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Tuesday 16 July 2019
Police stop 4 kids who drove SUV 600 miles down Aussie coast

By ROD McGUIRK The children are suspected
Associated Press of failing to pay for fuel at
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) Outback gas stations in the
— Four children aged 10 to Queensland town of Ba-
14 packed fishing rods in a nana and the New South
parent's SUV, left a farewell Wales town of Warialda,
note then drove more than police said.
1,000 kilometers (600 miles) They were also chased by
down the Australian east police in the New South
coast before they were Wales town of Glen Innes,
stopped by police the next where a 13-year-old was
day after two fuel thefts suspected to be driving,
and one aborted pursuit, Williams said.
officers said on Monday. "There was a short pursuit
When the children were up there with the Highway
stopped by police near Patrol and due to the age
Grafton in New South Wales of the driver and the road
state at 10:40 p.m. Sunday, conditions, that was termi-
they locked the doors and nated by the Highway Pa-
refused to get out, Acting trol officers ... and the gen-
Police Inspector Darren Wil- eral duties police that were
liams said. involved," he said.
A police officer used a The 14-year-old lived in
baton to break a window Grafton, which might have
of the 2004 Nissan Patrol, been the children's desti-
which had been reported nation, Williams said.
stolen by worried parents, In this image made from video, New South Wales state police Acting Inspector Darren Williams Banana Truck Stop cashier
speaks about child drivers during a news conference in Coffs Harbour, Australia, Monday, July
Williams said. 15, 2019. Harry White said the SUV
Police were not sure which Associated Press drove off without paying
child or children drove or for diesel at 4:35 a.m. Sun-
why they left Rockhamp- 13-year-old boys and a "It's a long way, in excess of ine one person actually day. He estimated that
ton in Queensland state 10-year-old girl. 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) driving all that way in two the children must have left
on Saturday. The children Williams said they possibly from Rockhampton down days," Williams told report- Rockhampton around mid-
are a 14-year-old boy, two shared the driving. to Grafton. I couldn't imag- ers. night. q

Workers recover hundreds of bodies from Syrian mass grave

Associated Press graves starting from Janu-
BEIRUT (AP) — In an open ary 2018.
field on the outskirts of the The mass grave discovered
Syrian city of Raqqa, work- in mid-June in al-Fukheikha
ers in black uniforms, surgi- agricultural fields south of
cal masks and red hard- the city is the latest grave
hats toil under a scorching located in and around
sun to dig up bodies from Raqqa to date.
a large mass grave discov- An Associated Press video
ered last month. showed workers on a re-
They have so far unearthed cent day wearing surgical
313 bodies from the grave masks using shovels to dig
since it was discovered last up bodies from the field.
month, the official said. Forensic workers then put
All of the dead are men, the remains in white body
women and children be- bags, marking them with
lieved to have been killed the date and location and
or died during the Islamic other details.
State group's rule over the Asaad Mohammed, a fo-
northern city, once the de rensic worker, said workers
facto capital of the extrem- were exhuming an aver-
ist group's so-called Islamic This Sunday, July 14, 2019 frame grab from video, shows Syrian workers of the Civil Council of age of 10 to 12 bodies on
caliphate and the site of Raqqa digging for human remains at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of daily basis.
atrocities committed by civilians and Islamic State militants, in Raqqa. "We inspect the body, iden-
the group against residents Associated Press tify the sex, age, time of
who opposed its extremist death, cause of death. We
ideology. retook Raqqa from IS in city, amid concerns about need in terms of forensic take samples from each
The group at the time com- 2017 after a lengthy cam- the preservation of bodies expertise and human re- body and give it a number,
manded large swathes of paign that left the city in and evidence for possible sources. we document it on official
territory in Syria and Iraq ruins. Since then, an orga- war crimes trials. Interna- Yasser al-Khamees, who papers and then save the
that it administered based nization known as the Civil tional human rights groups leads a team of first re- information on a computer
on its own radical version of Council of Raqqa has been say they are concerned sponders, said workers database along with sam-
Islamic rule. working to uncover mass that local groups are not have unearthed 4,760 bod- ples taken from this area,"
U.S.-backed Syrian forces graves in and around the getting the support they ies from a series of mass he said.q