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LONDON, Sept 15, 2023 (AFP) – UK police investigating the death of a 10-year-old girl said Friday they had charged her father, stepmother and uncle with murder after they returned to Britain from Pakistan. Sara Sharif’s body was discovered at the family’s home near Woking, southern England, on August 10. A post-mortem examination revealed she had sustained “multiple and extensive injuries” over a sustained period. Her relatives were arrested late on Wednesday at London’s Gatwick […]
DNIPRO, Ukraine (AFP) — A six-year-old girl has died from dehydration under the rubble of her destroyed home in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city council said Tuesday. Mariupol is surrounded by Russian forces, who have bombarded the port city despite promises of a ceasefire to allow civilians to be evacuated. It is not known how long the girl, named only as Tanya, had been under the ruins of her home before […]
(Eagle News)–The Quezon City government expressed condolences to the family of a 13-year-old girl who died after her house fell into a waterway recently. In a statement on Monday, the local government said also critically injured in the incident in Barangay Obrero were two other children and their grandmother, who are confined at the East Avenue Medical Center. According to the local government, based on initial investigation, the affected family was among 47 families recommended by […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian leader Joko Widodo declared a state of emergency Tuesday as coronavirus deaths in the world’s fourth most populous country jumped again, but he resisted calls for a nationwide lockdown. Widodo’s administration has been heavily criticized for not imposing lockdowns in major cities, including the capital Jakarta, a vast megalopolis home to about 30 million people where most of the country’s virus deaths have been reported. Indonesia’s leader offered few details of […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — An 11-year-old girl has become Indonesia’s youngest person to die after contracting the coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, as the country’s death toll from COVID-19 nearly tripled from a week ago. The girl, who was also suffering from dengue fever, was admitted to hospital on Madura Island off the coast of Java on March 19. She had a fever and and breathing difficulties, and died the following day. Tests only confirmed […]
(Eagle News)– A 13-year old girl from Quezon City is reported to be the youngest coronavirus case in the country, the Department of Health said on Sunday, March 15. The 13-year old is listed as patient no. 135 by the DOH. She tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) today, Sunday, March 15, the DOH said. She is among the 29 new confirmed coronavirus cases announced by the DOH on Sunday, March 15. Based on […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — Several thousand protesters rallied in Bucharest on Saturday after Romania’s police chief was fired over the murder of a 15-year-old girl who had made three emergency calls to report her own kidnapping and given clues to her whereabouts. Critics allege that officials failed to take the alert seriously and finally reacted too late to help save the teen, identified as Alexandra. Amid chants of “incompetence” and angry calls for the […]
FUJIAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — A Chinese railway worker narrowly saved a girl who was trying to kill herself by jumping in front of a moving train in southern China, state media reported on Saturday (May 13). State broadcaster CCTV released surveillance video which captured the moment on Wednesday (May 10) at Xianyou Railway Station in Fujian province. Both the girl and staff were not seriously injured, CCTV added.
