Indonesia
2 arrested in officer’s death
Indonesian police arrested an Australian woman and a British man on Friday in connection with the killing of a police officer in the tourist resort of Bali. Sarah Connor and David Taylor were arrested as they were seeking protection at the Australian Consulate in Denpasar, Bali’s capital, two days after the killing of the traffic police officer, 2nd Assoc. Lt. Wayan Sudarsa. Bali Police Chief Maj. Gen. Sugeng Priyanto said statements from nine witnesses led to the arrests. Sudarsa’s body was found early Wednesday on the beach outside the Pullman Hotel in Kuta, while Connor’s handbag was discovered nearby. Priyanto said he interrogated Connor and she stated that she had been at that location with Taylor but had been drunk. She also said her handbag was missing.
FRANCE
Truck attack victim dies
The Bastille Day truck attack in the Riviera city of Nice claimed an 86th victim. The secretary of state charged with aid to victims, Juliette Meadel, said in a tweet on Friday that a man injured in the July 14 attack has died. The married man with children, whose name was not released, was the second of those hospitalized to die since the attack by a Tunisian living in France who drove a truck into a crowd of revelers on France’s national day.
NIGERIA
Jailbreak leads to deaths
Prison workers say at least 10 inmates and a prison officer have been shot and killed in an attempted jailbreak in southeastern Nigeria, though police say they only shot into the air. Newspapers reported that one prisoner disarmed a guard, killed him and wounded two others in Thursday’s riot at Abakaliki Prison in Ebonyi state. A warden and a cook said they saw between 10 and 14 inmates killed.
Russia
25 years since failed coup
Several dozen Russians gathered on Friday for a protest reunion to mark the 25th anniversary of a coup attempt which heralded the demise of the Soviet Union. Several dozen, mostly elderly or middle-aged people, mingled outside the Russian White House, some of them carrying Russian flags and photographs of the 1991 protests. On Aug. 19, 1991, eight hard-line Communist leaders seized power from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, declaring him ill, but he was actually under arrest. Thousands took to the streets to protest.
Compiled from wire reports