World in brief: Gang burns bus in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Gang members opened fire on a bus on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital, then doused it with gasoline and set it on fire, killing at least 14 passengers in what the president on Monday called an act of terror.
Police managed to break windows and help 13 people escape the flames but others died inside. Sixteen people suffered injuries in the late Sunday attack, officials said.
“This is an act that seeks to generate terror among the population,” President Mauricio Funes said, adding that his security Cabinet was to meet to increase security in the country.
Moments later, gang members opened fire on another bus in the same neighborhood, killing two people.
National Police Commissioner Carlos Ascencio said Monday night that eight suspects had been arrested in the bus burning, including one who was detained minutes after the attack and smelled of gasoline. Among the detained were a woman and two minors.
Deadly rampage at Mazda plant
TOKYO – A disgruntled worker drove over people at a Mazda factory today, killing one and injuring 10, stunning Japan just two years after an auto worker went on a deadly rampage in central Tokyo.
Toshiaki Hikiji, 42, was arrested about an hour later on attempted murder charges after fleeing in his car from Mazda’s Ujina plant in Hiroshima prefecture, southwestern Japan, police said.
Japanese media reports said Hikiji was a contract worker who had been let go in April.
Searchers locate plane wreck
YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Recovery teams including French military personnel will hack a path through dense jungle to reach the site of a plane crash in the Republic of Congo that killed 11 people including the entire board of an Australian mining company, officials said.
An air search on Monday found the wreckage of the plane, which disappeared Saturday half an hour after it left Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, for Yangadou in Republic of Congo to visit an iron ore mining site, Cameroon’s government said.
It said 11 people were aboard, including six Australians, two Frenchmen, an American and two Britons.
No survivors were found by French troops who dropped by helicopter to the site on Monday.