News in Brief

Three injured in new US school shooting
Afp, Los Angeles

Three teenagers were shot and injured Friday outside a high school in the northwestern US state of Oregon, in a suspected gang-related incident. Investigators launched a manhunt and caught the attacker yesterday. The three victims -- two males and one female -- were transported from the scene at Rosemary Anderson High School in north Portland, it said on its Twitter feed.

Yemen troops kill Saudi-bound Qaeda suspects
Afp, Sanaa

Yemeni troops yesterday shot dead five al-Qaeda suspects disguised as women who fired at a soldier during a checkpoint inspection of their Saudi-bound bus, officials said. Another suspect was wounded along with the driver in the shooting in Harad, a town 15 kilometres from the Saudi border, the officials said, adding two of those killed were Saudis.

Huge storm hits US West Coast, 2 dead
Afp, Los Angeles

The US West Coast's most ferocious storm in years triggered rockslides, power outages and hurricane force winds on Friday in southern California, a day after claiming two lives in the Northwest. At least 450,000 customers have been hit by power outages since the storm hit Wednesday in California, Washington state and Oregon, although by Friday morning, power had been mostly restored.

Pak cops foil terror attack, kill 4 militants
Afp, Multan

Pakistan police foiled a major terror attack yesterday in central Punjab province killing at least four suspected Taliban militants. Heavy weapons and explosives -- including four suicide jackets, 12 rockets, 40 hand grenades, 328 kilogrammes  of gun-powder -- were recovered from the militants.