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OMANDAILYOBSERVER<br />
12 TUESDAY<br />
l DECEMBER 13 l 2016<br />
INNOCENT LOOKS: A young girl in front of Cairo’s Coptic C<strong>at</strong>hedral after an explosion<br />
inside the c<strong>at</strong>hedral in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday. — Reuters<br />
SECURING THE STREETS: A soldier loyal to the Ansar Allah movement sits on a wall as he<br />
secures a street leading to the site of a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday. — Reuters<br />
LYON: Thieves held up a van transporting<br />
70 kg of gold in a dram<strong>at</strong>ic heist near the<br />
French city of Lyon on Monday, police<br />
sources said.<br />
Four robbers used two cars to block<br />
the van <strong>at</strong> a motorway exit leading to an<br />
industrial est<strong>at</strong>e north of Lyon, the sources<br />
said.<br />
After grabbing the gold and loading it<br />
into their getaway car, they locked the two<br />
security guards in the back of their van.<br />
Before making off, they set fire to their<br />
abandoned vehicle.<br />
The fire gutted the car and spread to<br />
nearby vehicles but police arrived on the<br />
scene before it engulfed the van, freeing<br />
the two guards who escaped unharmed,<br />
the investig<strong>at</strong>ors said.<br />
The robbery took place <strong>at</strong> an exit from<br />
the A6 motorway th<strong>at</strong> connects the city<br />
with Paris.<br />
Police were hunting the assailants.<br />
France has experienced a growing<br />
number of motorway hijackings in recent<br />
Breaking with<br />
coming-of-age<br />
tradition to<br />
save the lion<br />
KIMANA: Under the shadow of a<br />
snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro,<br />
hundreds of Maasai boys brave the<br />
morning chill to take part in a ritual<br />
th<strong>at</strong> marks their coming of age.<br />
But those vying to become a ‘moran’,<br />
or warrior, in the biennial ‘Maasai<br />
Olympics’ were not there to hurl their<br />
spears <strong>at</strong> lions as their ancestors did.<br />
Instead, the would-be morans, their<br />
cheeks smeared with ochre, hurled<br />
their javelins deep into the veldt in<br />
the Sidai Oleng Wildlife Sanctuary in<br />
Kenya’s southern Rift Valley.<br />
With a throw of 55.7 metres, the<br />
competition was won by 20-yearold<br />
Tipape Lek<strong>at</strong>oo from Mbirikani<br />
Many<strong>at</strong>ta village.<br />
“The prize money won’t pay for<br />
my tourism management educ<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />
but I am gr<strong>at</strong>eful th<strong>at</strong> (efforts to raise<br />
awareness) of neg<strong>at</strong>ive vices within<br />
the community are bearing fruit,” said<br />
Lek<strong>at</strong>oo. For Maasai boys on the cusp<br />
of manhood, killing lions was a rite of<br />
passage th<strong>at</strong> turned them into warriors.<br />
Launched in 2012, the event is held<br />
to encourage communities to stop the<br />
killing, as hunting has brought lions to<br />
the brink of extinction in this territory<br />
<strong>at</strong> the foot of Kilimanjaro. — Reuters<br />
Robbers grab 70kg of gold in dram<strong>at</strong>ic French van heist<br />
years. In March 2015, a group of around<br />
15 robbers held up two vans carrying<br />
jewellery worth around nine million euros<br />
($9.5 million) <strong>at</strong> a toll booth on the A6,<br />
near the central city of Auxerre.<br />
More recently, two women were held<br />
in their chauffeur-driven Bentley after<br />
leaving Le Bourget airport north of Paris<br />
in November. The masked robbers made<br />
off with valuables worth more than<br />
five million euros in jewels and other<br />
valuables. — AFP
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