■MEXICO
Police find 11 bodies
Police found 11 bodies dumped around a southern state, including seven wrapped in plastic bags and thrown off a bridge. Guerrero state police said the bodies of five men and two women were found in a river between Acapulco and Cuernavaca. They were wrapped in bags and dumped off a bridge. The other four bodies were found in a 600m ravine in Pilcaya. The bodies were all found on Sunday. Investigators did not have any suspects or possible motive for the killings, but warring drug cartels often dump the bodies of rivals.
■CANADA
Kidnappers ‘kind’: victim
A woman freed last week after being kidnapped in Nigeria described her abductors on Sunday as “mostly kind at heart” and said she was well-treated during nearly two weeks of captivity. Looking none the worse for wear after 13 days as a hostage, Julie Ann Mulligan, 45, told reporters that her captors seemed motivated by a need to earn money to improve their desperate economic plight. “The kidnappers were mostly kind at heart,” she said. “The job ... was a business of money that there desperately isn’t enough of for most of the people in Nigeria,” Mulligan said. “They did not hurt me physically and they did not torment me unnecessarily or psychologically ... I did live the hard life of many typical Nigerians, though, for 13 days. And believe me, it’s not an easy one.” Mulligan was kidnapped on April 16 while participating in a cultural exchange in Kaduna.
■UNITED STATES
Gunmen kidnap toddler
A three-year-old boy has been kidnapped by two gunmen who broke into his family’s home in Southern California and tied up his mother and her five other children. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Cindy Beavers said the men burst into the San Bernardino home with handguns on Sunday and stole money and property, then left with three-year-old Briant Rodriguez. The mother told investigators she did not know the two gunmen.
■UNITED STATES
Father kills wife, sons
A father shot and killed his wife and two of his sons — one five months old and the other seven years old — before killing himself in the front yard of their Florida home on Sunday night, authorities said. Another son, a 13-year-old, was pursued through the garage by his father, evaded several gunshots, and made it safely to a neighbor’s house, Polk County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Scott Wilder said in a statement. Investigators believe Troy Ryan Bellar, 34, and his wife, Wendy Bellar, 31, were arguing at about 9:30pm at their home in Lakeland when she tried to leave the home with two of the children. Bellar apparently opened fire with a 7.62mm rifle and killed his wife, five-month-old Zack James Bellar and seven-year-old Ryan Patrick Bellar in the front porch area.
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