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WORLD NEWS Friday 4 OctOber 2024
6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican

army troops open fire

By MARK STEVENSON of gunshot wounds. The De-
Associated Press fense Department did not
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- say whether the migrants
can army troops opened died as a result of army fire,
fire on a truck carrying mi- and Sheinbaum refused to
grants from a half dozen say whether any weapons
countries, and six migrants were found in the migrants’
from Egypt, Peru and El Sal- truck.
vador died in an event that There were 17 other mi-
President Claudia Shein- grants in the truck who
baum described Thursday were unharmed. The ve-
as “deplorable.” hicle was carrying a total
Ten other migrants were of 33 migrants. The area is
wounded in the shooting. a common route for smug-
Sheinbaum did not say gling migrants, who are of-
how many migrants from ten packed into crowded
each country had been freight trucks. It has also
killed, and Mexico’s foreign been the scene of drug
relations department was cartel turf battles, and the
not immediately able to department said the trucks
provide details. “were similar to those used
Peru’s Foreign Ministry con- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing from the National Palace in Mexico by criminal groups in the
firmed one Peruvian was City, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, the morning after her inauguration. region.” The two soldiers
killed and demanded “an Associated Press who opened fire were also
urgent investigation” into relieved of duty pending in-
the killings. The two coun- She said the shootings were human rights,” Sheinbaum the department said the vestigations. In Mexico, any
tries have had damaged being investigated to see said, as she promised wage first vehicle in a three- incident involving civilians is
relations since a 2022 diplo- if any commanders might increases for soldiers and truck convoy appeared to subject to civilian prosecu-
matic spat. face punishment, and not- sailors. speed away from soldiers. tion, but soldiers can also
Sheinbaum said the two ed “a situation like this can- The shootings Tuesday oc- Two soldiers fired on an- face court-martial for those
soldiers who opened fire not be repeated.” curred near the town of other of the trucks, which offenses.
on Tuesday, her first day But she left out any men- Huixtla, in the southern state was also carrying migrants Irineo Mujica, a migrant
in office, had been turned tion of that later Thursday of Chiapas near the border from Nepal, Cuba, India, rights activist who has fre-
over to civilian prosecu- at massive at a Mexico City with Guatemala, Mexico’s Pakistan and at least one quently accompanied
tors for questioning, but army base, where army Defense Department said other country. Soldiers then caravans of migrants in
apparently had not yet and navy commanders Wednesday in a statement. approached the truck and that area of Chiapas, said
been charged. It was the pledged their loyalty to her The department said that found four of the migrants he doubted the migrants or
worst killing of migrants by in front of massed com- soldiers claimed they heard dead, and 12 wounded. their smugglers opened fire.
authorities in Mexico since bat vehicles and hundreds shots as a convoy of three Two of the wounded later “It is really impossible that
police in the northern state of troops. “In our country, trucks approached the sol- died of their injuries. these people would have
of Tamaulipas killed 17 mi- there is not a state of siege, diers’ position. In a some- Local prosecutors con- been shooting at the
grants in 2021. there are no violations of what confused account, firmed all the victims died army,” Mujica said. q

An American bomb from WWII explodes at a Japanese airport,

leaving a crater on the taxiway

By MARI YAMAGUCHI a crater in the taxiway reportedly about 7
Associated Press meters (yards) in diameter and 1 meter (3
TOKYO (AP) — An unexploded U.S. bomb feet) deep.
from World War II that had been buried at Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayas-
a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, hi said more than 80 flights had been can-
causing a large crater in a taxiway and celed at the airport as of midafternoon
the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Wednesday.
Japanese officials said. The airport said the taxiway damage was
No one was hurt, and there were no air- repaired overnight and flights resumed
craft nearby when the bomb exploded Thursday morning.
at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan, Miyazaki Airport was built in 1943 as a for-
Land and Transport Ministry officials said. mer Imperial Japanese Navy flight training
An investigation by the Self-Defense Forc- field from which some pilots took off on sui-
es and police confirmed the explosion was cide attack missions.
caused by a 500-pound U.S. bomb and A number of unexploded bombs dropped
there was no further danger. Officials were by the U.S. military during World War II have
determining what caused its sudden deto- been unearthed in the area, Defense Min-
nation. istry officials said.
A video recorded by a nearby aviation Hundreds of tons of unexploded bombs This photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a
school showed the blast spewing pieces of from the war remain buried around Japan damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan,
asphalt into the air like a fountain. Videos and are sometimes dug up at construction Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, after an explosion was reported.
Associated Press
broadcast on Japanese television showed sites.q