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MORELIA — Officials say a 13-year-old boy has died from wounds received in a grenade attack at a Mexican Independence Day celebration, bringing the death toll to 8.

The Michoacan state Attorney General's Office says Angel Herrera died Saturday.

More than 100 people were wounded Monday when assailants lobbed two fragmentation grenades into the large crowd in the Michoacan capital of Morelia.

The government has offered a reward of nearly $1 million for information leading to capture of the perpetrators.

KABUL — NATO's top general in Afghanistan has ordered all international troops in the country to halt offensive operations today in honor of a U.N.-backed day of peace. Even the Taliban are pledging to lay down their weapons for a day.

The order follows an announcement from Afghan President Hamid Karzai that Afghan troops will observe Peace Day by not taking part in any offensive operations. He also called on armed militant groups to observe the day and "stop destroying their country."

NATO said its 48,000 troops will continue to guard personnel and military outposts but will not engage in offensive operations from midnight Saturday until midnight today.

NOUAKCHOTT — Mauritania's army on Saturday found the bodies of 12 soldiers who were attacked earlier this week in an ambush purportedly acknowledged by al-Qaida, a government spokesman said.

The men were found with their throats cut in the open desert about 20 miles north of the town of Tourine — the site of Monday's ambush — said the spokesman.

The government originally said the soldiers were shot fatally in the attack, but then reclassified them as missing when it didn't find the bodies.

Several Web sites known to be close to extremist Islamic movements published a statement attributed to al-Qaida's North Africa branch Wednesday in which the group admitted responsibility for the attack.

Militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria said Saturday that they had hit another oil pipeline, continuing a streak of attacks that have badly damaged the country's largest oil producer, Royal Dutch Shell.

On Friday, the Anglo-Dutch oil company said it was investigating the most recent claim of an attack on a major pipeline, but that it could not confirm it.

Violence has escalated in the Niger Delta in recent weeks as armed groups claiming to seek greater autonomy and wealth for the impoverished region have carried out an escalating series of attacks on oil installations and military facilities.

A group calling itself the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

A group spokesman has sent e-mail messages to reporters in recent days vowing that his group will carry out an "oil war."

Nigeria is Africa's top petroleum producer, but the attacks have stopped about 150,000 barrels per day of production and have reduced Nigeria's overall output to less than 2 million barrels per day.

Nigeria is the world's eighth-largest exporter of oil and the fourth-largest supplier to the United States.

VIENNA — Partial results of samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel show nothing to back up U.S. assertions that the target was a secret nuclear reactor, diplomats said Saturday.

The diplomats cautioned that the results from the International Atomic Energy Agency probe are preliminary because findings of more detailed environmental tests are still outstanding.

Washington says the Al Kibar site that Israel destroyed last year was a near-finished plutonium-producing reactor built with North Korean help, and that Damascus continues to hide linked facilities. Syria denies that.

According to intelligence given to the Vienna-based agency by the U.S., Israel and a third, unidentified country, the alleged reactor was not yet completed at the time of the Sept. 6, 2007, bombing. That meant no nuclear material would have been present.