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Posted: 10/26/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

Kids, nanny stabbed

NEW YORK -- A mother returned home to her luxury apartment building near Central Park on Thursday to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bathtub and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them, police said.

The nanny, who was found near a knife, was hospitalized in critical condition and was in police custody, and authorities said she is suspected of killing the children, who were pronounced dead at a hospital.

The children's mother entered the dark apartment with her three-year-old and thought her other two children were out with the 50-year-old nanny, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. She went downstairs and asked the doorman at her building, La Rochelle, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, whether he'd seen them leave. When he said no, she went back upstairs and discovered her two-year-old son and six-year-old daughter in the bathroom, Kelly said. It's unclear how many times the children were stabbed.

Music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, said she heard screams coming from their apartment at around 5:30 p.m.

"There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!"' she said. "It was horrible."

She said she believed the nanny had been hired just recently.

After police arrived, she said, the mother remained in the building's lobby, screaming hysterically and clutching her surviving child.

Holiday truce vowed

BEIRUT -- The embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad promised Thursday to observe a UN-proposed truce during a four-day Muslim holiday, while rebels claimed major gains in the key battleground of Aleppo.

But prospects of the cease-fire taking hold are dim, given Assad's history of broken promises and the rebel momentum in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, where fighters said they advanced into several regime-held neighbourhoods.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged all countries and groups with influence in Syria to pressure both sides to stop the violence in the civil war, his spokesman said.

Girl won't back down

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite insurgent threats against her.

Since she was shot on Oct. 9 in northwestern Pakistan, Malala has become a hero both at home and internationally.

The comments by the father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, were recorded by Pakistani state television.

-- from the news services

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 26, 2012 A20

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