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19 March 2024

Crazy World: Premature baby dies of rat bites

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CHENNAI: A premature baby who died inside an incubator in the Indian city of Chennai was handed over to its heartbroken parents in a disfigured shape. The parents have alleged that their infant did not get a fair chance to life as it died of rat bites, reports NDTV.

Two doctors and seven workers at the hospital have been suspended for negligence, the channel said.

The residents of Chennai were furious over emerging reports which led the chief minister of the state to issue a statement that the baby was disfigured only after its death. A post-mortem was performed on the infant and it was left overnight in the hospital and only handed over to its family members the next day.

Meanwhile, measures are being taken to keep the hospitals free of snakes and rats and specialist catchers would be employed to hunt them and keep hospital premises clean. 

Cleaner sexually assaults 7 boys

SINGAPORE: A cleaner has been put behind bars for 18 years for sexually assaulting seven boys aged 11 to 13.

The 38-year-old man would go to a particular game centre in Singapore and lure young boys and then take them to an isolated spot and with food and drink and then force them into disgusting acts, reports Asia One.

The man has a history of committing sexual crime against young boys. He had been jailed for 12 years in 2001 for having sex with three boys.

He has been pronounced to be a serial paedophile and was also ordered 15 strokes of the cane for the sexual assaults on unsuspecting and innocent boys.
 
Raped by neighbour, girl commits suicide

INDIA: A girl, 16, committed suicide in the Indian state of Rajasthan after she was kidnapped and subsequently raped by a young man.

The village girl had gone to the nearby jungle for some work. Her neighbour followed her and forcefully dragged her to an isolated spot and raped her, reports The Times of India.

The rapist fled the scene after the incident.

The same evening a few eye witnesses reported seeing the girl jump into the well. They reported the matter to the authorities even as her family members rushed to save her.

However, they could only manage to retrieve her body from the well.

The villagers told the police that the rapist had humiliated her and she could not live with herself after she was defiled by the man.

The accused is on the run and police are on the lookout to arrest him.

Fined by school, boy commits suicide

INDIA: A 10th grader in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu ended his life as he was fined by his school and he had no means of paying the amount he was asked to cough up. 

The boy and a few of his friends were punished for breaking some flower pots in the school premises, the police told the media.

The boy missed school for a few days as he belonged to a poor family and he knew that he could not afford to pay his share of Rs 5,000 (about Dh350) fine levied by the school.

When the boy finally returned to class, he was asked to pay up. He went back home and committed suicide.
 
Dad held for blowing up daughter's boyfriend

GERMANY: Police in the German city of Cologne say they have arrested a 52-year-old man on suspicion of blowing up his daughter's boyfriend.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that the suspect appeared to have forced his way into the victim's apartment late Monday and poured gasoline on the floor.

The petrol evaporated causing a powerful explosion that hurled the 17-year-old from a fourth-floor window. He died at the scene.

Police say the suspect was also injured in the blast and is currently in an induced coma. The man had previously threatened the boyfriend because he was unhappy about the relationship with his daughter.

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