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To date this year, Bishop Seitz said, border authorities have reported 853 migrant deaths on the U.S. border side alone.

According to Fides, the news agency of the Dicastery for Evangelization, the attack occurred the evening of Oct. 19 when militants looted and burned several homes before destroying a health center run by the Diocese of Butembo-Beni.

At least eight people were taken to the hospital with various injuries, he said, but the victims of the subsequent trauma are more than the injured and the dead. They extend to the students who escaped, officers and other first responders who saw the carnage, he said.

While the death toll of Ida is still being calculated, Louisiana has said the deaths of least a dozen people in senior housing or nursing homes have been attributed to Ida.

As India faces a massive surge in new infections and deaths caused by COVID-19, Pope Francis said praying for all those who have become sick, affected by the huge health emergency.