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Six people including a 12-year-old boy were found dead at a house in Chicago on Thursday in the deadliest single act of violence to hit the city in more than 13 years.
Six children and two adults were fatally shot by a man who was once in a relationship with the children’s mother at a Texas home on Saturday.Deputies responded to a request for a welfare check at a home in Houston, Texas at about 9 p.m. on Saturday. Deputies were informed that a man wanted on a warrant for assaulting a one of the residents was inside the house, and officers were instructed to wait for a High Risk Operations Unit to investigate, Harris County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Tim Cannon said in a press conference.
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin arrives at the hotel where six people believed to be Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans were found dead. Police denied initial reports that the six had been killed in a shooting, saying the investigation was currently focused on a "link with a toxic substance." IMAGES
Kenyan police say they have arrested a suspect after the gruesome discovery of mutilated bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump, and say he has confessed to killing 42 women. SOUNDBITE
The White House will demand more information from Israel after "deeply concerning" reports of bodies found strewn at Gaza's largest hospital complex as Israeli forces pulled out after an intensive military operation there. "It is deeply concerning if it's true. We are reaching out to the Israeli government to get more information," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters in Washington. SOUNDBITE
Mexican soldiers and police guard the scene where at least five bodies and several charred skeletal remains, including five skulls, have been found on a highway in the industrial state of Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico. IMAGES