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Police officers and members of the public walk to the scene where PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone were murdered one week ago, in Mottram on Sept. 25, 2012 in Manchester, England.

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A female police officer takes part in a minute of silence, during a memorial vigil at the scene where PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone were murdered one week ago, in pouring rain on Sept. 25 in Manchester, England.

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A police officer carries a lit candle and flowers during a memorial vigil at the scene where PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone were murdered one week ago, in Mottram on Sept. 25, 2012 in Manchester, England.

 Nearly 400 people including approximately 40 police officers walked in heavy rain from Hyde police station to the scene of the killings, for a vigil Tuesday morning in memory of two Manchester police officers murdered last week.  Dale Cregan, 29, appeared before Manchester Magistrates last week accused of four murders, including those of officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, killed on Sept. 18. Cregan is also being charged with the murders of two others. Full story on the BBC News.

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Mourners, colleagues pay their respects to two unarmed policewomen killed in England

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Daran Lin hugs the urn bearing the remains of his son, Jun Lin, during funeral services Thursday, July 26 in Montreal. Lin's dismembered torso was found on May 29 stuffed in a suitcase outside an apartment building, while other body parts were mailed to Ottawa and Vancouver. Luka Rocco Magnotta has pleaded not guilty to several charges in connection with Lin's death, including a count of first-degree murder.

The family of Jun Lin, a Chinese student who was murdered, laid his remains to rest Thursday, according to Reuters. Canadian authorities allege Luka Magnotta, a Canadian porn actor, killed Lin, dismembered his body and mailed parts to political offices and schools. Lin's father collapsed upon the urn containing his sons remains, and wailed for two minutes, according to the Toronto Sun. Zhi Gui Du, Lin's mother, who was not at the graveside because she was overcome by grief, said she has begun to feel sympathy for Magnotta. According to the Toronto Star:

"I shockingly discovered my other self, who has started to develop sympathy for this person," Du said.

"A troubled young person may bring negative impact to the society later on ... if we can show our care for them and offer them help when it's needed, I think we will be able to sustain a better society with love and harmony." 

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Daran Lin touches the urn bearing the remains of his son, Jun Lin, during funeral services Thursday, July 26 in Montreal.

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The urn containing the ashes of Jun Lin sits in a funeral home prior to the funeral services in Montreal, July 26, 2012. According to the police, Porn Actor Luka Magnotta murdered Lin, dismembered his body and posted a gory video of the crime online. Magnotta faces first degree murder charges.

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Related links:

• Canadian police: Body parts delivered to Vancouver schools
• Human head found in Magnotta cannibal killing case?
• Luka Magnotta, suspected dismemberment killer, pleads not guilty in Montreal

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Mourners hold a candlelight vigil to remember Shaima Alawadi outside her home in El Cajon, California March 28, 2012.

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Mourners hold a candlelight vigil to remember Shaima Alawadi outside her home in El Cajon, California March 28, 2012. Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi-American woman, died of her wounds on Saturday after being severely beaten in her home by a killer who left a threatening note that prompted police to investigate the murder as a possible hate crime.

Reuters reports: Scores of mourners gathered in a California mosque on Tuesday to pay respects to an Iraqi-American woman who died after being severely beaten in her home by a killer who left a threatening note that prompted police to investigate the murder as a possible hate crime.

Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother of five, was found unconscious in the dining room of her rented home in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon on Wednesday by her 17-year-old daughter, police said. She died of her wounds on Saturday. Full story.

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Onlookers watch as morgue workers remove the body of a man killed during a shooting in the Itinga neighborhood of Salvador, Brazil on Feb. 8. About one-third of Bahia state's 30,000 patrolling police went on strike last week. That led to a doubling of the murder rate in Salvador, the nation's third-largest city.

Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil have more than doubled since one-third of the 30,000 police in the state of Bahia walked off the job Jan. 31.

Though violence has tapered off a bit since more than 3,400 soldiers and federal police were sent in to patrol Salvador, tensions remained high in the city of 2.7 million people.

Initially strikers were asking for six points, including pay raises and bonuses, but media reports Sunday said they'd scaled back their demands to just two — bonuses and amnesty from future reprisals for having taken part in the strike.

Related links:

• Disgruntled police in Brazil threatening Carnival
• PhotoBlog: Standoff between striking police and soldiers in Salvador

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Morgue workers remove the body of a man killed during a shooting in Salvador, Brazil on Feb. 8.

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Peruvian shamans perform a ritual of spiritual punishment for Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot before his hearing before court at the Lurigancho prison in Lima on Jan. 6. The trial gets started in Lima for the Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot, accused of killing a young Peruvian woman in 2010 and who also is a suspect in the disappearance years earlier of an American woman in the Caribbean.

Joran van der Sloot has been in the news since 2005, when he became a suspect in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Exactly five years after Holloway disappeared, he allegedly killed Stephany Flores in Lima, Peru. His trial for the killing of Flores begins today.

AP reports:

Van der Sloot, 24, is charged with killing 21-year-old Stephany Flores in his Lima hotel room on May 30, 2010, after the two left a casino together in the day's wee hours.

The slaying happened five years to the day after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a 19-year-old from Alabama who was celebrating her high school graduation on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba and was seen leaving a nightclub with Van der Sloot. Her body has never been found.

Authorities say Van der Sloot confessed to killing Flores, claiming he became enraged after she discovered his connection to Holloway. Read the complete story.

Watch the video below for more information and footage of his confession to police.

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Joran Van der Sloot enters the courtroom at the Lurigancho prison for the trial against him over robbery and alleged assassination of Peruvian Stephanie Flores in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 6.

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The dead body of a man, wrapped in a blanket, is seen lying near the wall of a private school in the municipality of Ecatepec on the outskirts of Mexico City on Jan. 3, 2012. Neighbors notified the police when they saw the body on the street, according to local media.

The body was found outside a primary school named after William Shakespeare on the northern outskirts of the Mexican capital.

According to a report in El Sol de Toluca, the victim, who had yet to be identified, had gunshot wounds to his head and body. Police sources said that the killers had left a message signed La Familia. The body was taken to the Justice Center in San Cristobal for investigation.

Reuters reports that the drug violence that has raged across Mexico is creeping into its capital city, which had been seen as an oasis of relative peace for several years. Police reported more than 300 gangland killings in the greater Mexico City area in 2011.

La Familia, a bloodthirsty cartel that started in the central state of Michoacan, is now said to be a major player in the capital, alongside the widely-feared Zetas and a criminal cell called Mano con Ojos - or Hand With Eyes. Read more.

Previously on PhotoBlog:

• Trick-or-treaters encounter real-life crime scene in Ciudad Juarez
• Horrific scene where gunmen dumped 35 bodies on a busy street in Veracruz
• Blood on the streets of beachy Acapulco
• 45 dead in attack on casino in Northern Mexico
• Soldier, gunman reported dead after shootout
• Just another day and night of violence in Ciudad Juarez

Slideshow: Narco culture permeates Mexico, leaks across border

Mexico's drug war is also part of a drug culture with roots in music, movies and even religion.

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Afghan police keep watch outside the house of Jan Mohammad Khan, who was killed by armed gunmen during Sunday's attack, in Kabul on July 18. Khan was a top advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a member of the country's parliament in a residential district of Kabul. Khan was killed Sunday, just days after the president's brother was gunned down at home, officials said.

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Broken windows at the house of Jan Mohammad Khan in Kabul on July 18.

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The body of a Taliban insurgent being driven away from the house of Jan Mohammad Khan.

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Thousands of Hasidic men wait for a procession for the body of Leibby Kletzky, a murdered eight-year-old boy who went missing from the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn on July 13. After a two day search, Kletzky's dismembered body was found partially in a suitcase inside a dumpster and partially in a refrigerator in a nearby apartment. Police detectives have taken Levi Aron into custody in connection to the killing.

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Hasidic men wait for a procession for the body of Leibby Kletzky.

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Men weep while listening to the funeral of Leibby Kletzky outside a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York on July 13.

Related links:

• Boy's dismembered body found; man charged
• Timeline of Slain Brooklyn Boy's Disappearance
• Experts Differ on Age Kids Should Walk Alone

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Opelika police take a suspect into custody at Southern Union Community College on April 6 in Opelika, Ala. The unidentified man was arrested after he walked up to reporters and told them he was the person police were seeking in connection with a shooting on campus. The shooting at the college killed a 63-year-old woman, wounded two other women, ages 36 and 94, and injured a 4-year-old who was hit with flying glass.

OPELIKA, Ala. — Journalists covering a deadly shooting became part of the story when the man police say is the main suspect calmly walked up to them and told them he was the person authorities were after.

Thomas Franklin May, 34, was charged with capital murder and attempted murder and was being held without bond, Opelika Police Chief Tommy Mangham said.

He said Wednesday's parking lot shooting at a community college campus in eastern Alabama was related to a domestic problem and was preplanned.

One woman was killed and May's estranged wife and another woman were wounded, police said.

About three hours after the shooting, when city officers already had left campus, a man driving a white Jeep Liberty with the same tag number police had released as the suspect's pulled into the blood-splattered parking lot where the shootings happened and spoke to the news media.

Todd van Emst was taking photos for The Associated Press on the Southern Union Community College campus when May came up to him and asked to use his cell phone.

Van Emst said May gestured and said he "did all this."

"I said, 'Are you the shooter? He said, 'Yes.'" Continue reading.