The second Ebola victim treated in the United States has died.
Dr. Martin Salia died Monday morning while being treated at the Biocontainment Unit at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A hospital spokesman said that Dr. Salia died around 4 a.m. Monday.
Officials close to the case say that Dr. Salia was already critical when he arrived at the facility, including being in kidney and respiratory failure.
“Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren’t able to save him,” said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit. “We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia every possible opportunity for survival. As we have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential. In Dr. Salia’s case, his disease was already extremely advanced by the time he came here for treatment.”
Salia’s wife said she was thankful the U.S. State Department worked to bring her husband to Nebraska to help him fight for his life.
“We are so appreciative of the opportunity for my husband to be treated here and believe he was in the best place possible,” Isatu Salia said.
A homicide terrorist bomber has killed 48 students at a high school in Nigeria.
Local officials say that Boko Haram is behind the attack on the students.
“We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body,” said 17-year-old student Musa Ibrahim Yahaya to The Associated Press.
The death toll is at least 48 with 79 injured.
A wounded teacher told officials at a hospital that the terrorist had dressed as a student and walked into the assembly ground with the students.
Boko Haram, whose name means “western education is sinful”, has repeatedly attacked schools.
The captain of a South Korean ferry which capsized and killed more than 300 people, mostly students, will be spending at least the next three decades behind bars.
Captain Lee Joon-seok was convicted of gross negligence but was surprisingly acquitted of homicide connected to the deaths of the passengers.
The captain had fled the ship when it began sinking rather than staying behind to try and rescue the teenagers and passengers trapped below the water line.
Family members of the students who drowned were furious with the verdict and the sentencing, saying that the sentence was too lenient and that it was unconscionable that the captain was not found guilty of homicide in abandoning the passengers.
The ship’s engineer was convicted of homicide only on the part of two ship’s employees that he left behind when the fled the ship. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The senior pastor of Bahamas Faith Ministries International Fellowship is dead after a plane crash in the Bahamas.
Myles Munroe was killed along with his wife, daughter and six others when their plane struck a construction crane in a shipyard next to the airport and crashed into a junkyard. No one on the plane survived.
Munroe was leading a Global Leadership Forum that included world leaders such as ambassadors to the United Nations.
“He was indisputably one of the most globally recognizable religious figures our nation has ever produced,” Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie said of Munroe. “His fame as an ambassador for the Christian ministry preceded him wherever in the world he traveled, whether in the Caribbean, North America, Asia, Europe or Africa.”
The Associated Press says that severe weather had an impact on the crash.
A British woman has been revealed to have killed her disabled 12 year old daughter by stopping hydration and nutrition.
Nancy Fitzmaurice died in August after officials at London’s Great Ormand Street Hospital stopped her support. The child suffered from hydrocephalus, meningitis and septicemia at the time of her death.
Her mother had petitioned a judge to allow her to kill her child via a slow death from lack of hydration. The mother, Charlotte Fitzmaurice Wise, said that she felt her daughter had suffered enough.
The death in August was kept secret until the parents came forward to advocate for the parents of other special needs children to be able to kill their children without court approval.
Disability advocates around the world immediately condemned the family for their killing and said that approval of such actions sets a dangerous precedent.
“Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment,” the Autism Self Advocacy Network said in a statement.
Mexican authorities have admitted finding a mass grave in their search for 43 students who went missing last month after a clash with police.
Mexico’s attorney general told reporters the grave was discovered after information was obtained from two arrested gang members.
Police in the region had admitted to investigators that they had taken the students and turned them over to local drug gangs so the gangs could “take care of” the students for the police.
The incident has shocked Mexican residents to the point that 56 people have been arrested in the disappearance and local officials have been forced to resign. The governor of the state has also stepped down because of the mass corruption of the police department.
The mayor of Iguala, where the children were taken, is on the run along with his wife and the police chief. The mayor reportedly ordered the students to be intercepted so that his wife would not be interrupted during a speech.
The man who shot and killed a Canadian soldier in the capital yesterday before being shot and killed by RCMP and security personnel has been identified as 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
The attack was the second terrorist attack by ISIS sympathetic Islamic extremists this week.
“We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said following the shooting.
“In the days to come we will learn about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had,” Harper vowed. “[This will] lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts” in the fight against terror.
Officials say that Zehaf-Bibeau’s father was a businessman from Quebec who went to fight in Libya in 2011 and that the gunman also spent time in Libya.
After initial searches for more gunmen, the Canadian government now says they believe that Zahef-Bibeau acted alone.
A 3-month-old American baby is dead after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem.
Police officials say that an Arab man drove his vehicle into a crowd of people near a light rail stop around 6 p.m. local time. The stop was less than a 1,000 feet from the Israeli National Police Headquarters.
“The vehicle ran over a number of people, including several Americans, as they exited the train, and the suspect was shot when he attempted to flee the scene by foot,” an official told the Jerusalem Post.
“Nine people were injured, three seriously, including an American infant who died after sustaining critical injuries.”
The suspect is reportedly in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds.
The Arab man comes from a neighborhood where Arabs were angry that nine Jewish families had moved in two days ago.
The gunman behind a rampage in downtown Ottawa, Canada is dead along with a soldier shot during the gunman’s initial volley.
The soldier was a ceremonial sentry guarding the National War Memorial. Ottawa police confirmed the soldier died at the hospital from gunshot wounds.
The gunman, whose name is being withheld by police, died after engaging in a gun battle with Parliament Hill security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police inside the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. The battle took place outside the doors where the Conservative and NDP caucuses were meeting.
The gunman was just outside the door where Canada’s Prime Minster, Stephen Harper, was meeting with officials. Security was able to rush Harper out of a back entrance away from the shooter.
“A series of gunshots rang out and we realized they were right on the other side of the door. And it isn’t a very strong door. We put up these flimsy little tables to get people behind and get them under chairs. We wanted to make sure that everyone was safe,” Member of Parliament Charlie Angus told the Ottawa Citizen.
Witnesses inside Centre Block say between 30 and 50 shots were heard during the gun battle. Witnesses at the initial shooting site said that the gunman just jumped from a car with a rifle.
“I heard a bunch of pops and I looked over at the War Memorial and I saw a man with a rifle shooting at innocent people,” construction worker Matthew Blais said. “We ducked for cover. Then we saw him jump into a green car and head up the street. He parked right in front of Parliament and ran into the building.”
The attack comes days after an Islamic extremist committed a hit and run attack on Canadian soldiers.
Canada is scheduled to begin bombing runs against ISIS with the United States this week.
Police are on the hunt for several suspects after a series of shootings took place in three locations in Ottawa, including the Parliament building.
Witnesses reported a gunman shooting and killing a military guard posted at the National War Museum, then entering the adjacent Parliament building where multiple shots were heard around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. Shots were also reported at the Rideau Centre shopping center, located only a few blocks away from the Parliament building.
The attacks were reported hours after Canada raised its terror threat level due to the death of another soldier on Monday. The soldier was killed by a radical jihadist.
At this time there is no confirmation that any of this week’s attacks are linked to ISIS or any terrorist organization.
