News in Brief -2024-10-07

Trump rallies at site of failed assassination
BUTLER, Oct 06: Donald Trump defiantly returned Saturday to the site of a campaign rally where an assassin's bullet almost killed him in July, questioning whether his opponents were responsible and declaring he would "never quit." "Exactly 12 weeks ago this evening, on this very ground, a cold-blooded assassin aimed to silence me," the Republican candidate told tens of thousands of supporters after taking the stage behind bulletproof glass. Calling the gunman a "vicious monster," Trump vowed he would "never quit... never bend... never break" to cheers of "fight, fight, fight" from the crowd. Trump's much-hyped return to Butler, Pennsylvania, came exactly one month before the November 5 presidential election, the outcome of which President Joe Biden suggested on Friday might not be peaceful. —AFP
Seven perish in Mumbai residential bldg fire
MUMBAI, Oct 06: Seven persons, including three minors, were killed after a fire broke out in a double-storey shop-cum-residential structure in Mumbai on Sunday morning, a fire official said. The incident took place at 5.20 am at Siddharth Colony in Chembur area, he said. The ground floor of the structure was used as a shop and the upper floor as residence, the official said. The blaze was confined to the electric wiring and installations in the shop at the ground floor and spread to the upper floor, he said, adding it was a 'level-one' fire. Seven persons were injured in the incident. They were taken to the Rajawadi Hospital where all of them were declared brought dead, the official said. —PTI
Massacre of 18 relatives: 3 held in S Africa
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 06: South African police have arrested three people in connection with the killing of 18 relatives-mostly women-gunned down at a rural homestead a week ago, the police minister said Sunday. A fourth suspect was being sought for the massacre in the early hours of September 28 in the Eastern Cape province, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu announced at a memorial near the site of the killing. Gunmen opened fire inside two homes in Lusikisiki, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of the coastal city of Durban, killing 17 people. —AFP