Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 7, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday free press around Canada service expanded Vancouver Canadian airlines International is expanding service to its most lucrative Desti in a bid to improve its financial the Calgary based Carrier began thursday by doubling direct flights on its Vancouver Nagoya run to four a in service will be increased to five weekly clean air sought Ottawa environment min ister Sergio March wants nation Al standards to curb Auto but he Doest want them to be As Tough As those in British in his first i depth interview since assuming his new Porto Marchi said his task As environment minister is to protect Public three stabbed Vancouver three people were fatally stabbed yesterday in an Earl morning knife fight at an Eastside Karaoke two bodies were found inside the Tulip the third was found in a Gutter boy shoots Friend an eighty Earold boy was accidentally killed by his seven Earold Friend on Good Friday when the two were play ing with a ramp the boy was visiting his school chum when he was shot at about 3 with the 12gauge said Ian girls a hero Toronto a Foury Earold girl was Given an award of Merit Friday for saving her mothers life by calling Susanna King kept Calm and made the emergency Call after her Mother Beverley King suffered an epileptic seizure last compiled from Canadian press around the world standoff Hopes Rise a officials allowed two people yesterday to leave the compound where militant freemen have been holed up in a standoff with the and the attorney for Mon Tana said her Hopes for a peace Ful settlement have grown stronger in the last two in her first news conference since she announced indictments against members of the freemen As the siege began two weeks attorney Sherry Scheel Matteucci said she was very optimistic that we will be Able to resolve this without any serious disease kills in Italy Italy a a Man has died of Creutzfeldt Jacob which has been linked to mad cow health officials said the unidentified died this week after five months in the Borgo Roma Hospital in the Northern City of said Massimo regional health Pope leads easter Vatican City Reuters Pope John Paul led the worlds roman catholics into easter last asking them not to be afraid of the message of the risen Jesus let no one be afraid of the Light of his gospel is the Light which does not bring death but which develops and brings to full maturity whatever is Good and Beautiful in every human he said in his Brown hailed Dover air Force a a sorrowful presi Dent Bill Clinton yesterday hailed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 32 compatriots who died in a plane crash in saying they represented whats Best about Canada world Section Patrick Flynn 6977294 d11 gunman plotted escape by Jill Louis Canadian press a Man who gunned Down nine people and shot himself had plotted a plan to exact revenge on his estranged wife but he did it initially plan to kill police said there was certainly no Indica Tion that he planned to come commit the murders and then kill ramp Doug Hartl told a news Mark Chahal drove to Kelowna from the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby and then drove a rental car North to he rented a hotel room under an assumed name and drove to his wife parents where in three to four minutes he murdered a their six children and killer of 9 didst intend suicide at first police its fairly Safe to assume he planned to come up commit the murders and leave the Hartl Chahal returned to his hotel room and shot himself in the head with a one of two handguns he used in the one of his victims was his wife Balwinder Kaul who was to be married her Husban Tobe was in route from Toronto when he was notified of the what drove him to choose the Day before a family wedding is something Only known to Hartl certainly the motive were is that he chose that time to take revenge on the entire family As Well As his sex Chahal had threatened his wife in Burnaby before she left and moved Home to Vernon to live with her but the family apparently had no warning of his plans for police the gunman had no criminal record and the weapons were All registered to the shooting Shook the Placid Okanagan lumber town of where the Gakhal family was Well the killers fathering Karnail Singh had worked at a local Sawmill since the 1970s and was prominent in the sikh Community of about 150 the estranged Raj War Kaur had complained to police about his on the important sikh holy Day of the anniversary of the formation of the five symbols of family members numb with Shock gathered at the Gakhal yellow police tape encircled the property and a Pool of dried blood marked the driveway where Gakhal was Cut Down while Wash ing his i think this is the biggest tragedy in the history of the sikh Community said Ajit a member of the sikh Temple com which was making plans to help the an ramp victim assistance team was at the Gakhal Home As rela Tives visited the team coordinator Richard Wil Ford said residents were honour ing the shattered family by hanging White wreaths on their White is the Colour of the sikh Community when they said two volunteers spent the night in Hospital with six Earold jus Tine Kaur shot in both legs and left an Gurmail Kaur and jus Tine Kaur Saran were wounded but Are expected to two other children saw the horror but were it is the second worst murder suicide in Canadian behind the 1989 Montreal massacre when Marc Lepine killed 14 women and then shot blowing its top the so Friere Hills Volcano in Montserrat shoots tons of Lea Grey Ash hundreds of metres into the air yes blanketing the Southern half of this Caribbean including the about 5 000 residents were evacuated to the North of the Island truck kills seven illegal immigrants suspected victims associated press korean troops reenter Buffer zone Reuters North korean soldiers entered the Buffer zone dividing the two Korea for the second time in two Days hours after South Korea president ordered an Iron tight about 260 soldiers entered the Panmunjom Border crossing Point within the Buffer zone in a Convoy of nine trucks yesterday a Seoul defence ministry spokesman the carrying four rifles and five stayed in the highly Sensi Tive area for about three hours before they did nothing while they were with in the the defence spokesman we regard it As just a late 120 North korean soldiers with heavy weapons marched into the zone in violation of the truce agreement in Force since the 195053 korean they stayed two South korean president Kim Youngsam said the first incursion marked a danger Ous escalation of Pyongyang Provo a a North korean newspaper accused the South of preparing an the newspaper was on the eve of As and South korean forces went on the highest Alert in 15 Kim summoned Security chiefs and ministers Over Pyongyang decision to withdraw from the armistice As North Korea has recently overtly threatened we should have Iron tight a presidential spokesman quoted Kim As telling the under the truce Only 35 military police from each Side Are allowed to enter the Security where Only Side arms Are a South korean government statement said the Security meeting discussed a response to the North korean announced to give up its duties in the Buffer zone under the armistice a stolen truck crammed with suspected illegal Immi Grants overturned on a Rural Road while being followed by Border patrol agents killing seven men and injuring 18 the crash happened about when the trucks Driver lost control of the truck on a Hilly Road and it overturned in a crushing its when we pulled we had people All Over the said Riverside county fire Tom we had the truck upside one survivor was flown to a Hospital with serious head injuries the extent of the oth ers injuries was not immediately firefighters found one Man with a leg injury in a nearby Avocado the dead and injured were All men Between the Ages of 20 and Drayer the Driver sped up after being followed by the agents for about 20 the agents were not chasing the truck and did not Flash lights or sound a said Cali fornia Highway patrol officer Ralph mar it want immediately Clear if the Driver was among those killed or whether he knew the Border patrol agents were behind the Accident happened less than a week after a truck filled with illegal immigrants was chased from the Temecula area Over 130 Kilometres to South Al Monte in los Angeles the Chase ended with the videotaped beating of two illegal immigrants by River Side county sheriffs teenager who confessed May not have killed tourist up photo mentally disabled Shoup cannot consistently be associated press Daytona a newspaper reported yester Day that a teenager who police said confessed to killing an Ontario tourist last month actually did not commit the Mark of was shot near the Beach after talk ing to his Mother on a pay was a College student vis iting Florida on Spring police charged Donald Shoup with first degree murder on March the Day after Fyke was the Daytona Beach news Jour Nal reported that authorities now believe a 17yearold Florida youth instead is the killer and expect to make an arrest within the the newspaper attributed the information to several unidentified the delay in the arrest is procedural involving a grand jury is scheduled to meet on wednesday to take up Fykes 4 Donald Shoup said his son is mentally disabled and attended school for the disabled until he dropped out when he was a 1992 mental health evaluation by the Florida department of health and rehabilitative services found the teen has considerable difficulty when required to respond verbally to does not always accurately relate previous experiences and often exaggerates the truth and cannot consistently be John an investigator for the state went to Belleville two weeks ago to inter View friends of Fykes who had witnessed the one of Che was shown a photograph of Shoup and said he was not the person who shot Fyke was with a party of about 25 Young mostly from Nicholson Catholic when he was shot dead outside a Tele phone he had finished talking to his Fyke shot on Holiday Mother according to class he was shot in an attempted the new journal said three other Florida teens May also be ;