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WORLD NEWSSaturday 12 September
India: 12 guilty in 2006 Mumbai train bombings Chinese district
threatens to kill
NEW DELHI (AP) — Twelve A defendant, one of the 13 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings case leaves for the all its pet dogs
suspected Islamic militants
were convicted Friday in prison after the court verdict, in Mumbai, India, Friday Sept. 11, 2015. Twelve suspected Islamic BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese
the bombings nine years district government is giv-
ago of seven Mumbai militants were convicted Friday for the bombings nine years ago of seven Mumbai commuter ing dog owners a stark
commuter trains that killed choice: Get rid of your
188 people and wounded trains that killed 188 people and wounded more than 800. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) pets or we’ll come to your
more than 800. home and kill them on the
The trial in India’s notori- spiracy was hatched by militant organization. nied the Indian claims. spot.
ously slow justice system Pakistan’s Directorate of The 12 convicted in the The neighboring countries Even in a country where
lasted more than seven Inter-Services Intelligence, case were believed to be- have fought three wars dog ownership is tightly
years. It concluded in Au- or ISI, and carried out by long to the Indian militant since their independence regulated, the order issued
gust last year, but Judge Lashkar-e-Taiba opera- group. from Britain in 1947 and this week by the Dayang
Yatin D. Shinde took one tives with help from the Lashkar-e-Taiba is a Paki- have been engaged in a New District in the eastern
year to write the verdict. Students’ Islamic Move- stan-based Islamic militant fitful peace process in re- city of Jinan is extreme.
He found 12 defendants ment of India, a banned group. Pakistan has de- cent years.q “No person is permitted to
guilty of murder and crimi- keep a dog of any kind,”
nal conspiracy and ac- said the notice posted
quitted one person for on gateposts around the
lack of evidence. Shinde community of mostly high-
said he would announce rise apartment blocks.
the sentences on Monday “Deal with it on your own,
after hearing arguments or else the committee will
from the prosecutors and organize people to enter
defense attorneys. The your home and club the
defendants face possible dog to death right there.”
death penalties or life in Regional governments
prison. have killed stray animals
Seven bombs exploded before, but Dayang’s or-
within a span of 10 minutes der also covers dogs that
during the evening rush have been registered and
hour on trains in Mumbai, vaccinated.
the financial and enter- Culls often follow out-
tainment capital of India, breaks of rabies, a disease
on July 11, 2006. that kills about 2,000 Chi-
Prosecutors said the con- nese each year, but the
order cites only the main-
South Korea: tenance of environmental
hygiene and “everyone’s
Man gets 12 years for slashing US ambassador normal lives” as reasons.
People who answered
HYUNG-JIN KIM to determine whether to bassador. The drills, which sador’s arm as he tried to calls Friday at the district
Associated Press appeal, Maeng said. Pros- block the attack. During government office said no
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ecutors had previously are meant as a deterrent earlier police questioning, one was available to dis-
— A Seoul court on Friday asked for a 15-year prison Kim also said South Ko- cuss the matter.
handed a 12-year prison term. against North Korean at- rea is a semi-colony of the However, an unidentified
sentence to a South Ko- Kim slashed Mark Lippert U.S. and that North Ko- worker from the Dayang
rean man who slashed during a breakfast forum in tack, are a major source reahas an independent, village committee inter-
and seriously injured the Seoul, leaving deep gash- self-reliant government, viewed by a local televi-
U.S. ambassador during a es on the envoy’s face and of friction on the Korean according to Seoul po- sion station insisted the or-
March forum. arm. Lippert was treated lice. Shortly after his arrest, der was the will of the ma-
Kim Ki-jong was convicted for five days at a Seoul hos- Peninsula. Pyongyang Kim shouted that the U.S.- jority of the district’s more
of attempted murder, as- pital. South Korea war games than 1,000 residents.
saulting a foreign envoy Kim has described himself says they are practice for were an obstacle against “Dogs are always defecat-
and obstruction, accord- as an anti-U.S. activist. He a Korean unification. The ing all over the place and
ing to Seoul Central District told police that his assault a northward invasion to Korean Peninsula remains bothering people. A lot of
Court spokesman Joon was meant to protest an- in a technical state of war people were complaining
Young Maeng. nual U.S.-South Korean topple the dictatorship since the 1950-53 Korean so we wrote a public no-
Both Kim and the pros- military drills but that he did War ended with an armi- tice to avoid a conflict,”
ecution have one week not intend to kill the am- that has ruled the country stice, not a peace treaty.q the man said.q
since its founding in 1948.
U.S. and South Korean of-
ficials say the drills are de-
fensive in nature. Police
said Kim attempted to kill
Lippert because he knifed
him more than twice with
a force that was enough
to penetrate the ambas-
