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Jan
25
2024
By NELLIE PEYTON
Man to be charged with murder for deadly Johannesburg fire

Man to be charged with murder for deadly Johannesburg fire

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SOUTH African police have arrested a man suspected of starting the fire that killed more than 70 people in a hijacked building in downtown Johannesburg in August. The 29-year-old man confessed to an inquiry tasked with determining responsibility for the blaze that he was involved in starting it, the police said in a statement sent to Reuters. He is expected to appear before a Johannesburg court soon on charges of arson, 77 counts of murder and 120 counts of attempted murder, the statement said. One of the worst disasters in living memory in South Africa's economic hub, the blaze broke out on August 31…
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Jan
19
2024
By DICKSY OBIERO
Kenyan cult leader to face murder charges in starvation deaths

Kenyan cult leader to face murder charges in starvation deaths

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A Kenyan judge ordered cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies have been exhumed since last April from the Shakahola forest. Authorities say Mackenzie, the head of the Good News International Church, ordered his followers in southeastern Kenya to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended. More than 400 bodies were uncovered over months of exhumations across tens of thousands of acres of forest, making this one of the world's worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Prosecutors…
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Feb
04
2021
By The African Mirror
3 teens charged for murder of 5 Senegalese immigrants

3 teens charged for murder of 5 Senegalese immigrants

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KEITH COFFMAN TWO of three teenage boys will be tried as adults for charges of murder and arson in a Denver house fire that killed five Senegalese immigrants, including two young children, prosecutors revealed yesterday. Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour, both 16, are charged with five dozen counts of murder, arson, conspiracy, attempted murder and related offenses stemming from the deadly blaze on Aug. 5, 2020, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a written statement. The third suspect, a 15-year-old boy whose name has been kept under seal because he is a minor, is charged in juvenile court with…
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