Number of deaths of victims of NATO to the Kabul airport shooting rises to 9 - Xinhua

(Kabul, April 27, Xinhua) - dead of-led NATO International Assistance Security Force (ISAF) in the shootout at Kabul airport on Wednesday reached nine, a statement of the published military alliance said here.

"Eight soldiers of the International Assistance Force to the security and civilian of the ISAF die after a shooting here today," confirmed the statement.

However, he did not identify the nationalities of the victims, saying that it is the policy of the ISAF to postpone casualty identification procedures to the competent national authorities.

In the previous statement, the alliance has developed the number of victims has suffered in the incident which happened in the Afghan Air Corps just six soldiers from 11: 00 local time.

Earlier, the Afghan Defence Ministry confirmed in a statement this shooting between an Afghan driver and his colleagues abroad to Afghan Air Corps which located in the western part of Kabul airport left a number of dead and wounded.

Afghan Ministry of defence in the statement also noted that more details would be published after the end of the investigation.

Meanwhile, Taliban militants, fight against Afghan troops and NATO-led by Afghanistan claimed responsibility, saying the incident by a Loyalist Taliban nine foreigners and five Afghan soldiers were killed.

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Arrests in the school shooting Brazil

The authorities say than Wellington Oliveira, 23, killed 12 students at a school in Rio de Janeiro Thursday before killing himself.NEW: demonstration Sunday calls for the control of fire greaterNEWweapons: Gunman application note of suicide for the House to turn animal shelterTwo men who sold a weapon used in the shooting were students arrestedTwelve were killed in the shooting

(CNN) - two men were arrested in the Brazil for the sale would have a weapon for the gunman who opened fire at a school in Rio de Janeiro last week, killing 12 students before turning the gun on himself.

The homicides division of the Rio police service made the announcement Saturday, the news agency Agencia Brasil reported State.

The motivations behind why Wellington Oliveira, 23, shot himself and students remain unclear.

Locksmith Charleston Souza de Lucena is responsible for helping the de Oliveira to acquire a firearm. After he has done work for Oliveira, according to the police, de Oliveira asked where he could find a weapon to fire. Souza de Lucena presented him Isaias de Souza, who helped obtain the weapon of calibre.32 used in the mass of fire, said police handguns.

The origins of a second gun used in the shooting, a revolver.38, are still unknown, said police.

The two men told police that they have never sold Oliveria of the weapon to fire had they known how it would have used it, Agencia Brasil reported.

Ten children is remained injured to the hospital, said the Secretary of State health and civil defence. Those who were killed were buried Friday in heavy agitation.

During this time, no one came to identify and claim bodies of Oliveira, Agencia Brasil reported. If no one claims the body within 15 days, he will be buried as an indigent.

Mass school Thursday, shooting, which is rare in the Brazil, has excited the country border lobby. Twelve red flags were raised Sunday during a demonstration at the beach of Copacabana calling for greater efficiency against weapons and ammunition of traffic.

"Where the ammunition comes from." Where are the upcoming guns? Are we safe? Organizer of the event Antonio Carlos Costa said, according to Agencia Brasil.

The Director of the school where the shooting took place, said Sunday that he hoped to reopen the school April 18. Cleaning of the scene is scheduled to begin Monday, said Luis Marduk.

Also Sunday, the minutes of the validated TV one note of suicide allegedly from Oliveria, who included funeral instructions. Note also asked that his house, which has been under police surveillance after that vandals defaced it, turn into an animal shelter "because animals are currently very despised and need much more protection and care that humans human.".Journalist Luciani Gomes and Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report. CNN

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Dutch town in shock after the shooting rampage - Reuters

A note saying "we will never you forget forever in our hearts" accompanies the flowers brought to the shopping centre where a lone gunman killed six people in Alphen aan de Rijn on April 10, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Michael KoorenBy Ivana Sekularac

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands. Sun, April 10, 2011 1: 48 a.m. EDT

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (Reuters) - deadly rampage of a shooter with a shopping centre has been met Sunday disbelief by residents of a quiet Dutch city which once considered such carnage could not happen in their country.

Dressed in camouflage trousers and a jacket, Tristan van der Vlis opened fire with an automatic weapon in a parking lot Saturday and walked quietly in the commercial centre of Ridderhof, where he continued shooting.

The death of six people, including a woman of 91 and an old man of 80 years and 17 wounded, including two children aged six years and 10 years.

The Member of the club 24-year-old gun and then shot and killed himself.

"It's something that usually see you in America, not to the Netherlands," said local resident Martin van der Ploeg has fixed his motorcycle near the commercial centre.

The town of Alphen aan den Rijn, 46 km (29 miles) South of Amsterdam, lies between the towns of the University of Leiden and Utrecht and is close to the famous area of the Netherlands for the growth of tulips and other bulbs.

"The Dutch consider themselves as on Earth." "We have this kind of excess," said Van der Ploeg.

"It was my house, my sanctuary, where I need to feel safe and now that ' s gone."

The shooting was the deadly attack in the Netherlands since a national Dutch drove his car into a crowd in 2009, killing seven people and himself in an attempt apparent to knock the Queen Apeldoorn, 90 km (55 miles) to Amsterdam.

NO MOBILE

The gunman left a farewell letter, found by his mother, in which he talks mostly about suicidal feelings. He lived in a building of some 200 metres (yards) in the nine-storey shopping centre.

"He was very polite and very nice," said one of the neighbours of Van der Vlis, a woman who refused to be identified.

"I was very surprised to hear that it was he who shot." I have children and they were often in the elevator with him, and now when I think about it, it's scary, "she said."

Crown Kitty Nooy said after interviewing members of the family Van der Vlis, investigators had still found no reason for the attack.

"This young man had psychological problems which was known by a number of people", she said.

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5 shoppers killed in Dutch Mall shooting

Low Eenhoom, Mayor of Alphen aan de Rijn, said the shooter fired an automatic rifle and committed suicide before the arrival of the police.Shooter himself killed before the arrival of the police, the Mayor saysFour of nine wounded are in critical condition

(CNN) - the Dutch officials say an armed man opened fire at a shopping centre, Saturday killing five people and injuring nine others before the bullet in the head, journalist to the CNN subsidiary SBS reported.

Low Eenhoom, Mayor of Alphen aan de Rijn, has told reporters that the shooter, whose identity is unknown, fired an automatic rifle and committed suicide prior to the arrival on the scene of the police.

The Mall was evacuated. Four of the wounded are in critical condition, said Eenhoom.

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Netherlands shooting: Gunman kills five in Dutch mall - BBC News

April 9, 2011, 14: 25 GMT update Dutch police sealed off the shopping centre of Alphen aan den Rijn after the shootings a shooter at the Netherlands has killed five people and injured 11 before taking his own lifeofficials say.

The murders took place at a shopping centre held in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn, about 25 km (15 miles) southwest of Amsterdam.

The Mayor of the city, said the man opened fire with an automatic weapon and then a bullet is fired.

The gunman has not been formally identified, and no explanation for the shooting has been reported.

Dutch media quoted witnesses who said the man had blond hair and is about 25 years. It has been described as to wear a leather jacket and camouflage pattern trousers.

Panic

Mayor Bas Eenhoorn called the incident "unprecedented" in the city of about 70,000 people.

He says four wounded were in critical condition and five serious injuries.

"A man with an automatic weapon, which we cannot reveal the identity has begun shooting and killed five people, then himself," said the Mayor.

"It is hardly credible that our town could know this slaughter and a day as beautiful as that,"he says."

A trader in the centre of Ridderhof, said that the gunman appeared to be shooting people at random.

"There was panic in the shopping centre, many people running," said the dealer, Maart Verbeek, our Dutch television chain.

"I see the attacker from walking and I'm going inside the store... and I see passes with a big gun."

A resident told the BBC that the shooting was unusual, although it was the second in the region this month.

"It is odd that something like this has happened in this district." Usually nothing ever happens here. But it is the second shooting in two weeks, "said Thomas Aantjes.

On 2 April, two people were killed in a shooting in the same district of the city. Officials did not link the two incidents.

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