NEWS FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18TH 2017

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Stories by Michael Foldvari, Olivia O'Malley & Patricia Petit Liang

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LOCAL
By Patricia Petit Liang

The Sureté du Québec is investigating the violent killings of two dogs in Montérégie.

According to CTV News, officers discovered the lifeless bodies of Yoshi and Tonka, who had gone missing four days earlier, inside of a ditch in Saint-Valérien-de-Milton on Sunday.

A resident in the nearby town of Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton told authorities that an SUV driver tried to steal their dog around the same time as this tragedy.

 

NATIONAL
By Olivia O’Malley

A fire in Milltown-Head of Bay d’Espoir, Newfoundland destroyed a high school, townhall and RCMP station on Tuesday.

According to CBC News, Donald Craig MacHaight of Morrisville is now facing three counts of intentional cause of damage by fire.

Nobody has been injured and building damages are currently being assessed.

  

INTERNATIONAL
By Michael Foldvari

A Nigerian military jet mistakenly bombed a camp of displaced people in the city of Rann, near the border of Camaroon this past Tuesday.

According to BBC News, the camp was mistakenly thought to belong to the Boko Haram terrorist group, who are also present in the area

52 civilians & aid volunteers were killed and more than 200 were injured as a result of the bombing