Nissan recalls nearly 4M cars with glitches

Nissan recalls nearly 4M cars with glitches

NEW YORK

Nearly 4 million Nissan cars are being recalled due to major safety problems where passenger air bags or seat belts could fail in a crash, leading to serious injuries or fatalities.

The two recalls are just the latest in a string of safety problems to hit automakers in the past year with Acura, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Lexus, Mazda, Toyota and other manufactures having to recall cars over air bag problems. The Nissan problems are unrelated to the other air-bag issues.

1 teen killed, 1 hurt on carnival ride

EL PASO, TEXAS

One teenage girl was killed and another was injured when they were ejected from a whirling ride at an El Paso church carnival.

The girls were at a parking-lot carnival marking the annual Dia de los Ninos holiday at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church when they were hurled from a spinning ride called “Sizzler” just before 7 p.m. Friday. A 16-year-old girl hit a metal barricade and died a short time later at Del Sol Medical Center. A 15-year-old girl was taken to University Medical Center with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.

No identities have been released, and police Sgt. Enrique Carrillo says a cause hasn’t been determined.

Woman is struck, killed by duck boat

BOSTON

A 29-year-old woman was killed and her passenger was injured after the scooter she was driving was struck by an amphibious sightseeing vehicle in downtown Boston on Saturday.

The crash happened around 11:30 a.m. near public park Boston Common when the vessel, known as a duck boat, collided with the scooter.

The woman and her male passenger were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the woman died from her injuries, according to Boston police Officer Rachel McGuire. The passenger suffered nonlife-threatening injuries, McGuire added.

There were about 30 passengers on the duck boat when the crash happened, McGuire said. There were no other injuries.

33 rescued lions arrive in S. Africa

JOHANNESBURG

The roars of lions filled the cargo section of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday evening as 33 lions rescued from South American circuses landed in South Africa where they will be released into a sanctuary for big cats.

It was the largest airlift of lions in history, said Jan Creamer, president of Animal Defenders International, which carried out the operation.

“These lion have suffered tremendously,” Creamer said as the lions were loaded in crates onto trucks. “They lived in small cages on the backs of trucks for their entire lives. Some of them had their teeth bashed in with steel pipes in circuses in Colombia and Peru. Some of them had their claws removed. ... It is a wonderful feeling to bring them back to their home.”

Nine of the lions were surrendered by a circus in Colombia. The remaining 24 were rescued in raids on circuses in Peru by the animal-defense group and officials enforcing a crackdown on wildlife trafficking.

Officials: No permit for collapsed building

NAIROBI, Kenya

A building that collapsed amid heavy rains in Nairobi, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 134, did not have an occupancy permit, officials said Saturday as they ordered its owner to turn himself in.

Details about the residential building emerged a day after its collapse Friday, after which onlookers gathered to try to help pry victims from the rubble.

The Kenya Red Cross said 150 building units and adjacent homes were affected.

Associated Press