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Three people, including a man and his grandson, have been shot dead at a Jewish community site and a retirement home in Kansas City in the US Midwest. The shootings occurred at the Jewish Community Campus at Overland Park and a nearby assisted living centre, Village Shalom, local media said. Police said a suspect, a bearded white man in his 70s, was in custody. A local hospital said it was treating a teenage boy for a gunshot wound and that he was in a critical condition. Two victims were named by relatives as Dr William Lewis Corporan and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood. They were killed in the car park of the Jewish Community Campus. They were both Christian. A third, female victim was shot dead at Village Shalom, a retirement home several streets away from the community centre. President Barack Obama called the shootings “heartbreaking” and pledged the full support of the federal government. Local TV stations broadcast footage of police arresting a suspect at the sc

Scores of people were killed and maimed as an early morning bomb explosion rocked a motor park in Nyanya area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday. Nyanya is a satellite town bordering the FCT and Nasarawa State. The explosion reportedly occurred in a section of the park allocated to luxury buses popularly called “El-Rufa’i buses.” Worst hit was the area where vehicles plying Abuja- Ilorin-Kabba were parked. Workers on their way to their workplaces were most affected. An eyewitness, who survived with a deep cut in his right leg, told our correspondent that the explosion occurred while he was calling passengers into his car. He claimed that human flesh littered his car and others around it. A combined team of security agencies and fire fighters are currently retrieving bodies and putting out fire at the scene. The incident had led to disruption of movement into Abuja from that area with many workers, who were on their ways to work, stranded. The loud sound and thick smoke t