The government of North Korea has executed eighty people by firing squad said a report from South Korea about the highly secretive country. The eighty were executed for viewing foreign films.

A newspaper from South Korea, JoongAng Ilbo, reported the public executions were coordinated for effect and took place in seven different cities across the country at the beginning of November.

In one of the cases, local authorities detained more than 10,000 people of which some were children, and forced them to view the executions, said the newspaper report.

Those executed had been found guilty by the government of just minor misdemeanors, which included watching television programs from South Korea on videos or for having a Bible.

Sources for the South Korean paper said that witnesses viewed eight people who had been tied to stakes at the Shinpoong Stadium in the province of Kandwon. The eight had sacks put over each of their heads and were then executed by soldiers who used machine guns.

One source said the people in North Korea that saw the eight executed said afterwards that their bodies had been so riddled with bullets it was hard to recognize them.

Friends and relatives of each of the victims were sent, said sources, to different prison camps. This is a tactic of the government of North Korea to dissuade people from breaking their laws.

One analyst said that reports to the public about the executions would have a big effect on the rest of the population. He said survival was the only thing people they wanted and that breaking the law was something they could not dare do now.

The executions of dozens might be a signal of a wider crackdown on the possible hints of discontent within the population.

This latest report, said on think tank in Washington, claims Kim survived a 2012 assassination attempt and his personal security increased dramatically since the attempt took place.

That report echoes what sources from South Korea intelligence stated back in March that a small faction inside the army in North Korea were involved in the assassination attempt in November of 2012.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 caused the deaths of 85 people in the central region of the Philippines. The quake toppled buildings, knocked over historic churches and sent residents running terrified into deadly stampedes.

Panic followed as people started filling the streets following the 8:12 a.m. quake. The quake was centered nearly 20 miles below Carmen Town, which is on Bohol Island, where a number of buildings were destroyed, roads broken up and bridges became impassable or collapsed.

Cebu, one of the most densely populated cities also was hit with extensive damage. The city is located on the opposite side of a narrow strait from Bohol. People were killed when a market roof and fish port fell on them.

In a gym in Cebu, a stampede was set off by the quake. People make lines there to receive cash assistance but the stampede killed five and injured at least eight others.

In a city nearby, 18 were injured when a mad scramble to the door of building that was shaking ensued.

Police reported in Bohol that 69 deaths came from there, where the quake shook close to the town of Carmen. In Cebu, 15 deaths have been confirmed and rescuers were searching for those they believe are alive but trapped.

The quake was centered in an area inland and did not cause any tsunami.

Schools and offices were closed due to a national holiday, which could have helped save lives.

This quake was also deeper in the ground than last year’s 6.9 magnitude quake that hit in the waters near Negros Island.

One witness said the quake took place when she was in her room and it sounded as if a huge truck was approaching as the rumbling noise grew louder and louder as the rolling, got closer.

She ran outside and cold see the concrete electric poles swaying and said the entire shaking lasted at least 20 seconds.

Islamist gunmen are suspected to be behind the attack at a college in Nigeria’s northeast that killed as many as 50 students.

The students were shot and killed while they slept inside their dorms at the Yobe State College of Agriculture. Nigeria’s northeast is in a state of emergency amidst an insurgency by Islamists from the Boko Haram group.

The Boko Haram is attempting to overthrow the government in Nigeria to form an Islamic state and many attacks have been launched at different schools.

Casualties from Saturday’s attack vary. However, one local politician told reporters that more than 50 students were shot and killed. The Nigerian politician said the dead bodies filled two vans.

Another witness was quoted by a news agency as saying that 40 bodies were at the hospital, most of which were young men thought to be students.

The provost of the college said that the death toll could pass the 50 mark, adding that the local authorities were still collecting dead bodies and that over 1,000 students fled campus.

The gunmen, after shooting the students, set fire to some of the classrooms at the school, said a spokesperson for the military. The school is located in the rural district of Gujba,

This past May, Goodluck Jonathan, the President of Nigeria ordered troops to attack Boko Haram and on May 14, he declared a state of emergency for the country’s northeast.

Many of the militants from Boko Harem left their locations in the country’s northeast after that military action and violence dropped initially, but revenge attacks followed quickly.

Boko Haram, in June, attacked schools twice in the area. In one, nine children died when a school was attacked near Maiduguri, and 13 teachers and students died in a Damaturu school.

In July, in the state of Yobe, Islamists attacked the dormitories of a school and killed 42 people with explosives and guns.