LONDON – Britain’s army will be deployed at oil, gas and electricity facilities in the country to defend them from potential terrorist attacks, a newspaper reported Sunday. The News of the World cited an unnamed security source as confirming security will be increased around the facilities after intelligence suggested terrorists may target the country’s infrastructure. The newspaper said the measure would mark the first time soldiers had been called in to guard such facilities. Britain’s Home Office said it was reviewing security around key infrastructure facilities.
Spain: Bomb victim’s body found
Workers on Saturday recovered the body of an Ecuadorean teenager killed a week earlier in a massive blast at Madrid’s international airport that was blamed on violent Basque separatist group ETA, police said. Diego Armando Estacio’s body had been detected Friday using high-tech fiber-optic viewing equipment but recovery efforts were hampered by hundreds of tons of rubble, police said. Estacio, 19, had gone to the airport with his girlfriend to pick up a friend’s mother who was arriving by plane.
Philippines: Troops kill terrorists
Philippine troops Saturday killed six members of the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group, including one wanted by the United States for involvement in the kidnapping of Americans, a military spokesman said. Philippine navy and army special forces troops backed by marines clashed with a group of rebels in waters off Panglima Sugala, southern Tawi-Tawi province Saturday, killing all six gunmen on a boat, the spokesman said.
Bangladesh: 40 die in bus crash
At least 40 passengers died after a speeding bus veered off the road and caught fire in eastern Bangladesh on Saturday, a police official said. The accident occurred about 55 miles east of Dhaka as the bus tried to overtake another small bus, an area police chief said. In addition to those killed, many people were burned and injured, he said. Local television reported 50 to 70 people were inside the bus when the accident occurred.
El Salvador: 20 inmates die in riots
Riots erupted in a maximum-security prison, leaving at least 20 inmates dead, officials said Saturday. The first wave of rioting was sparked late Friday at the prison in Apanteos, 40 miles west of San Salvador, when a jailed gang member got into an argument with a guard as inmates were going into their cells to go to sleep, authorities said. Police said Saturday officials regained control of the prison and found 17 inmates dead and several injured. But a second outbreak of fighting later Saturday claimed three more lives, officials said.
France: No pork soup for the poor
A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don’t eat pork because of their faith. The judge said late Friday that such giveaways by the far-right group Solidarity of the French threaten public order. His ruling approved a decision by Paris police to refuse permits to the group on the grounds that such handouts could spark angry reactions. France is home to more than 5 million Muslims and some 600,000 Jews.
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