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Authorities are searching for a man who opened fire on Monday at a grocery store in Washington
state, killing one person and injuring another.
Photo : Internet
ozens killed as
fighting rages
around Yemen city
DUBAI : Dozens of Yemeni
pro-government fighters
have been killed in a new
offensive to take a rebel-held
city, loyalist sources said on
Tuesday, following a surge
in violence including missile
attacks on the United Arab
Emirates.
Thirty-two soldiers have
died and at least 100 have
been wounded in three days
of fighting to drive the Iranbacked
rebels from Haradh,
north of the capital Sanaa
and near the Saudi border,
the sources said.
Yemen has been
embroiled in a civil war
between the governmentsupported
by a Saudi-led
military coalition-and the
Iran-backed Huthis, who
control much of the north,
since 2014.
The latest clashes come
after the Huthi rebels, after
suffering territorial defeats
to UAE-trained troops,
killed three oil workers in a
series of drone and missile
attacks on Abu Dhabi.
Fighting was still raging
around Haradh on Tuesday,
the pro-government sources
said, adding that the
loyalists have besieged the
area but are yet to seize the
city.
One loyalist source said at
least 56 rebels were killed in
the fighting and
accompanying coalition air
strikes. The Huthis rarely
Police: 1 dead in Washington
state grocery store shooting
RICHLAND : Authorities are searching for a
man who opened fire Monday at a grocery
store in Washington state, killing one person
and injuring another.
The suspect in the shooting at a Fred
Meyer store in Richland is Aaron
Christopher Kelley, 39, police said late
Monday. The suspect fled the store after the
shooting, though it was not known he left by
foot or in a vehicle, Richland police
Commander Chris Lee said. The suspect has
had contact with law enforcement in the
past, police said.
Dispatchers received a call reporting
yelling and possible gunshots in the store at
11:03 a.m. The first officers responding
arrived just one minute later, police said.
Richland interim Police Chief Brigit Clary
said responding officers found the two
victims in close proximity to one another in
the store and said although life-saving
measures were tried, one had already died.
The other, a store employee, was taken to a
hospital, she said. He had undergone surgery
and was listed in critical condition, police
said Monday afternoon. Both were described
as white males. Their names haven't been
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released. "What happened in our city today
was a senseless and tragic act," Clary said.
The suspect and the victim who died had
an interaction before the shooting, according
to store video footage seen by police. Police
said they don't know what the apparent
conversation entailed and don't know if the
two people knew each other. The person who
died was not a store employee, according to
police.
Screenshots from store surveillance
footage showed the suspect was wearing a
plaid shirt with a dark-colored down vest, a
black gaiter or scarf pulled over his nose,
light-colored pants and athletic shoes, the
Tri-City Herald reported.
Employees and customers were escorted
out of the store to a parking lot while officers
went aisle by aisle searching for the shooter
or other victims. No other victims were
found, nor was the shooter, police said.
"We feel very confident that we will locate
the suspect sooner than later," the police
chief said Monday afternoon, adding that
multiple law enforcement agencies were
helping the police department search and
investigate.
US approves support
deal with Taiwan for
Patriot missiles
WASHINGTON : The Biden
administration has
approved a $100 million
support contract with
Taiwan aimed at boosting
the island's missile defense
systems as it faces
increasing pressure from
China.
The State Department
announced the engineering
and maintenance
agreement on Monday as
China plays host to the 2022
Winter Olympics, an event
filled with nationalist fervor
that some fear could
escalate after the Games
into an attempt to take
Taiwan by force.
Beijing regards Taiwan as
a renegade province, has
not ruled out the use of force
to unify the island with the
mainland and has in recent
months escalated fighter jet
flights over Taiwanese
airspace.
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