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Suspect Killed After Driving Into Crowd, Stabbing People At Ohio State University.

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An 18-year-old man of Somali descent rammed his car into a group of pedestrians and stabbed several people at Ohio State University in the United States on Monday morning.

 

After the suspect left his vehicle and began stabbing people with a butcher knife, a police officer shot him dead.

 

At least nine victims were hospitalized, with one in critical condition. According to a statement released by the university, “victim injuries include stab wounds, injury by motor vehicle and other injuries that are being evaluated.”

 

University officials had initially reported that an active shooter was present on campus and sent an emergency alert to all students and faculty advising them to “run, hide, fight.” However, it was later gathered that the attacker did not have a gun on his person.

 

Upon receiving the alert via text message, students and faculty barricaded themselves in rooms where they waited for the situation to be brought under control. When the suspect was killed and the campus secured, the advisory was lifted, allowing students and faculty to move freely about campus, though classes were cancelled for the remainder of the day.

 

Law enforcement officials have withheld the assailant’s identity but confirmed that he was an 18-year-old male of Somali descent. Investigators are trying to determine the motive of the attack.

 

When asked if the attack could be considered an act of terrorism, Columbus, Ohio Police Chief Kimberley Jacobs said, “We have to consider that it is that possibility.”

 

“We had an attack earlier this year with a man with a knife causing multiple injuries. So we’re always aware that that’s the potential. And we’re going to continue to look at that,” she added.

 

Federal law enforcement officials told ABC News that the suspect was a legal resident of the United States. He allegedly made a Facebook post lamenting recent attacks on Muslims.

 

Ohio State University’s Columbus campus is one of the largest universities in the country. Students had just returned to class on Monday after the Thanksgiving break.

Female student ‘barred over skirt length’ from university campus.

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A Ugandan student, Joaninne Nanyange, has written a long Facebook post detailing how she was stopped at the entrance to her faculty on Wednesday by two women, one apparently dressed in a police uniform.

She says the uniformed woman asked her to pull her skirt down as far as it would go:

I burst into laughter. Her request didn’t make sense. She insisted, quite seriously. I told her that was the farthest my skirt could go and there was no need to pull it.”

She was then told the skirt was too short and that she could not enter the Law Development Centre:

I was shocked. Yes. Shocked. Seeing the bewilderment on my face, the two women laboured to explain. Apparently, skirts like mine attract the boys and men that we study with and bar them from concentrating. So they could not be allowed!”

Ms Nanyange goes on to link the sexual harassment of women with a broader culture in the country of dictating what women can wear.

How can we be angry with boda boda men attacking and undressing women for wearing short things when we have institutions that we hold to higher levels of understanding and responsibility fostering cultures that say women are only as appropriate as men say they are?

She says men should be made responsible for controlling their sexual urges, if they really are as out of control as some in Uganda appear to believe:

I Work hard, and I manage to pay the millions of shillings required for LDC’s tuition. But I can’t access the campus to attend my classes because when ‘my brothers’ look at my knees and legs, they will get erections.”

Ms Nanyange has since been allowed to go into the LDC wearing a similar outfit, she says.