■ UNITED STATES
Three sextuplets die
Half of the sextuplets born prematurely to a Minnesota couple have now died, while the others remain in critical condition, hospital officials said on Saturday. A third boy, Lincoln Sean Morrison, died Friday. Two of his brothers, Tryg and Bennet, died earlier last week. The four boys and two girls were born June 10 about four-and-a-half months early at a Minneapolis hospital. Doctors had advised the couple to selectively reduce the number of viable fetuses to two, but they declined.
■ GUATEMALA
Woman beaten to death
An angry crowd of thousands beat a woman to death and set another on fire on suspicion they had killed a young girl and stolen her organs to sell them, police said on Saturday. Nine-year-old Mishel Diaz disappeared from her home in Camotan, a town near the border with Honduras, last Thursday and her mutilated body was discovered a day later abandoned on a dirt track. An angry mob wielding rocks and sticks went house to house looking for three women they thought committed the murder. The furious horde beat 24-year-old Marciana Recinos to death in the town square.
■ colombia
FARC wants hostage swap
Three kidnapped US defense contractors and dozens of other hostages held by Colombian guerrillas must be swapped for all the guerrillas held in US and Colombian jails, a senior rebel said. Rodrigo Granda, the so called "foreign minister" of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), said the rebels will not consider piecemeal negotiations or prisoner swaps for the hostages, including the Americans and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. "If the gringos want an agreement, then they must send back those rebels in prison in the US," Granda said. "I understand the US government did similar swaps in return for captured Americans during the Cold War, so I don't see why they can't do it in this case."
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