World Briefs

CHINA An overnight sleeper bus in northern China fell off an expressway into a ditch after a tire burst, killing 26 people, officials said. The government in the port city of Tianjin said Saturday that the bus with sleeping berths and carrying 30 people plunged off the road Friday night.

USA Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as one of the world’s foremost witnesses and humanitarians, has died at age 87.

BANGLADESH  The hostage crisis at a restaurant in Daka that left 28 dead, including 20 hostages and six militants, has focused attention on the radical Islamist attacks occurring in the moderate, mostly Muslim country in the past few years.

FRANCE Police say a few dozen people were slightly injured in the Paris Euro 2016 fan zone when a fight among British fans prompted a rush for safety. It was the first such incident in the Paris fan zone since the tournament started June 10, and comes amid tensions and high security across the country. France is under a state of emergency after extremist attacks last year, and hooligan violence that marred the early days of the tournament.

AUSTRIA Lewis Hamilton won the Austrian Grand Prix yesterday after colliding with Nico Rosberg on the final lap, an incident he blamed on his German teammate. The two Mercedes drivers touched as Hamilton sought to overtake and Formula One championship leader Rosberg ended up losing his front wing, which caused him to drop back to fourth.

SERBIA Five people were killed and at least twenty injured when a man opened fire in a cafe in the northern town of Zrenjanin, police said. The attack took place at 1:40 a.m. local time, when a 38 year-old man entered the premises and fired at his wife and other cafe guests. The police arrested the gunman and are still investigating the motive.

EL SALVADOR After becoming the world’s murder capital last year and posting an equally bloody start to 2016, this violence-torn Central American nation has seen its monthly homicide rate fall by about half. The government attributes the drop to a tough military counteroffensive against the country’s powerful gang.