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'Adulterers' stoned, shot
The Age ^ | 17 March 2007
Posted on 03/16/2007 11:55:00 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Pro-Taliban activists in a Pakistani tribal area stoned and then shot dead two men and a woman for alleged adultery, officials and witnesses say.
About 800 tribesmen watched the executions by the pro-Taliban Lashkar-i-Islam (Army of Islam) group this week in the Bara region of the Khyber tribal district on the Afghan border, they said.
The trio was tied up with ropes, and tribal elders and other men gathered at a patch of open ground and stoned them.
Two masked members of the hardline group then shot them with Kalashnikov rifles, witnesses said.
"The Lashkar-i-Islam men caught them and after investigations it was proved that they were guilty of adultery," a group member said.
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CA: Investigators search for cause of trestle fire (Sacramento)
Sac Bee ^ | 3/16/07 | Tony Bizjak, Ryan Lillis and Ramon Coronado
Posted on 03/16/2007 8:46:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Fire investigators are labeling the massive fire that destroyed a train bridge Thursday night as "suspicious" and are asking for the public's help in determining whether it was arson.
An arson tip line has been set up and Fire Capt. Jim Doucette said the blaze "moved very, very fast," leading investigators to suspect it may have been set.
"Until we rule it out I would call it suspicious," Doucette said about noon Friday.
Investigators say it is unlikely that a grass fire sparked the blaze because the vegetation in the area is not dry enough for that.
The fire that erupted on Union Pacific tracks over the American River near Cal Expo was still smoldering at some points Friday morning, but firefighters expect to extinguish in the afternoon, fire officials report Friday morning.
The fast-moving fire, first reported at 5:41 p.m., quickly consumed the heavy-duty trestle timber and tracks just north of the river and west of the Capital City Freeway.
James Barnes, UP spokesman, said the last passenger train to travel over the bridge was 15 minutes before the fire was reported. The last freight train to cross the trestle was 45 minutes. Neither train reported anything out of the ordinary, which could explain how the fire started, Barnes said.
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