THAILAND: Three people were killed and six were injured when a shooter opened fire in a major shopping centre in the centre of Thailand’s capital Bangkok today afternoon before being apprehended, authorities said.

Police spokesman Archayon Kraithong told reporters that a suspect had been taken into custody after the shooting at the Siam Paragon Mall and the situation is now under control.

NIGER: At least 29 Nigerien soldiers have been killed by jihadists near the country’s border with Mali, Niger’s government said on Monday.

More than 100 extremists used home-made explosives to target the west African nation’s security forces who were deployed at the border area on a clearance operation, Niger Defence Minister Lieutenant General Salifou Mody said in a statement late on Monday. 

NIGERIA: An explosion and fire at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 15 people, including a pregnant woman, residents and a local environmental rights group reported today.

The blast happened on Monday in the Emohua district, where illegal refineries are common. Residents said that the death toll was likely to grow because many of the bodies were completely burned and dozens of people were injured.

GREENLAND: A group of 67 women from Greenland filed a lawsuit today to seek compensation from the Danish government over a campaign of involuntary birth control.

At least 4,500 women were force fitted with coils to curb birth rates in the in indigenous population. The practice is believed to have continued until at least 1975.

Greenland is now a semi-sovereign territory of Denmark but was a Danish colony until 1953.