Nigerian Soccer Fan Runs Over Rival Team’s Fans; Haitian Activist Dies

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Nigerian Soccer Fan Runs Over Rival’s Fans Local police say a Manchester United football fan in Nigeria killed four people when he plowed his minibus into a group of Barcelona fans following his team’s loss, reports the BBC. There were also 10 people wounded in the tragedy. “The driver passed the crowd, then made a U-turn and ran into them,” a police spokesman told Reuters. United lost the European Champion League Final to Barcelona 2-0. Bitterness over the loss is a likely motive. “The man confessed to doing it on purpose. He now says he doesn’t know why he did it, but it was an intentional act,” a police spokeswoman told the BBC. European soccer teams are popular in the west African nation, and the league often snags Africa’s best players.

Haitian Activist Dies Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a Haitian Roman Catholic priest and activist, died in a Miami hospital Wednesday following a stroke. He was 62. After leaving his native Haiti for the United States, Father Jean-Juste founded the Haitian Refugee Center in the late 1970s. When Haitians were being deported from the country, he tried to make sure they at least were properly considered for asylum. After returning to Haiti in the 1990s, he became a supporter of former leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who is now exiled

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