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The names of US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers appeared on a hit list kept by a man accused of fatally shooting a retired Wisconsin judge, authorities and US media said today, Reuters reported.

"Yesterday our office was notified by law enforcement officials that Governor Whitmer's name appeared on the Wisconsin gunman's list," a spokesman for Whitmer told Reuters. 

"While the news reports are deeply troubling, we will not comment further on an ongoing criminal investigation," he added.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice said retired judge John Roemer, 68, was found dead on Friday in his home after the local sheriff's office received a call about "an armed person and two shots fired in a Township of New Lisbon residence."

The department called the ex-judge's killing a "targeted" attack. It said that Douglas Uhde, 56, was found in the basement of Roemer's home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The suspect was taken to the hospital and a firearm was recovered at the scene.

On Saturday (local), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said the accused gunman had a hit list including the name of McConnell while an ABC News affiliate reported it also included Evers, according to Reuters.

The incident marked the latest high-profile case of gun violence in the United States, following mass shootings in recent weeks at a grocery story in New York, an elementary school in Texas and a medical building in Oklahoma that left dozens dead.

Gun safety advocates are pushing the US government to take stronger measures to curb gun violence.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice said Uhde remained in critical condition at a medical facility.

"This ... does appear to be a targeted act and the individual who is a suspect appears to have had other targets as well," Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said at a Friday news conference. "It appears to be related to the judicial system,"

In April, a federal jury acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 and deadlocked on the same charges for two other men, Reuters reported.

Nigerian police say a man who had a row with a Muslim cleric died in the capital, Abuja, after being set ablaze by a mob supporting the cleric, BBC reported

The 30-year-old man, Ahmad Usman, was in a local vigilante group and police say about 200 people were mobilised against him.

There are no details yet about the row.

Last month, a Christian female student was beaten to death and set on fire by Muslim students who accused her of blasphemy in the city of Sokoto.

The Abuja victim was described by police as "a member of the local vigilante around Tipper garage at Federal Housing Estate in Lugbe Area".

Police found him at the scene with severe burns and took him to hospital, but he died of his injuries.

BBC Abuja reporter Chris Ewokor says there appears to be a rise in mob violence in Nigeria. 

Two weeks ago, at least five people were killed in violent clashes between commercial motorbike operators and traders in a suburb of Abuja. 

A few days earlier, mob violence led to the death of a 38-year-old sound engineer in the country's commercial hub, Lagos, according to BBC.

Human rights campaigners say the frequent cases of mob violence are fuelled by deep-rooted impunity and a lack of confidence in the criminal justice system.

At least five people were killed and scores injured in an explosion at a depot in a south-eastern town in Bangladesh, officials say, BBC reported.

The explosion happened after firefighters were called to put out a fire at a container storage facility in the town of Sitakunda.

Twenty of the injured are in critical condition with burns covering 60% to 90% of their bodies, a doctor at a hospital treating the injured told AFP.

The cause of the fire remains unknown.

Some of the containers at the depot are believed to have stored chemicals, local media report.

The blast reportedly shattered the windows of several buildings nearby and was felt from areas as far as 4km (2.4 miles) away, according to local news outlet Prothomalo.

The town is only 40km (25 miles) from the country's second-largest city, Chittagong, and one of the city's hospitals has been inundated with victims. The injured include depot workers as well as fire-fighters and police, according to local media, according to BBC.

Several hours after the blast, fire-fighters were still attempting to extinguish the fire on Sunday morning.

About 600 people worked at the depot, the facility's director, Mujibur Rahman, told AFP.

Fires are common in Bangladesh. Last year, at least 39 people were killed after a ferry caught fire in the south of the country. And earlier that same year, at least 52 people died in a factory fire in Rupganj near the capital, Dhaka.

Three workers were also killed in 2020 after an oil tank exploded in another container storage depot in Patenga, not far from Chittagong, BBC reported.

Are the gunmen involved in Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder hiding in Nepal? Investigation into the deadly shooting has led a team of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell to the neighbouring country, sources said, India Today reported.

Based on specific intelligence inputs, the police team reached Nepal on Friday to nab the assailants believed to have fled to the Himalayan nation after the attack on Moose Wala at Jawaharke village in Punjab’s Mansa district on Sunday.

The development comes hours after news emerged that the Punjab Police detained two men in connection with Moose Wala’s murder. The two suspects were apprehended in Bhirdana village in Fatehabad for allegedly providing the Bolero car which was used in the shootout.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Punjab Police made their first arrest in the case, two days after the singer-politician was shot dead in his own jeep. Police said accused Manpreet Singh supplied vehicles to the assailants who were involved in the killing of Moose Wala. Singh was produced before a court the same day, and sent to a five-day police custody, according to India Today.

With Moose Wala’s murder suspected to be the fallout of an inter-gang rivalry, Delhi Police's Special Cell got three-day custody of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. During questioning, he admitted that his gang members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, hatched a conspiracy to kill the Punjabi singer.

In a Facebook post, Goldy Brar had claimed responsibility for Moose Wala’s murder. He said he had killed Moose Wala to avenge the death of gangster Vicky Middukhera.

Gangster Kala Jathedi and his aide Kala Rana, who were in police custody in a different case, were also questioned in connection with the Moose Wala’s murder.

Unidentified gunmen had ambushed Moose Wala in Jawarharke village in Mansa and opened fire at the Thar he was travelling in, mere days after the singer-politician's security cover was revoked by the Punjab government.

Moose Wala had sustained 19 bullet wounds in the attack and died within 15 minutes of being shot, his autopsy report stated. He was cremated at his native Moosa village in Mansa on Tuesday, India Today reported.