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MAROUA, Cameroon- U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power s trip to Cameroon s front lines inthe war against Boko Haram started horrifical mizuno running ly Monday as an armored jeep in her motorcade struck and killed a young boy who darted into the road.The incident occurred near the small city of Moloko, in northern Cameroon, where Power, her aides and accompanying journalists were head yeezy ed to meet refugees and others displaced by the years of brutal attacks across West Africa.All those meetings included small children.Power said she learned of the death with great sorrow. She said she met with the boy s family to offer our profound condolences and our grief and heartbreak. Power returned to the scene of the bloody accident several hours later to meet the 7-year-old boy s mother and father, while residents of his village stood solemnly on a sandy expanse.The motorcade was moving at a fast clip, at times exceeding 6 crocs winterstiefel 0 mph, while villagers lined up along the sides of the road. But when the boy darted onto the two-lane highway, there was no time for the sixth car in Power s convoy to react. The driver was Cameroonian.At the moment of impact, a man could be seen running up the embankment, with his arms held high, to the street to try to stop the child. A Cameroonian helicopter traveling overhead as part of a large security contingent saw the collision.The vehicle that hit the boy initially stopped, but was ordered by American security forces to continue traveling through the unsecured area. An a Ozfm Russia Moves To Thwart Future Terror
A road crash that triggered deadly anti-American rioting in Kabul occurred because a military truck lost its brakes coming down a hill and plowed into a line of cars, the U.S. military said Tuesday.Chanting Death to America, rioters on Monday stoned the U.S. convoy involved in the accident, then headed to the center of Kabul, ransacking offices of international aid groups and searching for foreigners. Smoke billowed from burning buildings.The death toll from the unrest rose to 11, most of the stanley cup website m from gunshot wounds, accord stanley cup ing to three city hospitals. More than 100 people were wounded.Up to five people were killed in the accident, but it wasn t clear whether these deaths were among the tolls the hospitals reported.Military spokesman Col. Tom Collins, in explaining the cause of the traffic accident, said the truck s brakes apparently overheated and failed as it came down the long hill. The driver, very experienced in the operation of this type of vehicle, a heavy cargo truck, applied the primary and emergency brakes and took evasive action to avoid hitting pedestrians, Collins said.The truck hit several unoccupied parked cars in an effort to slow, but it wasn t enough, and the truck hit occupied vehicles at an intersection, he said. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of those killed and injured in this unfortunate traffic accident, Collins said.The military will compensate the victims or their families, the spokesman said, adding that a full investiga
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usgn Castro Leads Anti-Embargo March - by CharlesteGeork - 12-19-2024, 03:05 PM

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