Colorado girl tried to poison mom twice for taking iPhone: Police

DENVER: Police on Friday arrested a 12-year-old Colorado girl accused
of trying to kill her mother twice by poisoning her with bleach for
taking away her iPhone, authorities said.
Boulder County Sheriff's Commander Heidi Prentup said in a statement
that the mother drank the caustic fluid on one of the two attempts,
which both happened within a week this month.
On March 2, the girl poured bleach into a breakfast smoothie that she
had prepared for her mother, Prentup said.
"Mom noticed an odor of bleach in the drink and thought her daughter
had cleaned the glass prior to making the beverage and did not rinse
all the bleach out," the police statement said.
The woman, who was not named by the authorities, was treated at a
local hospital and released.
Four days later, the girl allegedly poured bleach into a water carafe her
mother kept in her bedroom. When the woman smelt bleach, she
became suspicious and confronted her daughter.
"This is when she learned her daughter had developed the plan to kill
her for taking away her iPhone," police said.
Prentup said the mother reported the girl to police, and that
investigators then gathered enough evidence to take her into custody.
The girl was taken to a juvenile detention facility on Friday where is
being held pending the filing of charges.

Sierra Leone president orders three-day national lockdown against Ebola

Heath workers collect samples from the body of a person suspected to
have died from the Ebola virus, as it lies on the street covered in
leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In a delay that some say may have
cost lives, the World Health Organization resisted calling the Ebola
outbreak in West Africa a public health emergency until the summer of
2014, two months after staff raised the possibility and long after a
senior manager called for a drastic change in strategy. (Photo: AP)
Sierra Leone : Sierra Leone's President Ernest Koromo ordered the
country's entire population Saturday to keep to their homes on March
27-29 in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly Ebola epidemic.
"All Sierra Leoneans must stay at home for three days," he announced,
expanding a previous order from the authorities for a lockdown in the
capital Freetown and northern areas of the country.

Samba attack an attempt by militants to raise their low morale: Manohar Parrikar

The two back-to-back terror attacks in Jammu is an
attempt by the militants to boost their morale, which has come down
due to the Army operations, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today
said.
"When the morale of the opponents are down, they make such
attempts to boost it," Parrikar said replying to questions about the
attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
Stating that the International Border has many "nallas", he said at
times it is difficult to man the area completely.
The IB comes under the purview of the BSF.
Giving figures, Parrikar said that about 26 militants have been killed
this year by the Army with only one loss from its side.
He said this proves that the Army was doing better and that
intelligence has also improved.
Terror had again struck Jammu today where militants opened fire at an
army camp on Jammu-Pathankot Highway in Samba district.
Parrikar said the two terrorists have been killed.
Yesterday, 'fidayeen' militants in army fatigues had stormed a police
station in Jammu's Kathua, killing three security personnel and two
civilians, and leaving 11 others including Deputy SP wounded.
Two militants were also killed in the gun battle.