Happy Halloween!! but.......

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and at times in parts of New Zealand.

A 12-year-old boy has been shot and killed while celebrating Halloween in America.

The youngster was trick-or-treating with his family when he was gunned down in South Carolina.
They had approached a home at about 8.30pm local time and thought they heard fireworks, Sumter Police Chief Patty Patterson said.But a man was firing from inside the property and hit the boy.The youth's father and brother were also wounded by the gunfire.They were taken to hospital but their injuries were not life-threatening.A suspect has been taken into custody.Mrs Patterson has not released the man's name or the victim's details.

The police chief said she was in disbelief and did not know why the shooting occurred.Elsewhere, in Tijuana, authorities banned Halloween masks on teenagers and adults amid rumours of possible attacks in a city plagued by drug violence.Police spokesman Juan Mora said that older people wearing masks in public would be detained and could be fined up to 1,000 pesos ($79 or almost £50).Assailants in Tijuana on the Mexico-US border and close to San Diego, California, often wear ski and other masks to commit crimes. More than 500 people have been killed in the city year.Officials blame the violence on cartels fighting over lucrative smuggling routes.