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Ice Cave Collapse Kills 1; Injures 5

An ice cave that is part of the Big Four Ice Caves at Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest east of Seattle partially collapsed, killing a 34-year-old woman.

Eight people were in the back of the cave when the collapse took place around 5 p.m. Tuesday.  The caves had large warning signs about instability but the caves were not blocked.

“It’s not illegal to go in the caves. However, we’ve been saying since mid-May, it’s extremely dangerous with all this hot weather,” Shari Ireton with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office told CNN before noting that hot weather weakens the caves.

“There was a large pile of ice and rock that came down,” she said. “So it wasn’t just one big slab. … It wasn’t a piece of a shelf coming off.”

“They’re essentially a frozen-over avalanche chute sitting over a waterfall, sitting below a giant rock shoot,” Ireton added. “It’s incredibly dangerous.”

A witness told ABC that she heard a pop before the ice gave way.

“Everybody was happy. It was really cool. … [Then] we heard a pop and I got really nervous and I just look up and there’s, I see there’s this sheet of ice coming down,” said Chloe Jakubowski, 18. “I crouched down as quickly as I could and I put my hands over my head.”

“It was really scary,” she said. “I just didn’t know if those were going to be my last few moments.”

A 25-year-old man hurt in the collapse remains in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center although his status was upgraded from critical to serious.

Day of Violence in Nigeria Leaves 60 Dead

Islamic terrorists launched a day of violence in Nigeria against both Christians and Muslims on Sunday leaving more than 60 dead.

Boko Haram bombed a crowded mosque and Muslim restaurant in the city of Jos.  Muslim community lawyer Ahmed Garba told Fox News that 51 people died in the twin attacks and were buried on Monday.  An additional 67 were wounded and remain hospitalized.

A witness said that the bomber at the mosque appeared to be targeting cleric Sani Yahaya.

“He is a great Islamic scholar who has spoken out against Boko Haram, and that is why we believe he was the target,” Danladi Sani told The Associated Press.

The terrorists also attacked an evangelical Christian church in Potiskum along with a campaign of arson against villages that burned over 300 homes.

Boko Haram has ramped up violence in response to a call by ISIS terrorists for increased activity during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attacks and said that he will protect the rights of Nigerians to freely worship.

In the last week the terrorist group has killed over 300 people.

California Woman Dies From Brain Eating Amoeba

A 21-year-old California woman is dead after falling victim to a brain eating amoeba.

Health officials would not release the name of the woman but said she likely contracted the infection while swimming on private property.  They do not believe that anyone other than family and friends who used the same body of water could be at risk.

The amoeba, known as Naegleria flowleri, thrive in warm freshwater lakes, ponds and hot springs.  The infection can take hold of a human when the amoeba travels through the nasal passages and into the brain.  Once in the brain, the amoeba will destroy the brain tissue.  The victim usually dies within 3 to 18 days.

The Centers for Disease Control says that of 133 cases in the U.S. in the last 52 years, only three people have survived infection.  The victim in this case was admitted to Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop, California on June 16th and was diagnosed with meningitis.  When she didn’t improve, she was flown to Reno, Nevada where the CDC confirmed the deadly amoeba.

The interesting thing about the amoeba is that while it is widespread, it does not seek a human host.

“It is unknown why certain persons become infected with the amoeba while millions of others exposed to warm recreational fresh waters, including those who were swimming with people who became infected, do not,” Richard Johnson, M.D., of Inyo Public Health said in the report.

The CDC recommends that people avoid poorly maintained or unmaintained freshwater sources including pools, hot springs and ponds.

Boko Haram Storms Village; 150 Dead

Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram launched a surprise attack Wednesday night on villages in the north-eastern part of Borno state that has left at least 150 people dead.

The deadliest attack was on the village of Kakawa where the Islamists killed 97 people including women and children.

“The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,” eyewitness Babami Alhaji Kolo said to AFP news agency.  “They… opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children.  They spared nobody. In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food.”

The attacks on Wednesday followed Tuesday assaults on two towns where 48 men were shot after finishing prayers.

The two villages attacked are on the outskirts of the town of Monguno which the military recently recaptured from the terrorists.

“They were praying in the mosque when Boko Haram attackers descended on the village. They waited till they finished the prayers. They gathered them in one place, separated men from women and opened fire on them,” a Monguno resident told the BBC. “Many died, some escaped. They then set the village on fire. I saw five victims with bullet wounds who managed to escape. They were brought to [Monguno] on wheelbarrows, before they were transferred to vehicles that took them to hospitals.”

China Struck By 6.5 Magnitude Quake

At least four people are dead and the toll is expected to rise after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Xinjang region of China.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake took place in one of the “most seismically hazardous regions on Earth” and centered the quake 59 miles southeast of Yilkiqi, China.

“If many people are gathered in one place during an earthquake, it can lead to a serious disaster, but in this case, there were relatively few people so it isn’t so serious,” China Earthquake Networks Center researcher Sun Shihong told state broadcaster China Central Television.

Dozens are reported injured by multiple sources and the government reported thousands of homes and buildings in the region were damaged or destroyed.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs put the number of damaged homes alone at 3,000.

Over 1,000 tents are being sent into the region to provide temporary shelter for families who have lost their homes.

Washington Woman Dies From Measles

Washington state officials have confirmed a woman’s death from measles, the first person in the U.S. to die of the disease in 12 years.

The Washington State Department of Health said it was likely the woman became exposed during an outbreak in Clallam County, just northwest of Seattle.  The disease was reported in six people in the county versus a total of 11 in the state.

The woman visited a medical facility at the same time as a person later diagnosed with measles.  She had a variety of health issues that depressed her immune system which caused death via pneumonia from measles.

“This tragic situation illustrates the importance of immunizing as many people as possible to provide a high level of community protection against measles,” the state health department’s statement read. “People with compromised immune systems often cannot be vaccinated against measles.”

The CDC said that measles were effectively eliminated in the United States in 2000 but are making a comeback due to adults who are delaying or avoiding vaccinations for their children.

The CDC said that 178 people have been diagnosed with measles in the United States this year with many connected to an outbreak at Disneyland during the 2014 holiday season.

Three Islamic Terror Attacks Kill Dozens

Three Islamic terror attacks were carried out almost simultaneously today after call for “Ramadan calamity.”

In Lyon, France, a terrorist named Yassin Salih rammed a car through the gate of an American-owned chemical factory.  He attempted to blow up the complex but failed.  He then decapitated the manager of the complex and posted his head on a fence by the factory.  Salih also posted Islamist flags to the fence.

Salih, which French officials confirmed they had under surveillance as a possible terrorist sympathizer, was wounded in the explosion and taken into custody.  His wife and one other accomplice have also been taken into custody.

French President Francois Hollande confirmed it was an Islamist terror attack.

In Tunisia, at least two terrorists stormed a beach popular with tourists and gunned down 27 people.  An attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait has left at least 25 dead.  Hundreds were wounded in both attacks.

On Tuesday, the spokesman for the terrorist group ISIS issued a call for “calamity” for “infidels, crusaders, Shiites and apostates”.

“Be keen to conquer in this holy month and to become exposed to martyrdom,” Abu Mohamed al-Adnani said.

ISIS Releases Video Showing Executions

Islamic terrorist group ISIS has released a video showing a series of brutal executions in what they say is an instructional video on dealing with spies.

The video, filmed in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, shows the brutal killing of a dozen condemned men.  In the first segment, men are placed into a car and then a terrorist blows up the car with a rocket propelled grenade.  The screams of the men in the car can be clearly heard on the recording.

In the second section, they lower men in a cage into a swimming pool to drown and use an underwater camera to show the men dying.  In the third, they line kneeling men up and wrap an explosive cord around their necks which is then detonated.

The film is intercut with footage of the condemned men allegedly confessing to their “crimes.”

The video comes on the heels of a major ISIS operative being killed in an air strike outside of Mosul.  A Pentagon spokesman revealed Wednesday that Ali Awni al-Harzi of Tunisia, a person of interest in the 2012 Benghazi attack, died in a June 15th strike.

“His death degrades ISIL’s ability to integrate North African jihadists into the Syrian and Iraqi fight and removes a jihadist with long ties to international terrorism,” Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said.

Plague Expert: “No One’s Fault” Teen Died From Plague

An expert on the plague says that the death of a teenage boy in Colorado was likely unavoidable because of how the disease presents itself.

‘You need some kind of indication from patient history that [plague] is what it is,” Dr. Robert Perry, plague researcher with the University of Kentucky, told USA Headline News.  “Septicemic is rare enough and doesn’t have really many more symptoms that anybody would think of going in real soon for that.”

“If he had gone in soon enough, and the doctors had recognized what it was, maybe he would have been OK but after a certain period of time even antibiotics are too late.”

Perry said that the symptoms that would have been presented by Taylor Gaes would have mimicked the flu until the very end.

“There was no reason anyone would have thought it was anything significant, just the flu,” Dr. Perry said.  “Nobody did anything wrong here.  The parents, the kid.”

“It could have been a dozen of viral or bacterial agents,” he continued.  “There aren’t any distinguishing symptoms to say it’s not a flu that you’re going to get over.  And once it progresses to a certain stage, it’s just too late.  It’s essentially the same as pneumonic plague.  The symptoms are pretty common to a bacteria that causes a lung infection.”

“24 to 48 hours after symptoms start to show, it’s too late to treat pneumonic plague.”

Dr. Perry said that because the bacteria went straight into the bloodstream it was classified as “septicemic.”  He said that the other two kinds of plague show earlier symptoms because the bacteria would grow in the skin or lungs before entering the bloodstream.  Once the bacteria enters the bloodstream, it immediately begins to destroy internal organs.

“Septicemic plague is basically bubonic plague that skips the earlier stages,” Dr. Perry said.

ISIS Crucifies Two Children For Eating During Ramadan

Islamic terrorist group ISIS has crucified two children because they ate food before sunset during Ramadan.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the murders Monday.  Muslims are prohibited from taking food or water between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan.

It is the latest in a long string of abuses against children by the Islamic extremists.

“We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child expert Renate Winter said in February about ISIS. “There was a video placed [online] that showed children at a very young age, approximately 8 years of age and younger, being trained to become child soldiers.”

ISIS has also been reported to have kidnapped over a thousand children to be forced into jihadi training camps.

Iraq’s al-Sumaria TV network aired a Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman in Mosul that said ISIS kidnapped 1,227 from various Mosul neighborhoods.  The children have been labeled “Cubs of the Caliphate” and are being educated in the extremist ISIS ideology.