Just in: Pro-Jonathan rally turns violent in Kaduna, several injured

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A pro-Jonathan political rally, disguised as a Unity and Peace rally, has ended abruptly on a tragic note in Kaduna, with an unspecified number of participants reportedly injured, with some dripping with blood.

At least two people were stabbed and rushed to hospital while several others suffered minor injuries after participants began to use dangerous weapons on one another, witnesses said.

The rally, reportedly bankrolled by a governor from the South-south geopolitical zone,  was organized under the auspices of the Northern Youth Forum, which has members in the 19 northern states.

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Several killed at rival rallies across Egypt

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Egyptian opposition supporters shout slogans during a demonstration against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo's landmark Liberation Square on June 29, 2013.


Several people, including one US citizen, have been killed in the ongoing violent clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi across Egypt.


The casualties come as both pro-and anti-Morsi demonstrators staged mass rallies across the North African country on Friday evening. 

Local security officials say the American was stabbed to death in Egypt's second city of Alexandria. 

The United States is warning its citizens against travels to Egypt and has also asked its non-emergency diplomatic staff to leave the volatile country. 

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3 soldiers, several gunmen killed in Daura attack – Army

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Kaduna – The Nigerian Army on Friday confirmed that three soldiers were killed in an attack by gunmen in Daura, Katsina State.

Maj.-Gen. Garba Wahab, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Nigerian Army, who disclosed this to newsmen in Kaduna, said several of the attackers were also killed.

He said that the army and other security personnel had cordoned off three areas in the city and were conducting a house-to-house search “to fish out some of the wounded gunmen who forced their way into peoples’ homes’’’.

He also said that the army was coordinating with security agencies in Niger Republic as “80 to 90 per cent of these gun men are not Nigerians’’.

3 dead, several injured after ship crashes into control tower in Italian port of Genoa

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At least three people have died and several are missing after a ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, reports say.

Part of the tower was said to have crashed into the water when it was hit by the Jolly Nero container ship.

About 10 people were in the tower at the time of the accident, and some of them are feared to be in the water.

Four people have been taken to hospital, says the Corriere Della Sera newspaper.

The Jolly Nero is almost 240 metres (787 feet) long and weighs over 40,500 tonnes.

It was bound for Messina, Sicily, at the time of the crash, reports say.

The accident is said to have occurred at about 23:00 on Tuesday night (21:00 GMT), when a shift change was taking place in the control tower - meaning more people were inside.

Genoa's prosecutor is investigating the incident, Corriere Della Sera says. The ship has been impounded and the captain is being questioned.

Ọmọ Oódua News From Nigeria, BBC