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Half a German city evacuated after two-ton 'Blockbuster' RAF bomb is found at the bottom of the Rhine
45,000 people to be evacuated after WW2 bomb found in river
Seven old people's homes, two hospitals and one jail also being cleared
Biggest evacuation in German postwar history
By Allan Hall
Almost half the German city of Koblenz is under evacuation orders as experts prepare to defuse a two-ton ‘Blockbuster’ RAF bomb in the Rhine.
The 10ft bomb, one of the biggest in the wartime arsenal of Bomber Command, was discovered after 65 years when the river level dropped during the driest November on record.
The fuse is badly corroded, and the authorities are evacuating 45,000 of Koblenz’s 120,000 population to leave a security zone of a mile around the bomb - which is capable of destroying an entire city block.
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Construction of a 350-sandbag dam was almost completed by this evening so that the detonation can take place
Evacuation: Bomb experts build a temporary dam around the undetonated explosive as authorities prepare to get people out of Koblenz
The evacuation - the biggest in German postwar history - will involve fleets of buses and 1,000 volunteers helping police and firemen.
It is due to take place on Sunday so as not to disrupt Saturday Christmas shopping.
Some 700 patients at two hospitals will have to be moved, as well as the residents of seven old people’s homes and prisoners in a local jail.
The city’s main train station will also have to be emptied as well as several hotels.
Authorities this week built a temporary dam of some 350 sandbags around the bomb which is covered by just 16 inches of water.
The plan is then for bomb disposal teams to pump the water out and get to the bomb proper to begin the delicate job of removing the detonator.
It is expected to take several hours to make the bomb safe. Should it show signs of going off, experts
The low level of the Rhine has already exposed four other unexploded bombs.
Police closed a road and a stretch of railway near Rhein bei Vallendar near Koblenz on Saturday so that three smoke bombs found in the river could be blown up.
An artificial traffic jam was created on a nearby autobahn to slow traffic while the explosion work was underway.
Preparations: Divers have been working on a sandbag barrier in Koblenz which will expose and dry the 1.8 ton WW2 bomb
Deadly: 'Blockbuster' bombs were used heavily by the RAF in the war, with 50 per cent of their weight being explosives
Fire department boss Manfred Morschhäuser told the German news agency DAPD said the area will be pumped free of water at the weekend so the bomb can be detonated.
THE RAF'S HEAVY WARTIME WEAPON
'Blockbuster' bombs, also known as cookies, got their name from the press during the Second World War through their ability to destroy entire blocks.
They typically weighed either 4,000, 8000 or 12,000lbs and usually contained 50 per cent explosive by weight.
Their primary was use was in causing extensive damage to buildings so that smaller 1.8kg incendiary bombs could reach their interiors.
In 1943, 25,000 blockbusters were used. This increased to 38,000 the following year, before returning to 25,000 in 1945.
A safe height for unleashing the 4,000lb blockbuster was said to be around 5,000ft - any lower and the aircraft risked being caught in the blast.
During the Blitz the Germans created improvised blockbuster by attaching naval mines dropped on parachutes.
In the meantime, the fire department has established a telephone hotline.
Morschhäuser said: 'Several hundred callers are getting in touch each day with their questions and problems.
'Each household included in the evacuation will be notified via flier.
'And on Sunday we'll go ringing from house to house.'
A day later and just a few kilometres downriver in Neuwie a 500-kilo aerial bomb was spotted in the river. This required the evacuation of around 1,000 people living in the nearby area.
Koblenz was a German operations centre during the Second World War and was hit repeatedly by air raids carried out by RAF and U.S. bombers.
While it had heavy industry producing ball bearings and tank parts, it was also the home of Army Group B which oversaw the conquest of France.
Later in the war the city was the hub for defensive operations for German forces following D-Day. Eighty-seven per cent of Koblenz was eventually destroyed in more than two dozen air raids.
German newspaper The National reports 'an estimated 2,000 tonnes of American and British aerial bombs and other munitions are still found every year.'
Safety first: A huge dam will allow bomb squads to reach the explosive, which has an eroded fuse
Exposed: The WW2 bomb was discovered due to low water levels in Koblenz during the driest November in record
Koblenz in western Germany, population 120,000, was a hub for defence operations for German forces following D-Day
Husband shoots entire family, killing four children, after his wife returns from an abused women's shelter before turning the gun on himself
Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women's shelter.
She saw it as the beginning of a new life: one without her husband and the father of her four children, as she told co-workers. She wasn't going back to him this time, she said, and left for home.
Less than an hour later, her 24-year-old husband, Jose Avila, launched a brutal final assault, shooting his wife three times before he began shooting the children.
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Remembrance: Laura Gonzalez barely survived after her husband went on a shooting rampage at their home Thursday, killing their children before turning the gun on himself
Avila's final act was to kill himself.
Two of the children died at a hospital Thursday, a day after their two siblings were killed in the shooting that rattled the small southeast Texas town of Bay City.
Their mother is hospitalized in critical condition.
As details trickled out, a picture emerged Thursday of a family long struggling with violence, including an assault reported by Gonzalez just before Thanksgiving.
After that, she went to a battered women's shelter.
'I asked her how she was doing because I knew she was at the crisis center. She said she was trying to make something of her freedom and a better life for herself and her children,' said Alejandro Gonzalez, a fellow waiter at La Casona, the Mexican restaurant where Gonzalez worked.
'She wanted to make a better life for his kids because they see all the violence,' he added, recounting the conversation he had with Gonzalez hours before Avila turned on her.
Escape: The mother of four was shot twice inside their trailer before fleeing outside where she was shot a third time by her angry husband
Although Gonzalez left the trailer home she shared with her husband after reporting the assault, Bay City Lt. Andrew Lewis said she refused to press charges.
'She was scared. She didn't have papers, he didn't have papers, and they were both scared they were going to get deported,' according to their neighbor Juan Elizondo to WFMY.
Lt Lewis said he didn't know how long she stayed at the shelter for.
Wednesday's violence unfolded on a quiet street in Bay City — a town about 65 miles southwest of Houston — just as two nearby schools were letting out.
The couple started arguing inside the trailer, and Avila shot his wife twice, Lewis said.
She ran out to the front yard, where Avila shot her a third time. Then, he turned on the children.
'We heard ... that he was walking around waving a gun,' Lewis said, describing the violent scene that unfolded on a lawn now decorated with a makeshift memorial of teddy bears, candles and prayer books.
Home: The Texas couple are said to have been residing without legal documentation, stopping the mother from pressing earlier charges against her husband for fear of deportation
At least one student witnessed the incident.
Two of the brothers, aged 3 and 5, died of their wounds at a Houston hospital Wednesday.
Their 2-year-old sister and 4-year-old brother had been on life support but died Thursday. Gonzalez was in critical condition Thursday night at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Police have not officially released the names of the victims, but co-workers and neighbors identified Avila's wife as Laura Gonzalez.
The family had moved into the trailer home near Bay City's Western-style downtown about a year ago, neighbors said.
They appeared to live a quiet life. On occasion, next-door neighbor Isuro Perez heard them arguing, but it appeared to be nothing out-of-the-ordinary. Just a run-of-the-mill dispute between a married couple.
'He always plays soccer out here in this field out here, plays soccer with his kids,' Perez said, pointing to a grassy area opposite the row of trailer homes. 'They were nice people, nothing went wrong really. They were a happy family.'
Confidant: Ms Gonzalez confided in coworkers at the restaurant she worked in about her second escape from their home to a women's shelter after fighting with her husband
At work, though, Gonzalez portrayed a different picture.
Alejandro Gonzalez said he once saw her with a black eye.
And Ruby Gomez, a waitress at La Casona, said Laura Gonzalez had told her about problems she had with her husband.
'She had to leave to get the kids in the afternoon because he threatened her that if she left him he was going to kill the four kids and her,' Gomez said.
Once, Gomez said, Gonzalez told her Avila had locked her in the house and gone to work.
She escaped through a window and went to a shelter, Gomez recounted.
That was the second time she left him, and vowed not to go back.
The first time 'he convinced her that he was going to change and that he really loved his kids, and convinced her to return to live with him,' Gomez said.
Still, the tragic outcome of the relationship came as a shock to Gonzalez's co-workers and to other residents of Bay City — a town of just over 17,000 people surrounded by large ranches and farmland.
The shooting was the talk of the town Thursday, as residents drove slowly past the couple's home.
Some stopped to add something to the growing memorial. Others cried. Several prayed.
'It's going to be sad for the momma when she wakes up and finds out she lost her children,' said Gloria Carranza, a 41-year-old Bay City native who added pink and blue balloons to the memorial.
'Things like this don't happen in a small town like Bay City,' she said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069229/Husband-shoots-entire-family-killing-children-wife-returns-abused-womens-shelter-turning-gun-himself.html#ixzz1fTt43uHr
'I had to settle a beef': Terrified passengers flee as gunman opens fire on crowded New York bus and kills two
- Police: Killer shot 18-year-old man in apartment before jumping aboard bus and killing another
- One other victim in stable condition
A gunman slayed a man in an apartment before jumping aboard a crowded city bus and opening fire and fatally wounding another.
Police in Queens, New York have arrested the 20-year-old suspected shooter, who told them: 'I had to settle a beef.'
Witnesses described the scene as 'pandemonium', as one injured man fell from the bus and scores of terrified passengers fled.
Frightening: A gunman in Queens, New York shot a teenager dead in an apartment before jumping aboard a bus and shooting two others - one fatally
The man shot his first victim in the neck in a second-story apartment in Jamaica, Queens.
The wounded 18-year-old then jumped from a window and fell to the ground below, police said.
He managed to stumble to the nearby Royal Chicken restaurant, where workers called emergency services – but he died before reaching hospital.
The shooter had fled the scene, running to a nearby bus stop and jumping on a northbound Q111 bus around 4 p.m.
Officers responding to the 911 call went to the apartment and found an ID the gunman had accidentally dropped, police said.
On the bus, the gunman began arguing with passengers and pulled out a 9mm Luger semi-automatic pistol.
He began firing and hit two men. One died on the bus.
The other, a 29-year-old man shot in the face, managed to escape while terrified fellow passengers fled.
Search: The police have cordoned off the road while investigations continue
Crime scene: Police search for bullet casings in a nearby sewer drain.The gunman began arguing with bus passengers before opening fire and killing one
He later was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was in stable condition, authorities said.
'The male gets on the bus and shoots two people,' Detective Martin Speechley said. 'We now have the shooter under arrest.'
Witnesses described the terrifying scenes as around 50 passengers fled the bus.
‘It was crazy. I saw people running from the bus,’ Shakeem Twitty, who was playing drums on sidewalk when he heard shots, told the New York Post.
Kevin Livingston, a manager at a nearby bank, added: ‘I saw cops running, so I came out and I saw a young man with a red coat lying on the ground.
'He was conscious, couldn’t have been more than 20. There were cops and people running everywhere.
Blocked: The crime scene stretched for blocks in Queens, New York. The 20-year-old shooter has been arrested and is being questioned, police said
‘I’m sick of it. I’m tired of seeing young black men dead of on the side of the road.’
Another witness told the New York Post: ‘It was pandemonium. I heard a shot and people started running over this way.’
Police caught the shooter and found the pistol on him.
When they asked him for a motive, the man allegedly said: ‘I had to settle a beef.'
The gunman is being questioned.
Ali Nasrey, a 27-year-old worker at Royal Chicken, said co-workers told him that the gunman was a stepfather ‘who shot his kid’.
Ray Lewis, retired Captain from the Philadelphia Police department, was arrested at Occupy Wall Street on November 17. He was arrested along with other demonstrators by NYPD during a protest. During the eleven hours he was detained he says secretly many members of NYPD support the Occupy movement. Marina Portnaya reports.
GERMAN POLICE USE WATER CANNONS ON ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTERS
Demonstrators in Germany continued attempts to disrupt a controversial nuclear waste delivery on Friday by blocking rail tracks with a non violent, sit down protest.
Police officers removed peaceful protesters from tracks near Hassloch, approximately 100 kilometres from where the train crossed into Germany from France, in preparation for the train's approach.
In the early hours of Saturday, clashes continued as German police used a water cannon to spray anti nuclear protesters near a camp in Metzingen, close to the shipment's final destination.
Protesters claimed that the waste transports could endanger the environment and population if there were to be an accident en route.
Demonstrators in Germany continued attempts to disrupt a controversial nuclear waste delivery on Friday by blocking rail tracks with a non violent, sit down protest.
Police officers removed peaceful protesters from tracks near Hassloch, approximately 100 kilometres from where the train crossed into Germany from France, in preparation for the train's approach.
In the early hours of Saturday, clashes continued as German police used a water cannon to spray anti nuclear protesters near a camp in Metzingen, close to the shipment's final destination.
Protesters claimed that the waste transports could endanger the environment and population if there were to be an accident en route.
Bush, Blair Found Guilty of War Crimes by Tribunal
A War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war, Press TV reports.
The five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
In 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction allegedly stockpiled by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Malaysian tribunal judges ruled that the decision to wage war against Iraq by the two former heads of government was a flagrant abuse of law and an act of aggression that led to large-scale massacres of the Iraqi people.
Bombings and other forms of violence became commonplace in Iraq shortly after the US-led invasion of the country.
In their ruling, the tribunal judges also stated that the US, under the leadership of Bush, fabricated documents to make it appear that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
However, the world later learned that the former Iraqi regime did not possess WMDs and that the US and British leaders knew this all along.
Over one million Iraqis were killed during the invasion, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.
The judges also said the court findings should be provided to signatories to the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, and added that the names of Bush and Blair should be listed on a war crimes register.
A War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of war crimes for their roles in the Iraq war, Press TV reports.
The five-panel Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against humanity by leading the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.
In 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding weapons of mass destruction allegedly stockpiled by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Malaysian tribunal judges ruled that the decision to wage war against Iraq by the two former heads of government was a flagrant abuse of law and an act of aggression that led to large-scale massacres of the Iraqi people.
Bombings and other forms of violence became commonplace in Iraq shortly after the US-led invasion of the country.
In their ruling, the tribunal judges also stated that the US, under the leadership of Bush, fabricated documents to make it appear that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
However, the world later learned that the former Iraqi regime did not possess WMDs and that the US and British leaders knew this all along.
Over one million Iraqis were killed during the invasion, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.
The judges also said the court findings should be provided to signatories to the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court, and added that the names of Bush and Blair should be listed on a war crimes register.
An Egyptian-American filmmaker arrested amid ongoing protests in Cairo has been released, her lawyer said Friday, but three American college students accused of violence were still behind bars. There were no immediate details about the release of documentarian Jehane Noujaim, which was confirmed by her lawyer, Ragia Omran.
Film producer Karim Amer said Wednesday that Noujaim -- whose works include "The Control Room," about Al-Jazeera and the United States during the early days of the Iraq War -- was arrested while filming close to the Interior Ministry building in Cairo.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, David Lynfield, said Thursday that U.S. diplomats were in touch with Egyptian authorities about her case.
The three college students -- Derrik Sweeney, Gregory Porter and Luke Gates -- were ordered released Thursday, said Adel Saeed, the spokesman of the general prosecutor, but late in the day, they remained in police custody. Read More
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