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After neighbors complained about the noise he was making, a Texas man went next door with an AR-15-style rifle and shot them, killing five people – including an eight-year-old child – as well as wounding three others at a home in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday night, The Guardian reported. Law enforcement patrolling the community more than 40 miles outside of Houston were searching for Francisco Oropeza, 38, who had been intoxicated and fled the scene, the sheriff of San Jacinto county, Greg Capers, told reporters on Saturday. Oropeza is facing five charges of murder, Capers told the Washington Post. By Saturday afternoon, as police continued to search for his whereabouts, Capers reportedly told local media that authorities believed they had cornered Oropeza in a wooded area. Family members had walked to his fence and asked Oropeza to cease shooting rounds in his yard because an infant was trying to sleep. Oropeza responded by saying that it was his property. Capers told reporters that video footage showed Oropeza walking up to the neighbors’ front door with the rifle. The killing, less than a year after the deadliest mass shooting at a Texas public school left 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde, marked the 174th mass shooting and 17th mass killing in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are killed or wounded. It defines a mass killing as one in which four or more victims are slain, according to The Guardian. That puts the United States at a record pace of mass killings this year. Currently, mass killings happen once every six and a half days, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and USA Today. Capers told reporters that the killings in Cleveland unfolded about 11.30pm local time. “Everyone that was shot was shot from the neck up, almost execution-style,” Capers said. Of the 10 people in the house, four people were found dead at the scene. A fifth – the youngest victim at 8 years old – died later at the hospital. All of victims were from Honduras. Oropeza is from Mexico. Honduras’s foreign minister, Eduardo Enrique Reina, wrote in Spanish on Twitter that Oropeza should face the “full weight of the law” for the killings. The Spanish language newspaper Tu Nota first reportedReina’s tweet. Capers noted that two women who were killed “were laying over these children were doing it in such an effort as to protect the child”. Those children survived, The Guardian reported. “It’s horrific,” Capers told the Washington Post. “No one should ever have to look at this scene, the blood, the trauma that went on in that house.”

Two persons died and another sustained injuries when a car met with an accident at Pipalbhangyang in Kamalamai Municipality-2 of Sindhuli on Sunday. The identities of the deceased are yet to be established. DSP Chiranjivi Dahal said that the injured has been taken to the Sindhuli Hospital for treatment. He said that the tragedy occurred when the car (Ba 8 Cha 5135) fell some 20 meters down the road this morning. Further investigation into the incident is underway, police said.  

Nepal reported 103 new Covid-19 cases on Friday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 627 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 50 returned positive. Likewise, 1, 298 people underwent antigen tests, of which 53 tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours and 53 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 375 active cases in the country.

Twenty-three houses were completely damaged by an earthquake at Bichchhya in Himali Rural Municipality-2 of Bajura district on Friday. An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale with its epicenter at Dahakot, Gaumul Rural Municipality struck the district at 1.30 am. Chief Administrative Officer of Himali Rural Municipality Raj Bahadur Bhandari said that 23 houses were damaged by the tremor in Bichchhya. The houses of Dhanjit Budha, Dantir Budha, Joblal Budha, Naule Budha, Dil Bahadur Budha and Saurmal Rokaya were completely damaged. Similarly, the houses of Basu Rokaya, Surendra Budha, Duwalal Budha, Dev Bahadur Budha, Pancha Rokaya, Surendra Budha, Jaggi Bohara, Saimal Bohara, Surja Bohara, Jas Thapa, Bhayadhan Thapa, Purna Thapa, Kusum Khadka, Bachmal Rokaya, Kala Rokaya, Surja Khadka and Gellal Khadka were also completely damaged by the quake. Chief District Officer Pushkar Khadka said that the district administration is collecting the information on the damage caused by the earthquake in coordination with the Chief Administrative Officer and the rural municipality ward chairperson.