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- •SeaWorld Orlando closed its Mako roller coaster as a precaution following the Six Flags incident involving similar Bolliger & Mabillard designs.
- •After a fatal roller-coaster incident at Six Flags Over Georgia that also injured several people, Six Flags temporarily closed similar rides at parks across its network.

- •U.S. forces in Okinawa ordered a 48-hour pause with alcohol ban and a month-long midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew after the arrest.
- •After a Marine’s Oct 4 arrest in Anna Yagi’s killing, Rubio told Japan the US will fully cooperate and offered sincere condolences; a 30-day Okinawa troop curfew began Oct 9.