SRINAGAR: An unidentified body of a man was recovered in Sonamarg area of central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday
Quoting an official, KNO reported that police received information from local residents that a body was lying near Sindh river behind imperial resorts Sonamarg.
He said upon receiving the information, a team from the Sonamarg police station immediately rushed to the spot and recovered the body. Police have registered a case under relevant sections of the law and have started further investigation.
SRINAGAR: The body of a teenage boy, who was missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found dead in Rajouri town on Wednesday while police have started investigation into the matter.
Aqib Chowdhary (18) son of Mohammad Shabir resident of Peeri, at present Bela colony Rajouri, went missing on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Police said that some people moving over Bela bridge saw a body lying underneath after which they informed police and a team from Rajouri city police post as well as from Rajouri police station reached at the spot and took body into possession.
The body was taken to GMC Associated Hospital Rajouri.
Police said that inquest proceedings and investigation into the matter have been started. (KNO)
Hyderabad: Sensation prevailed in the Tappachabutra area late Tuesday night after a person was shot dead by his rivals. Police suspect that old enmity was behind the gruesome crime.
The incident took place at Topkhana near Shabab Hotel in Karwan after a group of assailants identified as Kranti and others suddenly started firing at 26-year-old Akash Singh, also known as Chotu, resulting in instant death.
During the incident, the attackers fired multiple shots at Akash Singh and fled from the crime scene. On receiving information, a team of police, along with the CLUES team, reached the spot. It is suspected that homemade weapons might have been used in the crime.
As per the preliminary investigation by the police, Akash Singh, aka Chotu, had earlier attacked his relative Kranti, upon which an attempt to murder was registered against him, and the same is pending for trial before the court.
On Tuesday night, Kranti contacted a common friend, Imran, a resident of the Topekhana area in Karwan, to facilitate a compromise with Akash Singh. Later, Imran called Akash to his residence, and meanwhile, Kranti and his associates also reached there.
Under the pretext of compromise, Kranti suddenly took out a weapon and fired multiple rounds at Akash Singh, and during this, he died on the spot. Later, the assailants fled from the scene.
“We have gathered information that there were multiple shots fired at the deceased, and we are investigating from all angles,” said DCP South West Zone, Kiran Khare. He said the dead body has been shifted to Osmania General Hospital mortuary for conducting postmortem.
Later, additional forces reached the spot, and the mob was dispersed.
SRINAGAR: A car bearing registration number JK18B 3678 rolled down into a deep gorge at Maroog Ramban. Rescue operation underway in presence of Ramban police, SDRF and civil QRT.
— Deputy Commissioner, Ramban (@dcramban) April 4, 2023
Thus far, a single body has been retrieved from the scene of the accident. The individual has been identified as Sarfaraz Ahmad Bhat, the son of Abdul Jabbar Bhat and a resident of Paniwah Kulgam. He is survived by his wife and son, and was employed by the Indian Air force. He was en route to Kulgam from Delhi in order to celebrate Eid with his family.
William Brennan, an attorney for McGrath’s wife, Laura Bruner, also confirmed the death and said she was “absolutely distraught.”
According to an email earlier from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Shayne Buchwald in Maryland, McGrath was wounded during “an agent-involved shooting” around 6:30 p.m. in a commercial area on the southwestern outskirts of Knoxville, Tennessee. Buchwald said McGrath was taken to a hospital.
Further details, including how McGrath was wounded and what led up to it, were not immediately released. The shooting was under investigation.
“The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously,” said Buchwald, who declined to confirm that McGrath had died.
McGrath, 53, served as chief of staff to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. He was declared a wanted fugitive after his disappearance, and the FBI has said he was considered an international flight risk.
In a statement, Hogan said he and his wife, Yumi, “are deeply saddened by this tragic situation. We are praying for Mr. McGrath’s family and loved ones.”
Murtha called the death “a tragic ending to the past three weeks of uncertainty” and said his client always maintained his innocence.
After McGrath failed to appear at Baltimore’s federal courthouse on March 13, Murtha said he believed McGrath, who had moved to Naples, Florida, was planning to fly to Maryland the night before. Instead of beginning jury selection, a judge issued an arrest warrant and dismissed prospective jurors.
McGrath was indicted in 2021 on accusations he fraudulently secured a $233,648 severance payment, equal to one year of salary as the head of Maryland Environmental Service, by falsely telling the agency’s board the governor had approved it. He was also accused of fraud and embezzlement connected to roughly $170,000 in expenses. McGrath pleaded not guilty.
McGrath resigned just 11 weeks into the job as Hogan’s chief of staff in 2020 after the payments became public.
If convicted of the federal charges, he would have faced a maximum sentence of 20 years for each of four counts of wire fraud, plus a maximum of 10 years for each of two counts of embezzling funds from an organization receiving more than $10,000 in federal benefits.
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Washington: A medical helicopter crashed in Shelby County in the US state of Alabama, killing two crew members.
The helicopter was reportedly requested to assist in the extraction of a patient who went hiking in the area and suffered breathing problems and chest pains, reports Xinhua news agency.
A Shelby County deputy called 911 to report the crash of the aircraft on Sunday evening.
“Deputies and other first responders are currently on the scene of an aircraft accident in the area of Bear Creek Road (Co Rd 43) and Mountain Oaks Drive,” the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said in a social media post.
The road is closed in both directions and will likely be closed for an extended period of time, the post read.
There were three crew members onboard, according to Shelby County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Clay Hammac.
One of them was pronounced dead on the scene. Two others were taken to the hospital, where another was pronounced dead.
The condition of the third crew member was not immediately known.
The original patient — the hiker — was said to have been transported separately to a hospital.
Toronto: Canadian police have named two of the eight people, including four Indians, whose bodies were found in a marshland area along the US-Canada border, amid an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths.
Bodies of eight persons were recovered last week from the marsh on the riverbank near Akwesasne, a community which straddles Quebec, Ontario and New York state.
Police say the deceased believed to be two families of Indian and Romanian descent were trying to cross into the US from Canada. Among them were two children under the age of three, both Canadian citizens.
On Saturday, police said that four Indian nationals, who they believed were a family attempting to cross into the US, have not been identified.
Citing a source with the police in India, the CBC News reported that at least three of them are family members from Gujarat.
The source said the family members include a man in his 50s and a woman and man in their 20s. The age and gender of the fourth Indian national is unknown at this time, the report said.
The identities of other people recovered of Indian descent have not been released, pending identification and notification of next of kin, the Montreal Gazette newspaper reported.
“The circumstances of their deaths continue to be investigated,” the paper added.
“However, it is known that these families were attempting to enter the United States illegally from Canada,” Akwesasne Mohawk Police said.
Akwesasne officials have named two family members of Romanian descent including a man holding his two children’s passports who were among eight bodies recovered from the St. Lawrence River, near the Quebec-Ontario border.
“One man has been identified as 28-year-old Florin Iordache. Police said he had two Canadian passports in his possession one for his two-year-old child and another for his one-year-old infant whose bodies were recovered,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
“One woman Florin’s wife and the children’s mother has also been identified as 28-year-old Cristina (Monalisa) Zenaida Iordache,” the report said, quoting the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service statement.
Police found the bodies of five adults and one infant in the marshland on Friday. Another infant and an adult woman were located later. One of the children was a Canadian citizen.
Akwesasne police are working with Immigration Canada to assist with identifying the victims and notifying the next of kin. They are also increasing surveillance on the river.
“Our hearts are with the families of these victims as we try to work through our own grief for precious lives lost in our territory. Our culture and traditions are based heavily around family and it is difficult for us all to imagine the dreams these families had and the sadness of their deaths.
“This heart-wrenching event profoundly demonstrates the human qualities we all share,” said the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne.
Grand Chief Abram Benedict said the department is committed to understanding how this tragedy occurred and “how we can work with our police department and partners to prevent it from ever happening again.”
Valene Gray, the owner of the Three Feathers Cafe, said the community has been shaken by the tragedy.
“In the past couple of days, it’s been very heavy, very emotional, customers coming in and they’re sad. You could tell they were upset, you could tell they were hurting,” Gray said on Saturday.
Wanting to offer support to her community, Gray said it was an honour to be hired by the Mohawk council to make sure all of the volunteer searchers were fed.
She said the cafe has provided breakfast sandwiches for the past two days and supper on Friday.
Akwesasne police say there have been 48 incidents of people trying to cross illegally into Canada or into the United States through the Mohawk territory since January, and most of them have been of Indian or Romanian descent.
In January 2022, the bodies of four Indians, including a baby, were found frozen in Manitoba near the Canada-US border.
In April 2022, six Indian nationals were rescued from a sinking boat in the St Regis River, which runs through Akwesasne Mohawk Territory.
Residents of Wynne, a community of about 8,000 people 50 miles west of Memphis, Tennessee, woke Saturday to find the high school’s roof shredded and its windows blown out. Huge trees lay on the ground, their stumps reduced to nubs. Broken walls, windows and roofs pocked homes and businesses.
Debris lay scattered inside the shells of homes and on lawns: clothing, insulation, toys, splintered furniture, a pickup truck with its windows shattered.
Ashley Macmillan said she, her husband and their children huddled with their dogs in a small bathroom as a tornado passed, “praying and saying goodbye to each other, because we thought we were dead.” A falling tree seriously damaged their home, but they were unhurt.
“We could feel the house shaking, we could hear loud noises, dishes rattling. And then it just got calm,” she said.
Recovery was already underway, with workers using chainsaws and bulldozers to clear the area and utility crews restoring power.
Nine people died in Tennessee’s McNairy County, east of Memphis, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
“The majority of the damage has been done to homes and residential areas,” said David Leckner, the mayor of Adamsville.
Gov. Bill Lee drove to the county Saturday to tour the destruction and comfort residents. He said the storm capped the “worst” week of his time as governor, coming days after a school shooting in Nashville that killed six people including a family friend whose funeral he and his wife, Maria, attended earlier in the day.
“It’s terrible what has happened in this community, this county, this state,” Lee said. “But it looks like your community has done what Tennessean communities do, and that is rally and respond.”
Jeffrey Day said he called his daughter after seeing on the news that their community of Adamsville was being hit. Huddled in a closet with her 2-year-old son as the storm passed over, she answered the phone screaming.
“She kept asking me, ‘What do I do, daddy?’” Day said, tearing up. “I didn’t know what to say.”
After the storm passed, his daughter crawled out of her destroyed home and over barbed wire and drove to nearby family. On Saturday evening, baby clothes were still strewn about the site.
In Memphis, police spokesman Christopher Williams said via email late Saturday that there were three deaths believed to be weather-related: two children and an adult who died when a tree fell on a house.
Tennessee officials warned that the same weather conditions from Friday night are expected to return Tuesday.
In Belvidere, Illinois, part of the roof of the Apollo Theatre collapsed as about 260 people were attending a heavy metal concert. A 50-year-old man was pulled from the rubble.
“I sat with him and I held his hand and I was (telling him), ‘It’s going to be OK.’ I didn’t really know much else what to do,” concertgoer Gabrielle Lewellyn told WTVO-TV.
The man was dead by the time emergency workers arrived. Officials said 40 others were hurt, including two with life-threatening injuries.
Crews cleaned up around the Apollo on Saturday, with forklifts pulling away loose bricks. Business owners picked up glass shards and covered shattered windows.
In Crawford County, Illinois, three people were killed and eight injured when a tornado hit around New Hebron, said Bill Burke, the county board chair.
Sheriff Bill Rutan said 60 to 100 families were displaced.
“We’ve had emergency crews digging people out of their basements because the house is collapsed on top of them, but luckily they had that safe space to go to,” Rutan said at a news conference.
That tornado was not far from where three people died in Indiana’s Sullivan County, about 95 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
Sullivan Mayor Clint Lamb said at a news conference that an area south of the county seat of about 4,000 “is essentially unrecognizable right now” and several people were rescued overnight. There were reports of as many as 12 people injured, he said.
“I’m really, really shocked there isn’t more as far as human issues,” he said, adding that recovery “is going to be a very long process.”
In the Little Rock area, at least one person was killed and more than 50 were hurt, some critically.
The National Weather Service said that tornado was a high-end EF3 twister with wind speeds up to 165 mph and a path as long as 25 miles.
Masoud Shahed-Ghaznavi was lunching at home when it roared through his neighborhood, causing him to hide in the laundry room as sheetrock fell and windows shattered. When he emerged, the house was mostly rubble.
“Everything around me is sky,” Shahed-Ghaznavi recalled Saturday. He barely slept Friday night.
“When I closed my eyes, I couldn’t sleep, imagined I was here,” he said Saturday outside his home.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. On Saturday, Sanders requested a major disaster declaration from President Joe Biden to support recovery efforts with federal resources.
Another suspected tornado killed a woman in northern Alabama’s Madison County, officials said, and in northern Mississippi’s Pontotoc County, authorities confirmed one death and four injuries.
Tornadoes also caused damage in eastern Iowa and broke windows northeast of Peoria, Illinois.
The storms struck just hours after Biden visited Rolling Fork, Mississippi, where tornadoes last week destroyed parts of town.
It could take days to determine the exact number of tornadoes from the latest event, said Bill Bunting, chief of forecast operations at the Storm Prediction Center. There were also hundreds of reports of large hail and damaging winds, he said.
“That’s a quite active day,” he said. “But that’s not unprecedented.”
More than 530,000 homes and businesses were without power as of midday Saturday, over 200,000 of them in Ohio, according to PowerOutage.us.
The sprawling storm system also brought wildfires to the southern Plains, with authorities in Oklahoma reporting nearly 100 of them Friday. At least 32 people were said to be injured, and more than 40 homes destroyed.
The storms also caused blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest.
A threat of tornadoes and hail remained for the Northeast including in parts of Pennsylvania and New York.
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Kabul: Two children were killed as a mortar mine left over from past wars went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak province, provincial police spokesman Yusuf Israr said Sunday.
The incident took place when children in Sayedabad district found a mortar mine on Saturday evening and began playing with it. The device suddenly exploded, killing two children of a family, the official told reporters.
This is the third blast of its kind, which has claimed the lives of innocent children in Afghanistan over the past six days, Xinhua News Agency reported.
A similar blast claimed the lives of two children and injured four others in the northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday, while another child lost his life and three others were injured as an unexploded mine left over from past wars exploded in southern Zabul province on Friday.
War-torn Afghanistan is reportedly one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, as dozens of people, mostly children, are killed and maimed every month due to the blasts of unexploded devices left over from the past four decades of wars and civil strife.
New Delhi: A 53-year-old lawyer was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Delhi’s Dwarka area on Saturday, an official said.
The official said that the deceased was identified as Virender Kumar, a resident of Sector-12, Dwarka and his security was withdrawn after following due procedure in 2021.
According to police, an information was received on Saturday around 4:20 p.m. regarding an incident of murder near Sector-1 in Dwarka following which a police team rushed to the spot.
“On spot, it was revealed that two bike-borne assailants shot Virender, an advocate by profession, in a Maruti Ertiga car,” said a senior police official.
“Prima facie, the angle of personal enmity is suspected to be the reason. However, multiple teams are working on the case from all angles,” said the official, adding that further investigation is going on.
