Port Arthur massacre movie set for release next year and will focus on killer Martin Bryant’s life

A new movie centred on the life of Port Arthur mass murderer Martin Bryant has begun production in Victoria. The scripted feature film is entitled Nitram, which is Martin’s named spelt backwards and is being helmed by acclaimed Snowtown director Justin Kurzel. American actor Caleb Landry Jones is playing the role of the lone gunman … Read more

Mexican cops arrest alleged cartel member for Mormon massacre

Mexican authorities have captured a man wanted for his purported connection to the massacre of three Mormon mothers and their six children last year. The Attorney General’s Office announced that José Lara was arrested by security forces in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the bloody incident. Lara is accused of being … Read more

Battle of Tollense Valley 4,250 years ago was a massacre of 1,400 Bronze Age merchants 

Fresh analysis of Europe’s earliest known battle has thrown up the possibility the 1,400 people who died at the site, in Germany‘s Tollense Valley, were not warriors engaged in a brutal melee, but ambushed merchants who were ruthlessly slain.  Human remains at the site in North East Germany, near today’s border with Poland and 80 … Read more

Ten bodies are found in unmarked mass grave in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

At least ten bodies have been found in an unmarked mass grave at an Oklahoma cemetery where investigators are searching for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.  The discovery marks the third day of the search operation at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, where funeral home records show massacre victims are buried.  Ten … Read more

2017 Las Vegas massacre death toll rises from 58 to 60

Two women who died in the past year from injuries they suffered during the 2017 Las Vegas massacre have been added to the official death toll – bringing fatalities to 60 – on the shooting’s third anniversary. Clark County Sherrif Joe Lombardo revealed on Thursday that he officially increased the number of people killed in America’s … Read more

Pakistani schoolboy who survived a Taliban massacre is going to Oxford

As the Taliban death squad stalked through the school assembly hall, shooting boy after green-uniformed boy with chilling dispassion, Ahmad Nawaz slid to the floor and cowered under his chair. Lying face down with his hands clasped over his head, he held his breath as the clatter of gunfire drew ever closer. Then he could … Read more

British survivor of Christchurch mosque massacre speaks out

A British man who was worshipping inside a mosque in New Zealand when it was attacked by a white supremacist terrorist has told of how he cradled the body of a three-year-old victim in the aftermath of the shooting.  Nathan Smith, who lived in Dorset before moving to New Zealand in 2005, was inside the … Read more

2014 Taliban massacre survivor wins place at Oxford University

A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014  The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more

A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre wins place at Oxford University

A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014  The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more

Church massacre leaves five dead as police negotiate with captors in Johannesburg

Church hostage massacre in South Africa: Thirty gunmen storm place of worship and leave five dead after ‘feud between warring Christian religious factions’ The killings took place at International Pentecost Holiness Church in Zuurbekom It is believed the massacre happened amid a leadership battle at the church  Police scrambled to the scene at 3am local … Read more