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An American man fatally stabbed himself with a pair of scissors in a Taiwan courtroom on Thursday during his sentencing on drug possession charges, raising questions over security failings. When a judge handed down a four-year prison sentence for smuggling poppy and marijuana seeds and for growing marijuana, Tyrel Martin Marhanka stabbed himself in the neck before bailiffs could stop him. PTI Photo/Representational Image The man, named as 41-year-old Tyrel Martin Marhanka, is thought to have hidden the dismantled scissors inside a magazine to get past a metal detecting door, Changhua district court said. The court vowed to beef up its security control by adding two X-ray scanners when it moves to a new building. There is not enough room for the scanners at stanley cup its curren stanley cup t facility, it said. When the judge handed down a four-year prison sentence for smuggling poppy and marijuana stanley cup seeds and for growing marijuana, Marhanka stabbed himself in the neck before bailiffs could stop him. He was rushed to a hospital but emergency treatment failed to revive him. We deeply regret that Tyrel Martin Marhanka killed himself during the sentencing, the court said in a statement. He was cooperative during the investigation and the trial. His attitude was mild and he did not show any signs that he would commit suicide. Marhanka was married to a Taiwanese woman with two children and had been living on the island for many years, according to the court. Read breaking new Vgsj Air strikes pound Yemen rebel positions as clashes rage
A suspected US missile strike destroyed a Taliban training camp in northwest Pakistan, killing 15 militants and Al-Qaeda operatives, as well as wounding another 50, security officials said on Friday. HT Image Two missiles fired by an unmanned drone pulverised the den in the tribal area of Kurram, one of seven such semi-autonomous regions near Pakistan s porous border with Afghanistan, where US troops are battling Taliban fighters. Fifteen militants were killed and 50 wounded, a senior security official said on condition of anonymity. He had initially said jordan at least seven militants, including foreigners -- a reference to Al-Qaeda -- were killed. No high-value targets were believed to have died, the official added. An adidas og other security official said most of the dead were Afghan Taliban. The training centre was run by local Taliban commander Fazal Saeed and training was underway at the time of the strike, the offic nike dunk ial added. Taliban militants sealed off the area and retrieved bodies from the rubble of the building after the strike late on Thursday. More than 30 such strikes have killed over 330 people since August 2008, shortly before key Washington ally President Asif Ali Zardari was elected. The US military as a rule does not confirm drone attacks but the armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency CIA operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy drones in the region. Thursday s attack was the fifth missile strike blamed on unmanned US aircraft