2 US FIREFIGHTERS DEAD IN ‘ARSON’ TRAP
NEW YORK City: A convicted felon shot dead two firefighters and wounded two others on Monday after luring them to a blaze that police said that he had apparently set as a trap in a small town in New York State.

The shooter, who was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 17 years for his grandmother’s death in 1980, then fatally shot himself in the head, said police in Webster, a suburb of Rochester on the shores of Lake Ontario. His sister, who lived with him, was nowhere to be found, according to police. Investigators had not yet determined the gunman’s motive. AFP

INDIA PM CALLS FOR CALM AMID RAPE OUTRAGE
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday appealed for calm and vowed to protect women as police struggled to quell increasing outrage over sex crimes following the gang-rape of a student. With much of central Delhi sealed off after a wave of violent protests, Singh said that he understood the public’s anger at the “monstrous crime” but added that “violence will serve no purpose.” “There is genuine and justified anger and anguish at this ghastly incident,” Singh said in a televised address. AFP

Prosecutors, 6 others killed in drug attack
GUATEMALA CITY: A Guatemalan federal prosecutor and six other people were killed in an attack near the Mexican border blamed on drug traffickers, officials said on Monday. The attackers burned the bodies of their victims, inluding Chiquimula prosecutor Irma Olivares, a businessman and the director of a regional government social services agency, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez. The bodies of three bodyguards were found in another charred vehicle nearby. “The modus operandi of the attackers corresponds to drug trafficking groups” operating in the border region, he added. AFP