DIGEST

Skinheads attack crowd at rock concert

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said.

Dozens of people were left bloodied and dazed in the attack, television and news agencies reported, and state news channel Rossiya-24 said a 14-year-old girl was killed at the concert in Miass, 900 miles east of Moscow.

Fourteen ambulances were called to the scene, the channel said, citing witness accounts. The motive for the attack was not known, and authorities couldn't be reached for comment. The ITAR-Tass agency said local police had refused to comment.

Many of Russia's top rock acts were attending the "Tornado" rock festival, the agency said.

Russia has an ingrained neo-Nazi skinhead movement. Attacks on dark-skinned foreigners in Moscow and St. Petersburg have been relatively common in recent years.

The January 2009 murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova prompted a Kremlin crackdown on ultranationalists, who were blamed for the killings.

- Associated Press

N. Korean leader visits Harbin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited Harbin, in China's northeast, Sunday while on a secretive trip reportedly to drum up support for a succession plan for his youngest son, a news report said.

Reporters have followed a 35-vehicle motorcade - apparently used by the reclusive Kim - around several Chnese cities.

Kim, 68, toured a historic site commemorating his father's communist movement, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. Kim's father, Kim Il Sung, engaged in anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in Harbin during Japan's colonial occupation.

Kim was reportedly accompanied by his son, Kim Jong Un, believed to be in his 20s. Many North Korea-watchers predict the son will be appointed to a key party position at a ruling Workers' Party meeting early next month - the first such gathering in decades - as part of a succession process.

Yonhap said Kim would likely depart from Harbin later Sunday or early Monday.