12PM NEWS UPDATE: JANUARY 17, 2017

Hello, Paddy Kilmurray with a news update.

• Australian tourists have been caught up in a deadly massacre at a nightclub in Mexico. Patrons were forced to run for their lives as a gunman opened fire into the crowd. Five people were killed in the attack.
• An Australian mother and her three sons have been found atop a mountain in Japan after notifying a friend on Facebook they had become stranded following a massive downpour of snow.
• Pauline Hanson is pushing on with her controversial plan to ban burqas in public buildings, if her party wins the Queensland state election.
• Brisbane Bronco James Roberts is under fire for yet another off-field incident, this time he’s accused of assaulting a woman at a Gold Coast nightclub.
• A Melbourne jogger says she feared she was going to be killed, during a shocking kangaroo attack. The 54-year-old personal trainer was jogging when the “rogue roo” knocked her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her.
• A massive alligator has been caught on camera, taking a leisurely stroll in front of a group of tourists at a nature reserve in Florida.
• And Nick Kyrgios has sent a warning to his Australian Open rivals…making light work of Portugal’s Gasto Elias to claim his first round match in straight sets.

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