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WORLD NEWSThursday 28 December 2017

Iceland: Crash kills Chinese tourist, critically injures 12

By EGILL BJARNASON The Icelandic blood bank Police say the bus flipped is narrow and had some ic- The car’s driver and a pas-
Associated Press sent out an alert for dona- on its side when it went off ing from what I gather,” senger also were tourists,
SELFOSS, Iceland (AP) — tions of type O blood fol- the road, trapping two pas- Ulfarsson told The Associat- visiting Iceland from Lithu-
Police in Iceland say one lowing the accident on sengers underneath. One ed Press. Three helicopters ania. They were not injured,
person was killed and 12 Route 1, a national road died at the scene. were used to transport the officials said. South Iceland
more were critically injured that runs around the island. Bus company owner Fjalar most severely injured to a Police said an initial inves-
Wednesday when a bus The car and bus crashed Ulfarsson said the Chinese hospital emergency room tigation suggested the car
carrying 46 Chinese tourists near the Eldhraun lava group was on the fourth in the capital. A relief sta- slowed down in front of
skidded off the road after field, about 250 kilometers day of a weeklong visit to tion was set up for the other the bus while attempting
a rear-end collision with a (155 miles) east of Reykja- Iceland when the accident 33 passengers in nearby to turn toward a lookout
compact car. vik, Iceland’s capital. happened. “The road there Kirkjubaejarklaustur village. point.q

Russia: Explosion injures 10 at St. Petersburg supermarket

Police stand at the entrance of a supermarket, after an explosion in St.Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017. Russian Another local resident,
officials say at least 10 people have been injured by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg. Marina Bulanova, a doc-
tor, heard the explosion
(AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) and rushed to the market
to help treat anyone who
By IRINA TITOVA went off at a storage area talized with injuries. anti-terror efforts in Russia might be hurt. She said
Associated Press for customers’ bags. It said Andrey Kibitov, a spokes- said it was coordinating the ambulance crews already
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) the device was rigged with man for St. Petersburg’s search for suspects. had taken those injured to
— At least 10 people were shrapnel to cause more governor, tweeted that Viktoria Gordeyeva, a St. city hospitals by the time
injured Wednesday by an damage. the injured were in satisfac- Petersburg resident who she got there.
explosion at a supermarket No one has claimed re- tory condition and one had walked past the supermar- Russian President Vladimir
in St. Petersburg, Russia’s sponsibility for the explosion been discharged from the ket shortly after the explo- Putin telephoned U.S. Presi-
second-largest city and at a branch of the Perekre- hospital. sion, said people were dent Donald Trump ear-
the site of a deadly subway stok supermarket chain in A criminal investigation was afraid to enter other stores lier this month to thank him
bombing this year. the city’s northwest Kalinin- launched. in the area. for a CIA tip that helped
The Investigative Commit- sky district. While officials stopped “There was no panic, but thwart a series of bombings
tee, the nation’s top inves- Alexander Klaus, the chief short of branding the ex- people were reluctant to in St. Petersburg, Putin’s
tigative agency, said a de- of the local branch of the plosion as a terror attack, enter a nearby drug store home town.
vice containing 200 grams Investigative Committee, the National Anti-Terrorism and a grocery store,” The Federal Security Ser-
(7 ounces) of explosives said 10 people were hospi- Committee that oversees Gordeyeva said. vice, or FSB, said seven sus-
pects linked to the Islamic
State group were arrested
in connection to the al-
leged plot.
The Kremlin said the arrest-
ed suspects had planned
to bomb St. Petersburg’s
Kazan Cathedral and other
crowded sites.
In April, a suicide bombing
in the St. Petersburg’s sub-
way left 16 people dead
and wounded more than
50. Russian authorities iden-
tified the bomber who blew
himself up on a subway line
as Akbardzhon Dzhalilov,
a 22-year old Kyrgyz-born
Russian national.q

Poland PM: Cabinet reshuffling to be completed after Jan.6

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Po- works. There’s been pressure ment focus on the economy overhaul was necessary to ment after Epiphany, the day
land’s new prime minister, for Defense Minister Antoni and improve ties with Euro- make the justice system more Christians observe the visit
Mateusz Morawiecki, said Macierewicz and Foreign Min- pean Union leaders. efficient. The EU has said it the three wise men made to
Wednesday that all planned ister Witold Waszczykowski to In response to changes to the contravenes democratic prin- baby Jesus. Western Chris-
changes in the makeup of be dismissed. justice system promoted by ciples. Morawiecki is sched- tians observe it on Jan. 6.
his Cabinet should be known The only significant change so the conservative ruling party, uled to discuss the situation Poland’s health and envi-
shortly after Jan. 6. far was Morawiecki’s promo- the EU’s executive commis- with European Commission ronment ministers also are
Poland’s ruling Law and Jus- tion from finance minister to sion a week ago initiated a President Jean-Claude Junck- among the Cabinet mem-
tice party has suggested for prime minister this month. procedure that could lead to er on Jan. 9. Morawiecki said bers that commentators
several months a government Party leaders said he was put sanctions on Poland. that “we will know all the pos- have speculated might be
reshuffling could be in the in the job to help the govern- The government insists the sible changes” in his govern- removed.q