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its forces.
•  Defense Minister A.K. Antony said some sailors were killed but gave no other details.
•  "It's a loss to all of us. It's a tragedy," Antony told reporters in New Delhi before leaving for Mumbai to assess the situation.
•  Local TV news station Headlines Today showed video of the explosion on the diesel-powered submarine, apparently filmed by a bystander. An enormous ball of red and yellow fire rose hundreds of feet into the air.
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•  ST. JOSEPH, La. (AP) -- A man who took hostages at a bank in rural Louisiana shot the two remaining hostages, killing one of them, before being shot and killed by police, authorities said.
•  During negotiations with law enforcement late Tuesday, the suspect -- identified as 20-year-old Fuaed (FOO-od) Abdo Ahmed -- said he was going to kill the hostages, Louisiana State Police superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said. State police then entered the building just before midnight Tuesday.
•  That's when Ahmed shot the two hostages and then state police shot and killed him, Edmonson said. Edmonson said the hostages were shot in the upper body. He did not have any other information on the condition of the second hostage who was shot.
•  The hostages were both shot with a handgun, but Edmonson said Ahmed was also armed with a rifle.
•  The gunman initially took two women and a man captive around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph. He later released one of the female hostages.
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•  SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a close family friend suspected of killing her mother and 8-year-old brother says he threatened to kill her if she tried to escape and got what he deserved when he died in a shootout with authorities in the Idaho wilderness.
•  Hannah Anderson went online barely 48 hours after her rescue Saturday and

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