Briefs, February 3, 2013
As a police stand-off with a man accused of holding a five-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe.
MIDLAND CITY, Alabam a - As a police stand-off with a man accused of holding a five-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker entered its fifth day, authorities were saying little except that their talks with the 65-year-old loner were continuing through a ventilation pipe. Police have said they believe that Vietnam-era war veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes fatally shot a school-bus driver on Tuesday, and then abducted the boy from the bus and disappeared into the home-made bunker. AP
RIYADH - A Saudi preacher who raped his five-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay "blood money" to the mother after having served a short jail term, activists said. Lamia al-Ghamdi died in October of last year from multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns, the activists said. Fayhan al-Ghamdi, an Islamic preacher, confessed to having used cables and a cane to inflict the injuries, the activists from the group Women to Drive said. AFP