Sharpshooter: Cop shoots himself in the leg

US - A New York City police officer who accidentally shot himself in the leg while holstering his weapon is in stable condition.

The police department said the officer was responding to a domestic dispute in Brooklyn on Saturday night. Police said the officer was inside a home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when his gun accidentally discharged as he was holstering his weapon. No one else was injured.

The officer was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Police said an arrest related to the domestic dispute was made at the scene.

Monk accused of raping teenager

Colombo: A monk at a temple in Sri Lanka is accused of raping a teenager.

The 15-year-old consulted the suspect for Ayurvedic treatment when she was  allegedly tranquilised and molested, according to a report in the Mirror. 

The girl's mother told police that she had accompanied her daughter to the monk to avail of the treatment.

However, she claimed that the monk had asked her to wait outside as he took the girl for treatment.

It was only when she her the screams of her daughter that she rushed in and discovered that she was molested.

The suspect is a monk at a temple in Medawachchiya in Anuradhapura District in the North Central Province.

He has been remaded to custody until the 27th of this month for more investigations.

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