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A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 16 people and wounded six on Friday, Egyptian security officials have said.

Police were looking for two young men who carried out the attack because they were previously not allowed to enter, state news agency MENA reported.

A statement posted on the interior ministry’s Facebook page said a preliminary investigation showed the attack happened after a dispute between the staff and some other people, who then threw Molotov cocktails at the entrance.

Security officials earlier said the attacker was an employee who had been fired from the restaurant in the Agouza area in the centre of the Egyptian capital.

  Guardian

Many years ago I read a novel whose premise was that violence is a virus. I don't recall the title or author, but while attempting to search for possibilities, I see that's no longer a novel idea. It seems to be the subject of a number of books and movies. Not only that, but it seems it's actually being discussed as a health issue.

One charity in the UK has been treating violence as a health issue since it launched the same year as the riots. It's called Chaos Theory, and uses a model of violence prevention developed on the streets of the ultimate gun and gang state, Chicago. The model is the brainchild of epidemiologist Gary Slutkin who had worked for a decade in Africa on infectious diseases before developing a theory that violence worked in a similar manner. He founded Cure Violence, which aimed to interrupt incidents of violent crime before they spread, exactly as one might control a virus.

  Open Democracy

The novel I read treated it as as true virus that could be physically passed (rather than mentally, culturally or emotionally), so that's a bit different, but if violence can be described as a virus, it's pandemic these days.

The rampage that claimed at least 14 lives in San Bernardino, Calif., [wasn't Wednesday's] first mass shooting. Here’s news you probably missed: A gunman in Savannah, Ga., shot four people early Wednesday, killing a woman and injuring three men.

Police haven’t arrested a suspect, said Eunicia Baker, spokesperson for the Savannah Chatham Police Department. They also haven’t released the names of the victims. The local media barely acknowledged the murder: One local television station covered it in three paragraphs.

And the world spun on.

  WaPo

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.