■ Colombia
Second bombing victim dies
A 10-year-old boy who died of severe burns on Saturday became the second fatality of a fire bomb attack on two Bogota buses that is being blamed on Marxist rebels, hospital officials said. Thursday's bombings of the packed buses in a working-class district of the capital also killed an 11-year-old boy and injured more than 20 people, many of them children. The attack has outraged the country. On Friday schoolmates of the dead and wounded children marched in the rain through the Ingles neighborhood to protest the bombings, which police said were the work of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
■ United States
More tornadoes hit southeast
More tornadoes struck the southeastern US on Saturday but no fatalities were immediately reported, after the same storm front was blamed for at least 12 deaths a day earlier. The storms killed nine people late on Friday in one county in central Tennessee near Nashville, and caused three more deaths in another community in the same part of the state. The storms spawned more twisters and caused significant damage as they moved east on Saturday through Georgia. No new fatalities were reported by late Saturday. Cleanup began on Saturday in Tennessee, where the worst-hit communities were under nighttime curfews, with the state governor calling out National Guard troops.
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