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69-year-old man charged in death of beloved ‘Star Trek’ tour guide

MILTON, N.Y. (WRGB) – A 69-year-old man is facing manslaughter charges in the case of a missing New York man.

Friends of the victim, identified as Thomas Krider, said he was a beloved character in the “Star Trek” and entertainment community.

Ronald Rayher was arrested and arraigned on charges of manslaughter in the second degree and tampering with physical evidence.

Court documents said Rayher moved and hid personal effects belonging to Krider from the scene after his death.

Police in New York reported Krider missing on April 6.

The 40-year-old victim, also known as T.J. Green, was an employee and tour guide at the “Star Trek” set tour in Ticonderoga.

James Crawley, a friend of the victim, said Krider was also a talented Elvis Presley tribute artist and “he will be remembered for his kind and trusting soul and his warm, friendly demeanor.”

“We are devastated by his loss and will keep him close to our hearts,” Crawley said.

Rayher is being held on a $250,000 bond. He is due back in court on May 21.

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Officials: Man who killed North Country 'Star Trek' tour guide, Elvis impersonator used chloroform

N ew details have emerged in the death of a Ticonderoga man known for his work as an Elvis Presley impersonator and as a tour guide for a local "Star Trek" museum after he went missing last weekend.

Thomas Krider, who worked under the stage name TJ Greene, was a popular impersonator who also worked at the Star Trek Tour as a guide.

The Saratoga County Sheriff's Office reported on Tuesday that Krider had been found dead in Milton, New York, after he was reported missing by his wife on Saturday morning, according to the Times Union.

On Tuesday, the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office said they had arrested 69-year-old Ronald Rayher, of Milton, on charges of second-degree manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence.

The sheriff's office said Rayher allegedly killed Krider at his home in Milton on April 5. They said Rayher, a retired chiropractor, administered a substance called chloroform more than once and also allegedly tampered with and suppressed evidence after the incident.

Krider's wife, Heidi Greene, told the Times Union that her husband had left their home on Friday to pick up a free box spring from someone in exchange for helping them move some furniture.

Saratoga County Undersheriff Jeffrey Brown confirmed that Rayher and Krider had been in a relationship with one another for around 10 years.

Brown told the Times Union that the chloroform was administered consensually during what was described as a sexual encounter.

According to court documents obtained by NBC5, officials stated that Krider, who was bound and restrained at the time of his death, died after the chloroform was administered "more than one time".

Greene said Krider was supposed to return home to work a shift as a tour guide at his job at Star Trek Tour that weekend, as well as to work for a special event during the solar eclipse, but wasn't heard from again.

He loved his job too much to ever miss a shift, Greene told the Times Union.

Greene told the Times Union that she and Krider were both Poultney residents who had met nearly 20 years ago while working at the Rutland, Vermont, Walmart. They moved to the Glens Falls area soon after, where Krider worked as a costumed character at Six Flags Great Escape.

James Cawley, of the Ticonderoga Star Trek Tour, released the following statement about Krider's death, saying in part:

"TJ Greene was an employee and tour guide at the Star Trek Set Tour and a great friend to everyone here. He was a talented Elvis tribute artist. He will be remembered for his kind and trusting soul and his warm, friendly demeanor. We are devastated by his loss and will keep him close to our hearts."

Rayher was arraigned in Milton Town Court and remanded to the Saratoga County Jail on 250,000 bail.

The sheriff's department confirmed that more charges could be coming since this is an ongoing investigation. He is due back in court in May.

Editor's note: The Times Union is owned by NBC5's parent company, Hearst Corporation.

An earlier version of this story stated that Krider also acted as a "Star Trek" impersonator.

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Breaking news, isis-linked terrorists murdered couple on safari honeymoon in uganda: ‘cowardly’.

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Newlyweds celebrating their honeymoon on safari in Africa were murdered alongside their tour guide in what Uganda’s president called a “cowardly act” by ISIS-linked terrorists.

The so-far unidentified honeymooners — a British man and a South African woman — were killed with their Ugandan guide when their vehicle was torched by terrorists in Queen Elizabeth National Park late Tuesday, local officials said.

Ugandan authorities blamed the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, a terror group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS.

“It was a cowardly act on the part of the terrorists attacking innocent civilians and tragic for the couple who were newlyweds and visiting Uganda on their honeymoon,”   President Yoweri Museveni tweeted .

“Of course, these terrorists will pay with their own wretched lives.”

Photos of the horrifying attack show a green safari truck fully ablaze on a dirt road.

While the ADF began in Uganda, the group has been based in the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s and pledged allegiance to ISIS four years ago.

The two nations launched a joint operation in December 2021 to try and eliminate the group from eastern Congo. Since then, Uganda has killed more than 560 fighters and destroyed their camps.

Despite this, Museveni on Wednesday acknowledged there have been “gaps” in how the “remnants” of the group have been dealt with.

Museveni noted that “a small group of terrorists running away from our operations in Congo” were responsible for the attack on the tourist vehicle.

Queen Elizabeth National Park, one of Uganda’s most popular conservation sites, is in a remote area of southwestern Uganda near the Congo border.

The ADF has seemingly started to ramp up attacks on Uganda in recent months, ever since a June attack where the group was accused of killing at least 41 people, mostly students, in a raid on a remote Ugandan border community.

Following the attack, Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office advised against all but essential travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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Update: New Details Emerge of Exum Guide’s Death

MOOSE, Wyo. — New information indicates that 42-year-old Exum guide Gary Falk fell after unclipping from an anchor at the top of the Owen-Spalding rappel to free a piece of gear that had become stuck. The gear in question, a rappel device, was being raised to Falk when it became wedged.

Grand Teton National Park spokeswoman Denise Germann told the  Jackson Hole News&Guide that after the rappel device became stuck, “Falk unclipped his tether from the anchor to reposition himself. … It appears that Falk fell as he was trying to free the wedged rappel device.”

After the accident, a call was placed to Teton Interagency Dispatch at approximately 10:30 a.m., triggering a search and rescue response.

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Reports indicate another Exum guide assisted the remaining clients down from the mountain.

A family man, Falk had been an Exum guide for 12 years, spending his summers in Jackson Hole and his winters in the San Juans in Southwest Colorado. He leaves behind a wife and two children.

Exum co-owner Cyndi Hargis reinforced that this is a rare and significant blow to the North American mountaineering family.

“Everyone is devastated,” she said. “It’s a very tight-knit community. It’s hard to lose one of us. … He was a great guy. He was the father of two young boys, loved by everyone and will be greatly missed.”

According to Hargis, it’s been a decade since an Exum guide perished while working in the Tetons. To honor the fallen, the company gave its entire staff the day off Sunday to pay their respects and come to terms with their colleague and friend’s death. All trips scheduled for the day were canceled.

“Everyone is kind of regrouping,” Hargis said. “We will go back tomorrow.”

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Montana backcountry guide dies after he was mauled by grizzly near Yellowstone

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday.

Charles "Carl" Mock, 40, who lived in the park gateway community of West Yellowstone, died Saturday, two days after he was attacked while fishing alone in a forested area along the Madison River several miles north of West Yellowstone, Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Christine Koosman said.

The male bear, which weighed at least 420 pounds, was later shot and killed when it charged wildlife workers investigating the attack.

The moose carcass was found about 50 yards from the site of the attack, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesperson Morgan Jacobsen.

Mock, who suffered significant scalp and facial wounds, managed to call 911 after the attack and was found after searchers looked for him for about 50 minutes.

He was transported by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in the city of Idaho Falls, where he died, according to the sheriff’s office.

Mock was a guide at Backcountry Adventure, which provides snowmobile rentals and tours in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas of national forest, according to the company’s Facebook page.

A fundraising website set up on Mock’s behalf following the mauling said he was passionate about the outdoors and a beloved guide for Yellowstone visitors.

Mock when attacked had bear spray — a Mace-like deterrent meant to protect against attacks. Bear spray residue was found on Mock’s clothing, but officials could not determine to what extent he was able to use it against the bear.

“He was the only one who was there and we were never able to talk to him,” Jacobsen said.

The grizzly was killed Friday after it charged a group of seven game wardens and other personnel as they approached the scene of the attack. Several people fired at the animal and it died about 20 yards from the group, Jacobsen said.

Officials said they are confident the bear that was killed is the one that attacked Mock.

The Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming has more than 700 bears. Fatal attacks on humans are relatively rare but increased in recent decades as the grizzly population grew and more people moved into rural areas near bear habitat. Since 2010, grizzlies in the Yellowstone region killed eight people including Mock. Three died inside the park.

The most recent death was in 2018, when a hunting guide and his client were attacked in Wyoming and the guide was killed.

Grizzlies bears have been federally protected as a threatened species outside Alaska since 1975 after being widely exterminated by trappers and hunters early last century.

Hunting grizzlies is not allowed. But lawmakers from Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are trying to force wildlife officials to lift protections so the bears can be hunted.

Mock’s friend, Scott Riley, said he was "an extremely experienced" guide who knew the risks of living and working in proximity to grizzly bears.

Mock, who was single and originally from Pocatello, Idaho, had been fishing in the same area all week without incident, Riley said. His friend said he spent ample time outdoors with Mock, who also kayaked, hunted and rode his motorcycle, and they'd seen lots of bears but never had any problem.

"He was the best guide around,” Riley said. “He had sight like an eagle and hearing like an owl. ... Carl was a great guy."

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IPOH: A 44-year-old tour guide was killed after a rock fell on his head at a popular tourist spot in Taman Saikat here.

Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Abang Zainal Abidin Abang Ahmad said the victim, who was bringing a group of tourists from Vietnam to visit the city, died on the spot at about 11.30am on Monday (April 8).

"A postmortem conducted at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital corroborates the cause of death and there was no foul play.

"The case has been classified as sudden death," he said in a statement.

"The police welcome the cooperation of the people who may have information on the incident to contact the district police control centre at 05-254 2222 to assist with the investigation," he added.

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A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday.

Charles "Carl" Mock, 40, who lived in the park gateway community of West Yellowstone, died Saturday, two days after he was attacked while fishing alone in a forested area along the Madison River several miles north of West Yellowstone, Gallatin County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Christine Koosman said.

The male bear, which weighed at least 420 pounds, was later shot and killed when it charged wildlife workers investigating the attack, officials said in a statement .

The moose carcass was found about 50 yards from the site of the attack, said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesperson Morgan Jacobsen.

Mock, who suffered significant scalp and facial wounds, managed to call 911 after the attack and was found after searchers looked for him for about 50 minutes.

He was transported by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in the city of Idaho Falls, where he died, according to the sheriff's office.

Mock was a guide at Backcountry Adventure, which provides snowmobile rentals and tours in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas of national forest, according to the company's Facebook page.

A GoFundMe site set up on Mock's behalf following the mauling said he was passionate about the outdoors and a beloved guide for Yellowstone visitors. The site had raised more than $30,000 by Tuesday morning.

Mock when attacked had bear spray - a Mace-like deterrent meant to protect against attacks. Bear spray residue was found on Mock's clothing, but officials could not determine to what extent he was able to use it against the bear.

"He was the only one who was there and we were never able to talk to him," Jacobsen said.

The grizzly was killed Friday after it charged a group of seven game wardens and other personnel as they approached the scene of the attack. Several people fired at the animal and it died about 20 yards (18 meters) from the group, Jacobsen said.

Officials said they are confident the bear that was killed is the one that attacked Mock.

The Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming has more than 700 bears. Fatal attacks on humans are relatively rare but increased in recent decades as the grizzly population grew and more people moved into rural areas near bear habitat. Since 2010, grizzlies in the Yellowstone region killed eight people including Mock. Three died inside the park.

The most recent death was in 2018, when a hunting guide and his client were attacked in Wyoming and the guide was killed.

Last year, a grizzly bear seriously injured a father and son who were hunting in a "surprise" attack.

Hunting grizzlies is not allowed. But lawmakers from Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are trying to force wildlife officials to lift protections so the bears can be hunted.

Mock's friend, Scott Riley, said he was "an extremely experienced" guide who knew the risks of living and working in proximity to grizzly bears.

Mock, who was single and originally from Pocatello, Idaho, had been fishing in the same area all week without incident, Riley said. His friend said he spent ample time outdoors with Mock, who also kayaked, hunted and rode his motorcycle, and they'd seen lots of bears but never had any problem.

"He was the best guide around," Riley said. "He had sight like an eagle and hearing like an owl. ... Carl was a great guy."

Montana's grizzly and human populations have both risen substantially since 1975, when the bears were protected under the Endangered Species Act, "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker reported last year . See his full report in the video at the top of this page.

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Montana guide mauled to death in grizzly bear attack outside Yellowstone

Charles Mock, 40, died of scalp and facial wounds after managing to call 911 for help

A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone national park , officials said Monday.

Charles “Carl” Mock, 40, who lived in the park gateway community of West Yellowstone, died Saturday, two days after he was attacked while fishing alone in a forested area along the Madison River several miles north of West Yellowstone, said a Gallatin county sheriff’s office spokesperson, Christine Koosman.

The male bear, which weighed at least 420 pounds (190kg), was later shot and killed when it charged wildlife workers investigating the attack.

The moose carcass was found about 50 yards (45 meters) from the site of the attack, said a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesperson, Morgan Jacobsen.

Mock, who suffered significant scalp and facial wounds, managed to call 911 after the attack and was found after searchers looked for him for about 50 minutes.

He was transported by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in the city of Idaho Falls, where he died, according to the sheriff’s office.

Mock was a guide at Backcountry Adventure, which provides snowmobile rentals and tours in Yellowstone national park and surrounding areas of national forest, according to the company’s Facebook page.

A fundraising website set up on Mock’s behalf after the mauling said he was passionate about the outdoors and a beloved guide for Yellowstone visitors.

Residue from bear spray – a Mace-like deterrent meant to protect against attacks – was found on Mock’s clothing, but officials could not determine to what extent he was able to use it against the bear.

The grizzly was killed Friday after it charged a group of seven game wardens and other personnel as they approached the scene of the attack. Several people fired at the animal and it died about 20 yards (18 meters) from the group, Jacobsen said.

Officials said they are confident the bear that was killed was the one that attacked Mock.

The Yellowstone region of Montana , Idaho and Wyoming is home to more than 700 bears. Fatal attacks on humans are relatively rare but have increased as the grizzly population grew and more people moved into rural areas near bear habitat. Since 2010 grizzlies in the Yellowstone region have killed eight people, including Mock. Three died inside the park.

The last death before Mock’s was in 2018, when a hunting guide and his client were attacked in Wyoming and the guide was killed.

Grizzlies have been federally protected as a threatened species outside Alaska since 1975 after being widely exterminated by trappers and hunters early last century.

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Israeli Is Killed by Palestinian Near Holiest Site in Jerusalem

The shooting, the first attack by a Palestinian since May to result in the death of a Jewish civilian, could deepen tensions within Israel’s fragile governing coalition.

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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian teacher shot dead an Israeli tour guide with an automatic gun near the holiest site in Jerusalem on Sunday morning, Israeli officials said. It was the first killing of a Jewish Israeli civilian by a Palestinian gunman since May.

The militant Islamist group Hamas said the gunman was a senior member of its movement in East Jerusalem.

The attack immediately revived calls from right-wing Israelis to install metal detectors near the entrances to the holy site — known as the Temple Mount to Jews and as the Noble Sanctuary or the Aqsa Mosque compound to Muslims — a proposal that set off deadly unrest among Palestinians when Israel last tried to implement the idea in 2017. Such a plan would also risk aggravating tensions within the fragile Israeli governing coalition, a diverse alliance that includes Jewish right-wing parties and an Arab group.

Tensions over the site , which is sacred to both Jews and Muslims, played a major role in the prelude to an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas this year.

The gunman in the attack on Sunday opened fire on at least three civilians and two police officers shortly after 9 a.m. in an alley outside the site. One civilian was killed by a shot to the head, a second civilian was moderately wounded and two police officers and a third civilian were lightly hurt, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli affiliate of the International Red Cross.

The man killed was later named by the police as Eliyahu Kay, a tour guide who was on his way to work at the Western Wall, one of the last remaining parts of an ancient Jewish temple compound that was destroyed in antiquity.

The attacker was shot dead by security officers seconds after the assault, according to Omer Bar Lev, an Israeli minister who oversees the police.

The gunman was named in the Israeli and Palestinian news media as Fadi Abu Shkhaydem, 42, a teacher from a Palestinian district in East Jerusalem. In a statement published by a television channel owned by Hamas, he was identified as a senior leader of the movement in Shuafat, an area of East Jerusalem that mostly houses Palestinians whose families fled fighting during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948.

In the statement, Hamas — which runs the Gaza Strip and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Israel and other countries — praised the attacker and acknowledged his role within the movement but did not directly claim responsibility for the attack.

Political violence is common in the Old City of Jerusalem, which was captured by Israel from Jordan during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and later annexed. Police officers killed a second Palestinian assailant in the Old City this past week after a separate attack and shot dead two others in failed attempts in September.

Palestinians regard the Old City as occupied and hope that it will form part of the capital of a future Palestinian state.

The attack on Sunday was relatively unusual because it involved a gun and because such assaults do not often result in the death of an Israeli civilian. Other recent attempts in the Old City have seen attackers wielding knives and targeting security officials, but the assailants were shot dead by the police before being able to kill anyone.

In a statement, Mr. Bar Lev said that the assailant’s wife left for a foreign country three days ago, implying some degree of forethought to the attack.

After the killing, a second government minister, Yoaz Hendel, called for the installation of metal detectors outside the Aqsa compound, a move originally proposed by Israel in 2017 but aborted after it set off violence that left several people dead .

For Jews, the Temple Mount is considered the most sacred place in Judaism because it was once the location of two temples where tradition holds that God’s presence was revealed. For Palestinians, the Noble Sanctuary is seen as central to their national identity because in Islamic tradition, it is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.

A visit to the site in 2000 by Ariel Sharon, then the leader of the Israeli opposition who a year later became prime minister, is seen as one of the main sparks of the second Palestinian intifada , or uprising.

Since 1967, Israel has allowed the Jordanian government to retain administrative oversight of the site, and nominally permits Jews only to visit the compound, not to pray there. But Israel also retains overall security oversight and controls access. The Israeli police recently began to quietly allow Jewish prayer at the site and have often raided it during times of unrest. Several Israeli raids last April and May formed the backdrop to a subsequent 11-day war between Israel and militants in Gaza.

Major flare-ups in Gaza have been averted since May as the two sides conduct indirect negotiations to stabilize the cease-fire. But low-level violence has surged in the occupied West Bank. According to records compiled by the United Nations , 76 Palestinians have been killed so far this year during protests, clashes and raids in the West Bank — higher than in any year since 2016. Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank are also at a five-year high, according to United Nations data.

One Israeli has been killed in the West Bank in 2021, the lowest toll in at least five years.

Irit Pazner Garshowitz contributed research.

An earlier version of this article misstated what the Palestinian attacker was wearing. He was not disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew. It also misstated the number of Israelis killed so far this year in the West Bank. It is one, not at least 12.

An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the Western Wall. It is one of the last remaining parts of an ancient Jewish temple compound, not the last remaining part of an ancient Jewish temple.

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Tour of Romandie win is career-best title for Carlos Rodriguez through rain-slicked final stage

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VERNIER, Switzerland (AP) — Carlos Rodriguez protected his yellow jersey through a rain-soaked final stage Sunday to win the six-day Tour of Romandie for the biggest race victory of his career.

Four previous winners in the French-speaking region of Switzerland went on to win that season’s Tour de France, including Chris Froome in 2013. Rodriguez placed fifth in cycling’s marquee event last year and won a stage.

Rodriguez started Sunday’s flat stage that looped round the suburbs of Geneva — won in a sprint finish by Dorian Godon — with a seven-second lead he took by placing third in a mountain stage Saturday.

The 23-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider kept that winning margin over runner-up Aleksandr Vlasov, the 2022 Romandie winner. Third-placed Florian Lipowitz was third, trailing Rodriquez by nine seconds.

Godon sealed his second stage win this week, edging Simone Consonni with Dion Smith third.

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Uganda Vows to Track Down Killers of Tour Guide, Honeymoon Couple

FILE PHOTO: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a session of the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 28, 2023. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS Host Photo Agency via REUTERS/File Photo

NAIROBI (Reuters) - President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Wednesday that Ugandan forces would track down those responsible for the deaths of a safari guide and two foreign tourists who were honeymooning in a national park.

Ugandan authorities have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of killing the couple, a South African and a British national, and their Ugandan guide on Tuesday evening near the Queen Elizabeth National Park.

The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s, pledged allegiance to Islamic State four years ago.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, its telegram channel said.

After operating primarily in Congo for years, ADF has stepped up attacks inside Uganda in recent months, including a raid in June on a secondary school that killed more than 40 people.

"It was a cowardly act on the part of the terrorists attacking innocent civilians and tragic for the couple who were newlyweds and visiting Uganda on their honeymoon," Museveni said in a post on the social media site X, formerly Twitter.

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"Of course, these terrorists will pay with their own wretched lives."

Uganda and Congo launched a joint ground and air operation against the ADF in December 2021 in an effort to eliminate them from eastern Congo.

Uganda says it has succeeded in killing more than 560 fighters and destroyed their camps, but Museveni on Wednesday acknowledged "gaps" in how the security services had dealt with "remnants" of the group that continue to pose a threat.

The Bridgeway Foundation, a U.S.-based think tank that studies the ADF, noted in a brief analysis that the attack occurred about 20 km (12 miles) from the Congo border, far deeper into Ugandan territory than previous raids.

Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office on Wednesday advised against all but essential travel to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

The office said it was providing consular assistance to the British national's family.

(Reporting by Giulia Paravicini; Additional reporting by Yomna Ehab in Cairo and Estelle Shirbon in London; Editing by George Obulutsa, Aaron Ross, Christina Fincher and Bill Berkrot)

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Tour guide rescues man from avalanche near Revelstoke, B.C.

Man was trapped for about 10 minutes before tour guide arrived.

Tour guide who rescued man from avalanche near Revelstoke hailed a hero

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A tour guide is being hailed a hero because of his fast actions pulling a man to safety after a group of snowmobilers got hit by an avalanche earlier this week. 

Olivier Meilleur was heading down Boulder Mountain in Revelstoke, B.C., about 565 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, after a day of sledding when he noticed a group of men frantically searching in the snow.

"I was not too sure what was going on at the beginning," Meilleur told Daybreak South host Chris Walker. "I didn't know, like somebody was buried."

But he sprang into action, helping dig out a man who had been trapped in the snow.

• 'Very dangerous' avalanche warning persists for parts of B.C.

Meilleur works with Great Canadian Tours, which shared the story of the rescue to its Facebook page to raise awareness about backcountry safety. In response, many commenters are touting Meilleur as a hero.

But he says it's simply an example of being prepared for potentially dangerous backcountry conditions.

Trapped for 10 minutes

Meilleur was leading a group when he noticed the distress. He left them in a safe place before heading over to the snowmobilers, whom he says looked like they needed help.

As it turned out, a man was buried under the snow — for about 10 minutes by the time Meilleur arrived, he says.

The man was buried by a size-three avalanche, which Avalanche Canada defines as big enough to bury and destroy a car or a small building, damage a truck, or break a few trees. 

Meilleur asked the group if their avalanche beacons were on search mode. 

"They told me yes, but we can't find a signal. So right away I took my transceiver out and started doing a transceiver search. And I found [a signal] pretty quick, [but it] was far away."

Professional skier survives an avalanche in Revelstoke, B.C. in 2020

He says the group started to probe the snow in the new area and within about five minutes were able to dig the man out. 

Meilleur credits his training and experience as a tour guide for helping save the man's life. 

"You make sure there's a leader who's taking charge of the scene and seeing, like, the big pictures."

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When the man surfaced, Meilleur says he was blue in the face, experiencing cyanosis, the term given when skin appears blue or purple because of a lack of oxygen. 

He and the others put the man flat on his back on the snow, and Meilleur went to retrieve his first aid kit from his backpack.

"When I came back I noticed he gained back his colour ... I checked for a pulse, I couldn't really find the pulse. He was a bit hypothermic, like a bit cold, so I couldn't find a pulse right away … I could find a pulse after I think like 45 seconds or so."

The snowmobile group had sent out an SOS signal as soon as the avalanche hit, so rescue crews arrived quickly.  

Meilleur says afterwards, he was in contact with the man who was rescued, and he was without injury. 

Rescue highlights importance of preparedness: guide

Meilleur says the ordeal is an example of why training, like the basic Avalanche Skills Training 1 (AST 1) course, is important for people in the backcountry.

"I mean, if I didn't pass by it would have been dead for sure," Meilleur said.

"The problem with that crew is they had all the gear, they just didn't know how to use it properly. So training and taking courses, it's so important out there."

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It's especially important as Avalanche Canada has just issued a special warning  saying recent storms have resulted in some of the most dangerous backcountry conditions B.C. has seen all season.

Alex Ibbotson, who owns Canada Backcountry Services and teaches avalanche safety and training in B.C., says the current combination of weak layers in the snowpack makes things unpredictable, and it's imperative people have the proper training. 

She suggests anyone venturing into the backcountry for recreation in the winter take at least AST 1. 

Experts offer safety training as forecasters predict a severe avalanche season in B.C.

"It will help you to understand what exactly Avalanche Canada's forecasts are saying … but also how to properly use your equipment," Ibbotson said, adding that often people who take the courses with her have never turned on their transceiver before.

"It's definitely not straightforward, intuitive science to be able to follow your transceiver to a signal. So that's something people have to try at least once before they're taking themselves — their family members, their friends, their spouses — out into some hazardous terrain." 

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Shocking Video Captures Moment Brazilian Tour Guide Is Killed by Lightning Strike as Hikers Capture Final Moments [GRAPHIC]

An air ambulance was dispatched to the site immediately but de Souza had already died by the time paramedics arrived.

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A seasoned tour guide in Brazil was killed by a freak lightning strike after he had cautioned his group about the possibility of rain. Leilson de Souza, 36, was guiding hikers along a trail in Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro when he was struck by lightning on Sunday morning and died on the scene.

The chilling moment which was caught on camera shows lighting striking de Souza as the other tourists scream in shock. Karlla Araujo, 26, was recording a selfie video that captured the group standing on top of a large rock, with de Souza walking on another rock just moments before he was struck by lightning.

Bolt from the Blue

As Araujo was recording the video, a loud sound could be heard in the background as the woman screamed, and the video abruptly concluded.

Araujo told the Brazilian online news outlet G1 that de Souza had told them about the possibility of rain in the afternoon. Despite the unpredictable weather conditions, he assured them it would be fine to continue hiking.

The group, led by de Souza, who had a decade of experience in guiding tours, opted to proceed with the two-hour hike to the peak. However, rain began midway through their trek.

"He asked if we wanted to continue and everyone decided, yes." Araújo said. "The guide said there was a chance to get out to the end and have a view in the sun."

The hikers were accompanied by one of Souza's brothers, who is also undergoing training to become a tour guide.

"We were in total despair. I wanted to go down but at the same time I was afraid, because more lightning could strike," Araújo said.

Tour Ends in Tragedy

Leilson de Souza had a passion for hiking and was pursuing studies in environmental management in college. In June, he achieved a significant feat by scaling Dedo de Deus, a 5,551-foot mountain in Serra dos Órgãos National Park, Rio de Janeiro.

His brother, Leonardo Barros, told the Brazilian outlet Globo that the family found it challenging to come to terms with the fact that de Souza had lost his life due to a lightning strike.

"At the time, we didn't believe it. But, with the way it happened, we would never have imagined it,' he said. 'We imagine dying anyway, passing away anyway, but by lightning, it's complicated.

"He was an excellent person, he did everything for everyone, he was a guy who always wanted to take special people, elderly people, everything out on the trail. His business was mountaineering, it was nature."

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are around 40 million lightning strikes that reach the ground in the United States each year. The likelihood of being struck by lightning annually is less than one in a million, and fortunately, more than 90 percent of those struck by lightning survive.

As of 2023, National Weather Service data indicates that 13 people in the United States have lost their lives due to lightning strikes, including three in separate incidents related to boating and swimming.

Froilanis Rivas, a 34-year-old mother-of-two from Venezuela, tragically lost her life last Tuesday after being struck by lightning on a beach in the town of Barranquilla, Colombia.

Rivas was standing near the shore when she was hit, causing her to collapse onto the sand. She then suffered a massive cardiac arrest and was swiftly transported to a local hospital. Despite efforts by medical professionals to revive her, Rivas was pronounced dead.

In a separate incident in September, a Mexican woman named Elvia de Jesús and a hammock seller, Felix Andres, met a similar fate when struck by lightning on Maruata Beach in Michoacán, Mexico.

Elvia de Jesús and Felix Andres were walking together after leaving the water when they were both hit by a lightning bolt. Unfortunately, both victims were declared dead at the scene.

Momento em que um raio atinge um guia turístico foi gravado por Karlla Conceição Araújo da Silva, de 26 anos. Ela, o marido e um grupo de amigos estavam acompanhados pelo profissional em uma trilha na Pedra da Gávea, no Rio de Janeiro, quando foram surpreendidos pelo fenômeno. pic.twitter.com/NBMYHtSdSI — Portal Roma News (@RomaNewsOficial) November 20, 2023

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The jesuit clerics were shot inside a church while sheltering a man who was being chased by attackers in the mountains of tarahumara.

The Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales, 78, and Joaquín Mora, 80 were murdered on Monday inside a church in the village of Cerocahui, in the Tarahumara mountains in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua. Both were shot dead as they were sheltering a 60-year-old tourist guide named Pedro Palma who was being chased by assailants. local authorities have confirmed.

Despite the pleas of the only priest who was spared, the criminals threw the bodies into a pickup truck and these have not yet been recovered. In addition to the clerics and the guide, four other people were kidnapped Monday morning in this small community of just over 1,000 inhabitants. The victims are two men, a woman and a minor, according to the State Prosecutor’s Office.

Authorities have confirmed that there were two attacks. The first involved the kidnapping of Paul Osvaldo B. and Armando B. , as well as an unidentified woman and minor. The second incident took place at around 1pm inside the church, where three men were shot according to the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed the facts in his news conference on Tuesday and acknowledged the violence suffered by the State of Chihuahua due to the onslaught of organized crime. “We are now attending to this matter. It seems that we already have information about the possible perpetrators of these crimes,” he said.

The multiple crime in Sierra Tarahumara is another reminder that Mexico endures the bloodiest figures in its history, with 90 to 100 murders a day. No matter how much López Obrador may boasts of a “containment” in homicide figures, killings like Monday’s send a powerful message: whether or not more murders take place will depend on the will of the criminals .

Around 30 priests have been murdered in the last decade in Mexico, according to the religious organization Centro Católico Multimedial, The wave of violence has also reached inside churches and temples that often provide shelter to citizens fleeing attackers.

The main suspect is a criminal leader in the area, Jose Noriel Portillo, better known El Chueco, according to local press reports. The region is besieged by organized crime , which controls the land and forests. Thousands of people are uprooted at gunpoint, and there is absolute impunity not only in this poor and marginal area of northern Mexico, but in many other parts of the country as well.

The governor of Chihuahua, Maru Campos, condemned the killing of the priests at a press conference on Tuesday, although she did not mention the other crimes, which are under preliminary investigation, according to a statement from the state Attorney General’s Office. The fate of the four kidnap victims is still not known.

Ricardo Palma, the tour guide’s son, told EL PAÍS that he received a call on Monday from a colleague of his father’s explaining what had happened. “While they were eating at the hotel Mision Cerocahui an armed group burst in and took him and a group of tourists,” he explained via WhatsApp, as he boarded a Mexico-bound plane in Barcelona, where he is doing a medical residency at a hospital. “The tourism van he was driving was abandoned outside the hotel.”

Palma’s father was an experienced tour guide who had worked for over 40 years in the Sierra Tarahumara. He had worked for international agencies such as Grand Circle Travel, Caravan Tours, American Orient Express.

“We live under constant threats and harassment. But we had never reached this limit,” said Javier Avila, one of the main leaders of the Jesuit community that has been working in the Tarahumara mountains for decades. “This crime will never be understood, because it has no logic. It is the result of official obstinacy in the face of a very tragic reality. The entire country, not only the Tarahumara region, is cloaked in a gross and alarming impunity. It hurts a lot to say it, but it is a reality. There has been no one, in any six-year administration, who has said: “Enough is enough.”

Javier Campos Morales had been working in the areas for 34 years. He joined the Society of Jesus Society of Jesus in 1959, at the age of 16, and was ordained in 1972. A year later he began his mission in the Sierra Tarahumara. Joaquín César Mora joined the Jesuits in 1958, also at the age of 16. He was ordained a priest in 1971.

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A male lion in Hwange National Park, where a tour guide was killed. Hwange was also home to Cecil the lion.

Tour Guide Killed in Lion Attack Did Everything Right

There's little a person can do in the face of Africa's top predator, experts say.

The tour guide killed by a lion while on a walking safari in Zimbabwe 's Hwange National Park did everything right in responding to the attack, according to experts—but he still paid the ultimate price

Quinn Swales, 40, a professional guide, was leading a group of six tourists in the park—the former home of Cecil the lion —when they came upon a pride. The male lion got up and began approaching the tour group.

"As he had done numerous times in his career, Quinn immediately briefed his guests on what to expect and instructed them to get behind him and not move," Camp Hwange, a safari camp in the park, said in a Facebook statement announcing the death .

After Quinn and the group shouted and set off a “bear banger”—an instrument that makes a loud noise like a gunshot—the lion seemed to retreat, only to double back suddenly and attack Quinn. He died on site.

"The guide who lost his life did his job: Placing himself between tourists under his care and a source of danger," Luke Dollar , program director for National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative, says in an email.

Dollar says the park should review whether it was wise to place the guide in that vulnerable situation, particularly when there was a safer option of watching the animals from a vehicle.

However, he adds that "walking safaris themselves are generally and widely done safely and responsibly."

"I don't expect this will lead to a major change in whether walking safaris continue to be a common offering in safari experiences," he adds.

"What this incident will hopefully do, however, is serve as an important reminder that safety—in any endeavor—should always be of paramount concern."

Top Predator

Dollar adds that the male lion was doing what it evolved to do.

"Almost any organism around lions might be a potential prey item, and for people to think that they are an exception is folly," Dollar said in a previous interview following a fatal lion attack in South Africa in June .

"I would imagine that every other primate that co-exists with big cats is acutely aware of the position they hold relative to the top predators of the world." (Also see " California Death Prompts Questions About Lion Attacks .")

Dollar says danger arises when people allow themselves to be lulled into a false sense of security in the presence of lions or other carnivores.

"We don't have claws or big canines or size as an advantage," he says.

Respect the King of the Jungle

Dollar estimates that dozens, if not hundreds, of people are attacked by lions each year.

In the wild, old or sick lions may target people because they cannot catch their normal prey, and people are generally easier gets.

"If a person is standing next to an impala and a lion decides it's going to eat something, that impala is probably going to get away and that person is probably not." ( Learn more about big cats and their behaviors .)

That said, people should not be afraid to observe lions in the wild, Dollar said, but should know that they might be viewed as potential prey and to act accordingly.

"We need to remember that we call these animals the kings of the jungle for a reason," says Dollar. "We need to respect what they are and their natural behaviors."

With reporting by Mary Bates. Follow Christine Dell'Amore on Twitter and Google+ .  

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Family and friends of Jonathon Hussing carried balloons, wept and struggled to walk to the corner of MLK and Scott Street to release them.

That’s the intersection where Hussing was killed when the bike he was riding and a tour bus collided Thursday morning around 9.

The bike ended up underneath of the bus.

“He was a great man. There wasn't a situation where he wouldn't come forward and be like, yeah, I can be the guy to do that for you. I can. I'll be very, very outgoing,” said Jonathon Hussing’s brother, Leroy Hussing.

Hussing said his brother often walked around Covington and, on longer trips, took a bike.

That’s what he was doing when he was hit and killed.

The tour bus was a Cavelier Motorcoach taking a group made up mostly of older people on a tour that began in Mason City, Iowa.

Police are yet to release details about the crash or who was at fault.

Family and friends released balloons and remembered the man who had meant something to everyone who showed up at the intersection Friday evening.

“He loved to fish. He loved to go outdoors, loved being with all the kids, nieces and nephews, stayed with mom for a while. He was very family oriented, very loving,” Hussing said.

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ABUJA, Nigeria Dec. 10, 2010— -- A pair of American kayakers who escaped a crocodile attack that killed their famed guide are "devastated" by the death of Hendrik Coetzee .

Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic could only watch in horror as a crocodile snatched Coetzee, 35, from his kayak on Tuesday as the three men paddled on the Lukuga River in Congo.

"They beached their boats about 500 meters from the incident in a very remote area," Ciaran Donnelly of the International Rescue Committee told ABC News. "They found villagers who lent them a cell phone to call the IRC."

The IRC and another humanitarian organization working in the area Solidarites International dispatched teams to evacuate them. Both men are still in Congo meeting with local authorities, but are expected to return the United States soon.

"They're obviously devastated and in shock over what happened," said Donnelly. "The reaction has been normal for anyone in that situation, but they also are reacting with a degree of professionalism."

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