A parcel bomb exploded and injured three women at Britain’s driver and vehicle licensing agency Wednesday, the strongest indication yet that a spate of letter bombs may be motivated by an extreme case of road rage. It was the third attack in as many days on offices that have some connection to motorists. Police disclosed there had been four additional attacks over the past three weeks.
Spanish police recover art pieces
Authorities have arrested 52 people in a major crackdown on a suspected ring of antiquities looters from dozens of sites in southern Spain, the Spanish Civil Guard said Wednesday. Some 300,000 pieces have been recovered, including gold coins, vessels, amphoras and other objects, he added. He said investigators consider the operation to be the largest raid against archaeological looting worldwide.
Rare vultures found in Cambodia
Researchers in the remote forests of Cambodia said Wednesday that they have discovered the only known colony in Southeast Asia of slender-billed vultures and scores of other endangered birds. The colony was discovered last month in the jungles in Cambodia’s Stung Treng Province. The area was also found to be home to several other species listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union.
Somalia cholera outbreak deadly
A cholera outbreak in Somalia has killed more than 115 people and hospitalized 724 in towns where people were forced to use contaminated water from a flooded river, doctors said Wednesday. The river flooded earlier this year, leaving tens of thousands homeless in a country with little ability to respond because it lacks an effective government. Infants have been especially affected, said a doctor.
WEIRD SCIENCE
Prehistoric couple died cuddling? Just a week before Valentine’s Day, archaeologists say they have found the skeletons of a prehistoric pair–believed to be a man and a woman who died locked in an embrace. Even the location of the find was romantic, as it was about 25 miles south of the city of Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” “Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging,” archaeologist Elena Menotti said.
