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Congo says at least 129 died during attempted jailbreak

Congo says at least 129 died during attempted jailbreak

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An attempted jailbreak in Congo’s main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment showed that 24 inmates were shot dead by “warning” gunshots as they tried to escape from the overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa early Monday, Congolese Interior Minister Jacquemin Shabani said on the social platform X. “There are also 59 injured people taken into care by the government, as well as some cases of women raped,” he said, adding that order has been restored at the prison, part of which was burned in the attack. Makala, Congo’s largest penitentiary with a capacity for 1,500 people, holds over 12,000 inmates, most of whom are awaiting trial, Amnesty International said in its latest country report. The facility has recorded previous jailbreaks, including in 2017 when an attack by a religious sect freed dozens. Gunfire inside the prison started around midnight on Sunday into Monday morning, residents said. A senior government official earlier said only two deaths were confirmed during …

The Gaza physiotherapist: My house was bombed – and my baby son and beloved husband died | World news

The Gaza physiotherapist: My house was bombed – and my baby son and beloved husband died | World news

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Suha Nasser. Composite: undefined/Guardian Design; Supplied image Suha Nasser, 27, is a physiotherapist from Jabalia. She was at home with her husband, baby and 31 relatives who were sheltering there with them when the street, including their house, was bombed. What was your life like before 7 October?I am from north Gaza, from Jabalia. I met my husband Mohammed at university in 2018 and was immediately attracted to his self-confidence. On top of that, he was kind, loving, supportive and always joking around. We got married in 2019 and I couldn’t have been happier, but what followed was our long struggle to start a family. We travelled to Egypt in May 2022, originally for a summer holiday, but found that the cost of fertility treatment in Cairo was much lower. In the end we spent four months there. Two weeks after the embryo transfer we had to make the journey back across the border to Gaza, which took two full days, across often dangerous checkpoints. I was exhausted and feared for my unborn child. In …

My husband died, and now I can’t access our savings or sell our house | Money

My husband died, and now I can’t access our savings or sell our house | Money

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My husband died in May 2022 at the age of 52, leaving me and our three children. I applied for probate over a year ago but, even though I have complained, it has still not been granted. I feel in total despair at the Kafkaesque situation I am in. Whilst, thankfully, we have capital to live on (our bank transferred our joint accounts into my name), I’m not able to access and organise other savings, or sell our house, which I want to do before our fixed-rate mortgage ends. We are British, his will was written in the UK, and it straightforwardly left everything to me. But he died in Switzerland, where he was working as a diplomat with the UK mission when his cancer was diagnosed. Following his death, I had to spend a number of months dealing with the Swiss authorities, including securing the release of his will [which had to be handed in]. In March 2023, I applied by post for probate [in the UK] using a certified copy of the will, …

Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon | Devon

Belinda Lee: actor who died in 1961 car crash commemorated in Devon | Devon

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She was regarded as Britain’s answer to Sophia Loren and Brigitte Bardot, leading a glamorous and sometimes scandalous life in Italy and the US. This weekend Belinda Lee, who died in a car crash in California in 1961 aged 25, is being celebrated in her home town, the rather less glitzy Devon seaside resort of Budleigh Salterton. Lee’s plaque. Photograph: Michael Downes Lee, the daughter of a hotel owner and florist, left the town – dismissed in a Noël Coward play as a place of potted palms with a damp golf course – in search of fame and fortune. She found it in London, continental Europe and Hollywood but was also saddled with a degree of notoriety over events in her private life, such as having relationship with a married aristocrat. On Saturday, the date of her birth, film academics, local museum leaders and Budleigh Salterton residents who remember “Billie”, as she was known in the town, will come together to unveil a blue plaque in her memory near where she lived. A hotel will …

First human case of H5N2 bird flu died from multiple factors: WHO

First human case of H5N2 bird flu died from multiple factors: WHO

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GENEVA: A man infected with H5N2 bird flu, the first confirmed human infection with the strain, died from multiple factors, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday (Jun 7), adding that investigations were ongoing. The WHO announced on Wednesday that the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with H5N2 avian influenza virus had been reported from Mexico. Mexico’s health ministry said the 59-year-old man had “a history of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes (and) long-standing systemic arterial hypertension”. He had been bedridden for three weeks prior to the onset of acute symptoms, developing fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, nausea and general malaise on Apr 17. The man was taken to hospital in Mexico City on Apr 24 and died later that day. “The death is a multi-factorial death, not a death attributable to H5N2,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a media briefing in Geneva on Friday. “The patient came to the hospital after weeks of multi-factorial background of multi other diseases.” His body was subsequently routinely tested for flu and other viruses, and H5N2 …

Bronson Battersby: Boy, 2, found dead next to father’s body died of dehydration, coroner rules | UK News

Bronson Battersby: Boy, 2, found dead next to father’s body died of dehydration, coroner rules | UK News

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A two-year-old boy found dead next to the body of his father died of dehydration, a coroner has ruled. Bronson Battersby was discovered dead between the legs of Kenneth Battersby at their home in Skegness, Lincolnshire, in January. An inquest into the toddler’s death was told he “appeared to be quite malnourished” when he was found. A brief hearing at Greater Lincolnshire Coroner’s Court on Thursday was told that the pair’s bodies were discovered after a neighbour called police on the afternoon of 9 January. Bronson’s body was formally identified by a detective sergeant on 15 January, three days after a post-mortem examination carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary which confirmed his cause of death as dehydration. Image: Bronson Battersby with mum Sarah Piesse Claire Rimmer, a detective inspector of Lincolnshire’s eastern protecting vulnerable persons unit, also gave evidence to the hearing, detailing the circumstances in which Bronson’s body was found. Ms Rimmer said Bronson lived with his father, who had separated from the toddler’s mother, in a basement flat in Prince Alfred Avenue. The …

Man died hours before partner gave birth to their daughter | UK News

Man died hours before partner gave birth to their daughter | UK News

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A heavily pregnant woman tried to wake up her 40-year-old partner before going to hospital to give birth – only to find he had died after doctors misread an abnormal heart scan, an inquest has been told. Rebecca Moss, from Stretford, Greater Manchester, said “wake up, it’s baby day” to Thomas Gibson as she attempted to perform emergency first aid, before an ambulance arrived and he was pronounced dead, Stockport Coroner’s Court heard. Hours later, Ms Moss gave birth to their daughter Harper. She told the inquest into his death that she woke up around 5.15am on 7 June last year, the date of her elective Caesarean section, and went downstairs. Ms Moss said her partner was asleep on the couch. “I was trying to cheer him up and was saying ‘wake up, it’s baby day’, she told the hearing. “Tom didn’t respond, so I went over to the couch to give him a kiss. He was lying in his usual sleeping position. When I touched him, he was cold and stiff. He wouldn’t wake …

‘I feel like my sister died’: inside the shocking TikTok dance cult | Documentary

‘I feel like my sister died’: inside the shocking TikTok dance cult | Documentary

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Since they were young girls, Miranda and Melanie Wilking danced together. The sisters, two years apart, grew up exceptionally close in suburban Detroit, dancing in their basement, in competitions and eventually in pursuit of a professional career. When Miranda graduated high school and moved to Los Angeles to chase the dream, Melanie followed as soon as she could. The duo, who looked nearly identical – long brown hair, bright blue eyes, sharp features, deep tans and lithe physiques – found modest work auditioning together, but greater success online. By this point, in the late 2010s, TikTok was on the rise; short, peppy dance videos to a front-facing camera were the fastest avenue to a following, and thus a living, via sponsorships. Miranda and Melanie started an account together as the Wilking Sisters; by 2020, they had over 3 million followers on the platform. But in 2021, the sisters suddenly stopped posting new videos together, as things fell apart behind the scenes. Through her boyfriend James “BDash” Derrick, a dancer well-known for the LA-based street-style krump, …

‘People have died on the waiting lists’: South Africa’s housing crisis casts a shadow over election | Global development

‘People have died on the waiting lists’: South Africa’s housing crisis casts a shadow over election | Global development

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A picture of Nelson Mandela watches over the dimly lit room where Maggie Mothemba has lived for six years. “He’s like my father,” says the 57-year-old, who remembers the day in April 1994 that she voted for Mandela’s African National Congress in South Africa’s first democratic election. She was then “full of hope” to be on the list for a government-subsidised house to raise her two children – a key ANC’ election promise. But Mothemba is still waiting, along with 2.5 million households languishing in a housing crisis. In 2017, facing eviction from a private rental , she moved into a derelict hospital in Woodstock, a Cape Town neighbourhood, squatted by people protesting the slow pace of affordable housing development. Maggie Mothemba, 57, moved into Cissie Gool House six years ago. She lives in a small room across from the one in which her adult daughter lives. Photograph: Julie Bourdin While the government has accommodated almost 5 million households in 30 years, delivery has slowed drastically over the past decade. As South Africa holds a …