afghanistan. The Afghan leader spoke at a press conference alongside U.S. Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the head of the U.N. in Afghanistan, Kai Eide - a sign of the intense international pressure which preceded the announcement. Karzai and Kerry were in ta stanley cup lks as late a stanley cup s Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that up until the last moment there was a chance he would return to insisting on a first-round victory.CBSNews Special Report: AfghanistanPresident Barack Obama welcomed Karzai s willingness to run in a new election against his main rival Abdullah Abdullah, saying his decision established an important precedent for Afghanistan s new democracy. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also commended Karzai, as did U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban, however, also stressed that a runoff will be a huge challenge and promised more help from the world body. Shortly before th
Two U.S. tourists were injured by a crocodile at Mexico s Puerto Vallarta resort when one went swimming in the ocean at night and the other went in the water to help him.The civil defense office in the western state of Jalisco said Wednesday the first American suffered bites to his legs, arm, abdomen and chest. The second, who went in the water to help, suffered a wound to his hand. The office said both men were given first aid at the scene. It said both men were from Colorado, but did not specify a hometown for either.Crocodilesare a not infrequent sights in the coastal wetlands and shores of the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta. Australia has also seen multiple crocodile attacks inrecent years. The crocodile attack comes after several reports of deadly attacks this summer by alligators, which look similar to crocodiles but are a different animal. Last week, an elderly woman was killed by two alligatorsin a pond near her Florida home. Prior to that attack, an unidentified victim died after analligatordragged them into a pond in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Weeks earlier, Florida police found a deceased 47-year-old man in a gator-in af1 fested lakemissing three limbs after a likely encounter with alli adidas samba uomo gators. More from CBS News adidas campus 80s 3 climbers from U.S., Canada believed dead in fall from New Zealand Gqzx 3 Mexico journalists slain, dumped in bags in drug gang-plagued Veracruz
Updated at 6:48 p.m. EDTAfghanistan s election commission Tuesday ordered a Nov. 7 runoff in the disputed presidential poll after a fraud investigation dropped incumbent Hamid Karzai s votes below 50 percent of the total. Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to a second-round vote.The announcement came two months to the day after the first-round vote and follows weeks of political uncertainty at a time when Taliban strength is growing.Karz stanley quencher ai said final results showing the need for a runoff were legitimate, legal and according to the constitution of Afghanistan. The Afghan leader spoke at a press conference alongside U.S. Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the head of the U.N. in Afghanistan, Kai Eide - a sign of the intense international pressure which preceded the announcement. Karzai and Kerry were in ta stanley cup lks as late a stanley cup s Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that up until the last moment there was a chance he would return to insisting on a first-round victory.CBSNews Special Report: AfghanistanPresident Barack Obama welcomed Karzai s willingness to run in a new election against his main rival Abdullah Abdullah, saying his decision established an important precedent for Afghanistan s new democracy. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also commended Karzai, as did U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban, however, also stressed that a runoff will be a huge challenge and promised more help from the world body. Shortly before th
