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Hyderabad: A 10-year-old girl fell into an open manhole and lost her life in the city’s Kalasiguda area on Saturday.
The 10-year-old girl, who was identified as Mounica, was reportedly going home after purchasing groceries in the morning.
According to media reports, she fell into the manhole after saving a mentally challenged person from falling into it. Her body was found by the GHMC DRF team and local police in a nala near Park Lane, Secunderabad.
Post the incident, the GHMC is being blamed for sheer negligence.
Hyderabad on Saturday woke up to heavy rainfall and a cloudy sky. More downpours are expected in the day as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Hyderabad has issued a yellow alert for Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana.
Himayathnagar recorded the highest rainfall of 77.8 mm this morning, while other areas such as Serilingampally, Malkajgiri, Musheerabad, Shaikpet, and Nampally also experienced heavy rainfall.
Massive rains are currently being witnessed in central Telangana, including Siddipet, Yadadri-Bhongir, and Jangaon. These areas are expected to receive heavy rainfall, and the downpour is likely to extend to parts of Warangal, Hanmakonda, and Mahabubabad. Later, the rainfall is expected to cover parts of Sircilla, Karimnagar, Kamareddy, and Bhadradri-Kothagudem.
Meanwhile, Hyderabad is expected to experience a break in the rainfall for the next three hours.
According to the IMD, all six zones in Hyderabad, including Charminar, Khairatabad, Kukatpally, LB Nagar, Secunderabad, and Serilingampally, are likely to experience a generally cloudy sky with light to moderate rainfall or thundershowers.
Apart from Hyderabad, its neighboring districts, Rangareddy and Malkajgiri, and other districts of Telangana, such as Adilabad, Kumara Bheem, Nirmal, Mancherial, Jagtial, Nizamabad, Bhupally, Mulugu, Warangal, Hanamkonda, Siddipet, Rajanna Sircilla, Kamareddy, Medak, Sangareddy, Vikarabad, Bhuvanagiri, Mahabubnagar, Narayanpet, Jogulamba Gadwal, Wanaparthy, and Nagarkurnool, are also expected to witness thunderstorms accompanied by lightning, hailstorm, and gusty winds with heavy rainfall.
The Telangana State Development Planning Society (TSDPS) has also predicted light to moderate rainfall in the city today. The rainfall in Hyderabad is likely to provide relief from the scorching summer heat, as the maximum temperature is expected to dip below 36 degrees Celsius.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )
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Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then 21 and named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store where she was working in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.
Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.
In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to Till.
The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, North Carolina, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.
Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded in 2021. He said he decided to make it public after some of Till’s relatives and other people doing research at the Leflore County, Mississippi, courthouse in June 2022 found an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for “Mrs. Roy Bryant” in 1955 but never served.
Tyson said in a statement Thursday that Donham’s precise role in the killing of Till remains murky, but it’s clear she was involved.
“It has comforted America to see this as merely a story of monsters, her among them,” Tyson said. “What this narrative keeps us from seeing is the monstrous social order that cared nothing for the life of Emmett Till nor thousands more like him. Neither the federal government nor the government of Mississippi did anything to prevent or punish this murder. Condemning what Donham did is easier than confronting what America was — and is.”
Last year, members of the New Black Panther Party and other activists, began showing up at addresses associated with the aging Donham, including in North Carolina and Kentucky. They were there to serve unofficial “warrants” for her arrest and trial.
Weeks after the unserved arrest warrant was found, the office of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch said there was no new evidence to pursue a criminal case against Donham. In August, a district attorney said a Leflore County grand jury declined to indict Donham.
Till’s cousin, Priscilla Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit against the current Leflore County Sheriff, Ricky Banks, on Feb. 7, seeking to compel him to serve the 1955 warrant on Donham. In a response April 13, Banks’ attorney said there was no point serving the warrant on Donham because the grand jury did not indict her last year.
The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, run by some of Till’s relatives, posted a blank black square to social media sites Thursday after news of Donham’s death was reported.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )
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The white woman whose allegations resulted in the torture and murder of the Black teen Emmett Till, an unpunished killing that outraged America and fueled the civil rights movement, has died.
On Thursday, the Calcasieu parish coroner’s office in Louisiana confirmed the death of Carolyn Bryant Donham, Mississippi Today reported. She was 88 and was reported to have had cancer, in hospice care.
In 1955, Till was 14 when, while visiting family in Mississippi, he was accused by Donham, then 21, of making lewd comments and grabbing her at a grocery store.
Days later, Till was kidnapped at gunpoint by two white men. Evidence indicated that a woman, thought to be Donham, identified Till to them.
The attackers beat Till, dragged him to a river and shot him in the head. They used barbed wire to tie his body to a large metal fan before dumping both in the river.
Till’s disfigured corpse was found days later.
His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, decided to leave her son’s casket open during his funeral in Chicago, to “let the world see what they did to my boy”.
Mobley’s decision triggered nationwide outrage, fueling protests for civil rights reform.
According to an unserved 1955 arrest warrant, Donham, her then husband Roy Bryant and her brother-in-law JW Milam were charged with Till’s abduction.
Despite the warrant being publicly released at the time, the county sheriff told reporters he did not want to “bother” Donham since she had two young children to care for, according to the Associated Press. The sheriff also claimed Donham could not be located for arrest.
Bryant and Milam were tried for murder but acquitted by an all-white jury. Months later, in a magazine interview, they confessed to killing Till. Both have since died.
According to an unpublished memoir by Donham, reviewed by the AP, she said she had not known what would happen to Till. She claimed she tried to deny Till’s identity when the two men brought him to her. But Till identified himself, she said.
Donham also revealed that after her husband and brother-in-law were arrested, two men from the sheriff’s office drove Donham and her sister-in-law to the prison for a relaxed visit outside the cells, before driving the women home.
In February, Till’s cousin, Patricia Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit seeking Donham’s arrest. The suit sought to compel the sheriff’s office in Leflore county to serve the 1955 arrest warrant, which was discovered last year, in a courthouse basement. A grand jury declined to indict.
News of Donham’s death triggered widespread reaction online.
“Justice could have been served,” one user tweeted. Another wrote, “My thoughts are … with the family of Emmett Till who worked to bring him and Mamie Till-Mobley justice. Please direct your love toward them today.”
Nina Turner, a progressive activist and former Ohio state senator, wrote: “Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, has died at 88. She got to grow old. Emmett Till did not get that opportunity. Rest in power, Emmett.“
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )