■UNITED STATES
Police deny abductor seen
Boston police dismissed several witness reports on Friday that a high-society man who allegedly abducted his seven-year-old daughter was spotted in the Caribbean the day before. Employees at an auto store and at a convenience store said they recognized Clark Rockefeller and his daughter, Reigh Boss, from photos as the people they helped the day before, Turks and Caicos Sergeant Calvin Chase said on Friday. But the sightings were investigated and found not to be credible, Boston Police spokesman Eddy Chrispin said. “It definitely was not him,” Chrispin said.
■COLOMBIA
Miners killed in blast
A methane gas explosion killed eight miners and wounded two on Friday in an illegally operated coal mine in the central part of the country, authorities said. The explosion happened in a mine in Cundinamarca Province that the government shut down in 2004, said Plinio Bustamante, director of Mining Services at the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining. “The mine generated two explosions that resulted in eight miners being killed,” Bustamante said. It was the worst accident of its kind this year in the Andean country, where thousands of impoverished people work in improvised mines subject to landslides, gas explosions and other hazards.
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