A Palestinian has rammed his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians in Jerusalem, according to the BBC. He injured six policewomen, police say.
It happened on the seam of East and West Jerusalem, on the same junction as a previous attack last year.
Police say the driver tried to stab people before he was shot and seriously wounded by a security guard.
A 14-year-old Louisiana boy is being hailed as a hero for stopping an out-of-control school bus filled with high school students after a classmate knocked the driver unconscious, according to the Daily Mail.
The 15-year-old suspect has been charged with assault for attacking the 26-year-old driver in Baton Rouge Thursday as she was dropping off about a half-dozen students from Christa McAuliffe Superintendent’s Academy. The academy is an alternative school for teens with disciplinary problems.
Police and school officials say the female driver had stopped the bus at around 3pm at Linden Street to exchange words with the disruptive student.
According to the driver, when she turned away to face the road, the 15-year-old walked up behind her and punched the woman several times in the head until she passed out.
She then lost consciousness, her hands and feet slipped from the wheel and the brakes, and the bus started moving again.
That is when Tay’veon Slaughter, 14, jumped into action.
The quick-thinking eighth-grader slammed his foot on the breaks to stop the bus from crashing and called 911.
‘I knew I had to stop the bus because, you know, she’s not responding,’ he told the station WAFB, referring to the driver. ‘The bus was speeding up. So I knew if we get into a wreck, all of us would have been hurt.’
The 15-year-old suspect in the attack fled the bus before police responded to the scene. Later that day, the teenager’s mother turned him in to police. The suspect was arrested on charges of battery of a bus operator, aggravated obstruction of a roadway and second-degree battery.
School officials say the 15-year-old has been suspended pending a disciplinary hearing and could face expulsion.
When the driver of the bus woke up, she did know she had been attacked and that her face was swollen.
The injured driver was taken to a hospital to be treated for her injures. She has since been released to continue her recovery at home.
Slaughter said that before the attack on the driver, the 15-year-old was throwing things out the widow and spitting at passing cars. The boy reportedly became upset when the driver asked him to stop and sit down.
When the 26-year-old woman regained consciousness, Slaughter said she did not know she had been punched.
‘She didn’t know that her face was swollen,’ the boy recalled to the New Orleans Advocate.
Averil Sanders, principal of Christa McAuliffe Superintendent’s Academy, said he was proud of Tay’veon for stepping up to the plate in an emergency situation.
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A university student is warning others against using unregistered taxis in England after she fell victim to a predatory cab driver who sexually assaulted her.
Lily Wright, 22, from Birmingham has waived her right to anonymity to share her terrifying experience and to urge others not to take unlicensed cabs.
Lily and her friend Jamielee Smalldon, 21, had flagged down a taxi, driven by Mohammed Iqbal – a father of three – following a night out in Birmingham.
He then drove her home – after he ordered her to pay him £50 for the return fare. “It was disgusting and I was convinced he was going to kill me.” “After what he’d just done to me, I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to charge me,” she said, according to the Birmingham Mail.
Iqbal first pleaded not guilty to two separate sex attacks – one on Lily, and another on a second woman at another time. He later changed his plea to guilty.
“The next day police revealed the court had presented the evidence, and my attacker had changed his plea to guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count of kidnap,” said Wright.
“I believe women should trust taxi drivers, and take a taxi rather than walking home alone at night,” says Wright. “But they should book a registered taxi rather than waving one down in the street,” she said. “You’re putting your safety in their hands. And I learnt my lesson the hard way.”
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a man was arrested Wednesday evening in St. Louis after he drove through the crowd and later waved a gun at protesters.
A protest leader said four protesters were hit. A police spokeswoman said nobody was seriously hurt.
According to the Post-Dispatch, protesters then chased and surrounded the minivan, and the driver waved a black handgun at them. At one point, protesters broke out the van’s back window. The van was dented, and police recovered a rock from the back seat. Police took the driver, a 57-year-old man, into custody.
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