News in brief
14 missing in deadly Ukraine fire: president
AFP, Kiev
Fourteen people remain missing from a fire that claimed a students life in Ukraines southern port city of Odessa, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday. The fire broke out in a college building in central Odessa on Wednesday, killing a 16-year-old female student and injuring 27 others. The blaze had been contained by Thursday morning, but dozens of firefighters were still combing through the partly destroyed walls of the six-storey building.
Afghan woman killed in Greek migrant camp fire
AFP, Athens
A 27-year-old Afghan woman burned to death when the container in which she lived in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos caught fire, police said yesterday.
The fire that killed the mother of three broke out around 2.00 am local time (00:00 GMT) at the Karatepe camp, near the islands main port of Mytilene, police said.
shooting at Pearl Harbor base leaves multiple injured
AFP, Los Angeles
At least three people were injured, two of them critically, when a gunman opened fire at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before taking his own life, local news reports said Wednesday.
A spokesman for the US base would only say that security forces had responded to reports of a shooting at around 2:30 pm local time and that the base was on lockdown for several hours.
