in the two - pronged offensive against IS and the Syrian Kurdish People 's Protection Units ( YPG ) militia . Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep , President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US - backed Kurdish fighters " with the same determination . " " We will make any kind of contribution to the work to clear Daesh ( IS ) from Syria , " Erdogan told thousands of flag - waving supporters in the city where a suicide bomber suspected of IS links blew himself up at a wedding party last weekend .
Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the company would conduct a " thorough investigation " of Yelchin 's accident . " It is premature to speculate on its cause at this time , " he added . Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Jane Kim said on Monday that investigators were aware of the recall issue with the Jeep and were looking at whether that played any role in the fatalitylife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. Yelchin , a 27-year - old Russian native , would be the first death reported to be linked to the defect . In 2014 , a U.S. study said nearly 100 people were killed and 2,000 injured annually from vehicles that rolled away between 2008 and 2011 .
Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday , killing one person . If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite , it would be the first recorded human fatalitylife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsdue to a falling space rock . According to local reports , a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking , damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings . Three other people were injured .
The average incident rate for the 28 EU countries is 0.0602 with a 95 % confidence Interval of .0257 to .09477 . The US rate is 0.078 is higher than the EU rate , but US and the average for EU countries are not statistically different . The average fatalitylife.die.narate for the 28 EU countries is 0.114 with a 95 % confidence Interval of -.0244 to .253 . The US rate is 0.089 is lower than the EU rate , but they are again not statistically significantly different . There were 55 % more casualties per capita from mass public shootings in EU than US from 2009 - 15
The bigger question is the one of causation that President Obama keeps pushing and the evidence on that can be found here and here . His claim on that is also clearly wrong . UPDATE : Politifact has discussion on fatalitylife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsrates from mass public shootings , where they rank the US as the fourth highest country . Their analysis looks at data from 2000 to 2014 , but it is clear that their analysis is flawed . They have a much broader definition of these attacks where they included cases where no one was killed .
Ankara said it had killed 25 Kurdish " terrorists " and insisted the army was doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties . But the Britain - based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 40 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling and air strikes on two areas held by pro - Kurdish forces in northern Syria , the first report of significant civilian casualties in Turkey 's operation . The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatalitylife.die.deathcausedbyviolenteventsin the two - pronged offensive against IS and the Syrian Kurdish People 's Protection Units ( YPG ) militia . Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep , President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US - backed Kurdish fighters " with the same determination . " " We will make any kind of contribution to the work to clear Daesh ( IS ) from Syria , " Erdogan told thousands of flag - waving supporters in the city where a suicide bomber suspected of IS links blew himself up at a wedding party last weekend .
Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the company would conduct a " thorough investigation " of Yelchin 's accident . " It is premature to speculate on its cause at this time , " he added . Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Jane Kim said on Monday that investigators were aware of the recall issue with the Jeep and were looking at whether that played any role in the fatalitylife.die.na. Yelchin , a 27-year - old Russian native , would be the first death reported to be linked to the defect . In 2014 , a U.S. study said nearly 100 people were killed and 2,000 injured annually from vehicles that rolled away between 2008 and 2011 .
Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday , killing one person . If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite , it would be the first recorded human fatalitylife.die.nadue to a falling space rock . According to local reports , a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking , damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings . Three other people were injured .