The three newest victims belonged to the identical mosque, in keeping with Tahir Gauba, a spokesperson for the Islamic Heart of New Mexico. Officers have been withholding the id of the person killed on Friday pending notification of subsequent of kin.

However Gauba mentioned he was killed shortly after attending the funeral for the 2 earlier victims.

Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, a planning director for the town of Espanola who immigrated from Pakistan in 2017, was shot useless on August 1 exterior his house complicated, lower than every week after Aftab Hussein, 41, from Albuquerque’s giant Afghan group, was discovered slain on July 26 close to the town’s worldwide district, police mentioned. Hussain additionally labored on the marketing campaign staff for US Consultant Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico.

Police mentioned they have been treating these two slayings, together with Friday’s killing, as linked to the November 7 homicide of 62-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi, additionally a Muslim from Afghanistan, who was shot to demise in a car parking zone exterior a halal grocery store and cafe.

“There are a number of issues in widespread with all 4 of the homicides,” metropolis police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos advised reporters on Sunday.

Requested whether or not investigators think about the killings to be hate crimes, Gallegos mentioned, “Hate is set by motive, and we don’t know that motive at this level.”

Gauba estimated there are 3,000 to five,000 Muslims residing in and round Albuquerque, accounting for about 85 % of all the state’s Islamic inhabitants.

New Mexico State Police, the FBI and the US Marshals Service are among the many companies aiding within the investigation.

— With extra enter from Reuters

Moscow and Kyiv blame one another for the newest strike on the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest nuclear energy website, which has been below Russian management because the early days of the warfare.

The preventing on Friday on the plant has prompted the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) to warn of “the very actual threat of a nuclear catastrophe”.

At a press convention in Tokyo, Guterres condemned such assaults with out saying both aspect was accountable.

“We assist the IAEA on their efforts in relation to create the circumstances of stabilisation of that plant,” he stated.

“Any assault to a nuclear plant is a suicidal factor. I hope that these assaults will finish, and on the similar time I hope that the IAEA will be capable to entry the plant.”

His feedback adopted a go to to Hiroshima over the weekend, the place Guterres gave a speech to mark the 77th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear bomb assault.

Within the Japanese metropolis on Saturday, he warned that “humanity is enjoying with a loaded gun” as crises with the potential for nuclear catastrophe proliferate worldwide, from Ukraine to the Center East and the Korean peninsula.

The Portuguese 73-year-old additionally delivered a stark warning in opposition to the horrors of atomic weapons every week in the past in New York at a key nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty convention, which he reiterated on Monday.

“We’re witnessing a radicalisation within the geopolitical scenario that makes the chance of a nuclear warfare once more one thing we can not fully neglect,” he stated.

When requested about China’s huge army workout routines round Taiwan, sparked by a go to final week to the self-ruled island by US Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Guterres stated the UN “abides by a decision of the Normal Meeting, the so-called One China coverage”.

“However all of us need that decision to correspond to a peaceable atmosphere,” he stated, calling for widespread sense and restraint to permit for an “extraordinarily vital” de-escalation.