Twister hits Miss.; several injured

Twister hits Miss.; several injured

hattiesburg, miss.

A tornado tore through Hattiesburg on Sunday as part of a wave of severe storms that downed trees, damaged buildings and injured more than a dozen people.

The twister traveled down one of Hattiesburg’s main streets and mangled homes, commercial buildings and structures on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi.

Emergency officials said at least 10 people were injured in surrounding Forrest County and three were hurt to the west in Marion County, but they weren’t aware of any deaths.

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said it appears that a single tornado caused the damage.

Flynn said the sheer scope of the damage was slowing the assessment of damage.

The university released a statement saying no one was hurt but that it was under a state of emergency, and said anyone away from campus should stay away until further notice.

31 die in stampede at festival in India

allahbad, india

A stampede killed at least 31 people and injured several in an Indian train station flooded with people at a Hindu festival that attracts millions.

Indian Railway Minister Pawan Bansal said the stampede happened in the Allahabad train station on Sunday. News reports said thousands of people were in the station when a section of a footbridge there collapsed, leading to the stampede.

Chopper crash kills 3

los angeles

Three people were killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show.

Los Angeles County Fire dispatcher Robert Diaz said the crash occurred about 3:40 a.m. Sunday at the Polsa Rosa Ranch in Action.

Diaz said everyone on board died. The three people aboard the helicopter have not been identified.

Hospital releases 3 shooting victims

new orleans

Gunshots erupted in a crowd of bead-wearing, drink-carrying late-night revelers on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, wounding four people and sending bystanders running and screaming. Hours later on Sunday, though, the same stretch was packed with partiers.

In a video taken by a witness Saturday night and released Sunday, the shootings are preceded by footage of people standing shoulder to shoulder in New Orleans’ famed tourist district. Police said in an email that the video depicts an argument involving one of the shooting victims and the suspects.

The shootings wounded two men and two women, three of whom were treated and released Sunday.

Attackers kill 3 N. Korean doctors

potiskum, nigeria

Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under assault by a radical Islamic sect, officials said Sunday.

The deaths Saturday night of the doctors in Potiskum, a town in Yobe state long under attack by the sect known as Boko Haram, comes after gunmen killed at least nine women administering polio vaccines in Kano, the major city of Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.

Associated Press