Train kills man, child while crossing bridge

Train kills man, childwhile crossing bridge
RIDGEFIELD, Wash. -- A freight train struck a man and four children as they crossed a private railroad bridge often used by residents to walk between two small towns, killing the man and a 12-year-old child.
The group, on a Memorial Day outing to the beach, apparently ignored the "No Trespassing" signs Monday on the bridge over the Lewis River between Woodland and Ridgefield.
Arin Kight, 30, and Ashley Falk, 12, were killed. Kight's two children, 12-year-old Heaven Campbell and 7-year-old Matt Thompson, were injured, as was 6-year-old Wayne Frye, the son of Kight's fiancee. The three children survived by hugging the bolts on the sides of the bridge, but Ashley fell into the river. It was unclear whether she died from the impact of the train or drowned.
Area residents -- especially children -- have grown accustomed to running across the trestle. In the last five years, at least two others have been killed by trains on the bridge, residents said.
Dozens dead in uprising
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Police entering a prison after a three-day rebellion found the bodies of at least 34 inmates, some of them mutilated, police said today.
Authorities were still securing the Benfica detention center and feared they could find more bodies, said Raphael Martins, a Rio police spokesman. At least 14 of the 900 inmates escaped and three were recaptured.
The revolt started Saturday and ended Monday night after police gave in to a demand by inmates to separate prisoners belonging to different gangs.
Rio state legislator Geraldo Moreira said he counted 28 bodies.
"I saw severed heads. I saw body parts thrown on the ground and in the garbage," Moreira told the Jovem Pan radio station.
The Rio prison uprising began when detainees attempting to escape broke through the main gate of the detention center. When police intervened, prisoners attacked officers, grabbed their guns and took 26 guards and staffers hostage. Rebellions and jailbreaks are common in Brazilian prisons, which are often criticized by human rights groups for overcrowding and abuses.
Funeral turns violent
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Police exchanged fire with rioting mourners today as thousands gathered for the funerals of 20 killed in an apparent suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite Muslim mosque, the latest terrorist attack in Pakistan's largest city.
About 200 angry Shiites set fire to three buses, a bank, bus company offices and shops housed in one building a few doors down from the mosque hit in Monday's bombing. Hundreds of police fired tear gas at the crowd along a major highway in the southern city.
Fearing sectarian clashes between rival Shiite and Sunni Muslims, thousands of police and paramilitary rangers were on maximum alert.
Arrest in cold case
DULUTH, Minn. -- A man was arrested Monday after police say he confessed shooting a 22-year-old woman who has been missing for nearly 24 years.
Donald L. Bloomer of Duluth told police he shot Julie Hill at a Duluth home in July 1980, Police Chief Roger Waller said. Bloomer, 57, had been dating Hill at the time her mother reported her missing. Police reopened the investigation into her disappearance a week ago, focusing on a house Bloomer owned.
Bloomer, an independent contractor and newspaper delivery man, will be charged with second-degree murder, Waller said. Police have declined to say what prompted them to revisit the case.
India-Pakistan talks
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan and India have agreed to hold talks between the top bureaucrats at their foreign ministries on June 27 and 28, as key part of a peace process to tackle five decades of enmity, an official said today.
"[India] proposed these dates today and we accepted them," a senior Pakistani Foreign Ministry official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Teens charged in slaying
MAX MEADOWS, Va. -- Authorities allege two girls, ages 14 and 15, stabbed the younger teen's mother to death and buried her in a shallow grave behind the family's southwestern Virginia home.
Authorities found the body of Baughne Roxanne Thomas, 42, on Monday, and charged her daughter and the older girl with first-degree murder. The Wythe County sheriff's office did not identify the girls because of their ages.
Deputies said the 14-year-old girl's stepfather, Bobby Thomas, and his stepson returned home Sunday night after a family visit to Texas and found the house ransacked. Thomas and her daughter were missing.
County sheriff's deputies found the teen and her friend at a home in Fort Chiswell, where authorities also recovered a hunting knife, Baughne Thomas' pocketbook and jewelry.
Associated Press