SANAA, Yemen

Suicide bombers hit camp; first Cabinet meeting held

Two suicide bombers struck an army camp in central Yemen on Saturday, killing one soldier. Elsewhere, explosions rocked a southern port city and clashes erupted between suspected al-Qaida militants and security forces in the south, officials said.

The ongoing violence highlights challenges facing the country after a year of political turmoil resulted in a security vacuum and gave al-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula the chance to seize several towns in the south.

President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, during his inaugural speech, said his top priorities are to restructure the army and launch a national dialogue among various political factions.

On Saturday, Hadi held his first meeting with Cabinet members since becoming president and urged his ministers to accomplish their mission with “no apologies or excuses.”

Hadi’s meeting came hours after suspected al-Qaida attackers drove a truck into a Republican Guard camp in the town of Bayda, 75 miles south of the capital, Sanaa, early Saturday, a Yemeni security official said.

The official said the bombers deceived the guards by bringing in an ox that they said was a present for the camp commander. Once inside, they detonated their explosives.

The Defense Ministry in a statement Saturday said the operation was planned by al-Qaida fighters.

WARSAW, Poland

Six killed, scores injured when two trains collide

Two trains collided head-on in southern Poland on Saturday evening. The accident killed at least six people, injured about 60 and appears to be one of the worst rail disasters in the country in recent years, officials said.

Both trains were traveling on the same track but toward each other and hit head-on, Andrzej Pawlowski, a member of the board of the state railway company PKP, told a TV station.

He said one of the trains, traveling south from Warsaw to Krakow, should not have been on the track, but it wasn’t immediately clear how the train ended up on the track.

MILWAUKEE

Victim’s sister among those protesting Dahmer tour

The sister of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s 17 victims says organizers of a walking tour of the serial killer’s haunts are “just as evil” as Dahmer himself.

Janie Hagen joined others in protesting the first of the tours Saturday.

Hagen’s 25-year-old brother Richard Guerrero disappeared in 1988 and was one of the first young men Dahmer is known to have murdered.

Hagen criticized the new walking tour as an attempt to make money by turning her brother’s murder into macabre entertainment. She was one of about 20 protesters who followed the first tour group of four customers. Protesters chanted, “Stop the tour,” but generally kept their distance.

Organizer Bam Media and Marketing calls the tour a legitimate exploration of criminal history and says there are no plans to cancel.

WARREN, Ohio

Two adults, two children killed in fast-moving fire

A man, woman and two girls died Saturday in a house fire in northeast Ohio, fire officials said.

Warren fire Chief Ken Nussle told the Tribune Chronicle that one of the first 911 calls came from a woman inside the house. Flames had engulfed the two-story house by the time firefighters arrived around 3:30 a.m.

No one was able to escape the wood-frame home, Assistant Fire Chief Dan Suttles said.

Nussle said firefighters had arrived about two or three minutes after receiving the 911 call. He suspects high winds may have caused the flames to spread quickly.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The state fire marshal’s office said investigators didn’t find smoke alarms in the home.

TEMPE, Ariz.

Gang members suspected in shootout at crowded club

Police made one arrest and were looking for two other suspects after a shootout amid a large crowd outside an Arizona nightclub left more than a dozen people wounded. The shooting set off a chaotic scene as the injured screamed for help and hundreds tried to flee.

The number of people confirmed to have been wounded in the late-Friday shooting in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe rose to 14 after a person went to a hospital Saturday with a gunshot wound to the foot, police spokesman Lt. Mike Horn said.

None of the wounded had life-threatening injuries.

The man in custody is one of three who opened fire at one another after they began arguing as a crowd of at least 250 people lined up outside The Clubhouse Music Venue for a hip-hop show late Friday, Horn said.

Horn said all three men are believed to be affiliated with Phoenix-area gangs.