YEMEN
Airstrike hits hospital; 11 die
An airstrike hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in northern Yemen on Monday, the international humanitarian group said, killing at least 11 people and wounding at least 19 others. The group, known by the French acronym MSF, said the strike hit the hospital near the Houthi rebel stronghold of Saada, where teams were still attending to the wounded. The airstrike on Abs Hospital, in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, occurred around 3:45 p.m. Monday, MSF said in a news release. The aid group said nine people, including an MSF staff member, were killed immediately. Two more patients died while being transferred to another hospital.
NEPAL
Dozens killed in bus accident
A bus filled with people traveling to their home villages in Nepal to receive the first government payments for victims of last year’s devastating earthquake slipped off a narrow mountain road Monday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others. The bus was heading to Kartike Deurali village, among the worst hit by the quake, which killed nearly 9,000 people in the country. The road — little more than a trail — was only wide enough for one vehicle to pass at a time and was slippery because of continuous rain. A Home Ministry official said 33 people were killed, but victims and relatives said many more may have died because the wreckage was scattered along the slope below the road.
AUSTRIA
9 Iraqi men arrested in rape
Austrian authorities arrested nine Iraqi men on suspicion of rape for an attack on a German tourist in Vienna on New Year’s Day, police said Monday. The men range in age from 21 to 47 and are all either asylum-seekers or recently were granted asylum, Vienna police spokesman Paul Eidenberger said. They are alleged to have taken the woman from Vienna’s downtown Schwedenplatz and then assaulted her in an apartment where two of the suspects lived. Police say the men have denied the accusations.
MEXICO
Armed men abduct diners
Armed men abducted 10 to 12 presumed members of a crime gang who appeared to be celebrating at an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday. Jalisco state prosecutor Eduardo Almaguer said preliminary results of the investigation indicated that all involved — kidnappers and kidnapped — were members of criminal organizations.
Compiled from wire reports