“When we arrived at the scene we saw nine dead bodies, including two children, and another two passed away on their way to the hospital,” said a state prosecutor.
A man attacked Rushdie and an interviewer onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, police said. He was flown to a hospital with punctures to his neck and abdomen.
In a statement Thursday evening, the Mexico attorney general’s office said it had requested a judicial hearing in Coahuila to charge the mine’s alleged owner for “illicit exploitation” of a state asset.
The dead included a family who were trapped underground in their "banjiha" home, leading to a national outcry and calls for government action on glaring social inequalities.
Almost half of Europe is experiencing a historic drought, threatening new ecological and economic pain for a continent already grappling with the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani had survived previous attacks, including one in Pakistan in 2020 that killed at least seven people and was claimed by the Islamic State terrorist group.