The prosecutors' office said the attack was carried out by unidentified assailants travelling in an SUV.

The Government Secondary Jangebe School in Zamfara state was the scene of the latest mass abduction of school children in northern Nigeria.

BJP worker Kripa Ranjan Chakma was shot dead by a group of gunmen at his residence on Saturday, police said

The victim refused to marry the accused after discovering that he was already married, police said

The accused is a drug addict and managed to flee the spot after committing the crime

The situation in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur remained tense on the fourth consecutive day on Sunday as a group of protesters torched a pickup van and vandalised property.

The Sunday shooting at a church service in the Fort Worth Suburb of White Settlement was the latest attack on a house of worship in the US.

Police have detained a suspect. However, it is yet to be ascertained if the suspect had any involvement with the shooting.

The attack happened in the city of Halle at about 12 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday.

The shooter eventually ditched his car, hijacked a US Postal Service vehicle and continued to open fire, traffic officials said. Two law enforcement officers were injured.

A man opened fire with an assault rifle at a Walmart in Texas on Saturday, killing 20 people, just four days after a disgruntled employee shot dead two coworkers and wounded a responding police officer at one of the massive chain's stores in Mississippi.

The deceased were identified as Chandrasekhar Sunkara, 44; Lavanya Sunkara, 41; and two boys, ages 15 and 10, reported CNN.

According to sources, the members of one group were returning to their homes after offering Eid prayers, when assailants from another group attacked them.

The woman identified as Nigeena Bano was killed by unidentified gunmen on Wednesday in Pulwama district.

Police confirmed the shooter, identified by NBC Charlotte as a 22-year-old history student at the campus, was in custody.

'Unidentified armed individuals have attacked the Protestant church in Silgadji, killing four members of the congregation and the main pastor,' a security source told AFP.

Pakistan is one of the three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where polio is still endemic.

In one instance, instead of removing the video, which shows the terrorist shooting and murdering innocent civilians from a first-person perspective, Facebook has simply marked the clip as potentially containing "violent or graphic content".

In the Buzi Top area, the gunmen stopped one bus, checked the identity cards of passengers, then offloaded at least 14 of the 16 and shot them.

The charges against Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, comes ahead of his second appearance at the High Court in Christchurch on Friday.