Crazy World: Man wanted to marry the girl he raped

BRITAIN: A man has allegedly smuggled three girls from Nigeria to Britain to sell them into flesh trade in Italy. He also allegedly kept them under his control by threatening them with witchcraft.

One of the victims, now 18, was raped up to three times a week by the 42-year-old man, she told the court. The other two girls, aged 15 and 17, were also sexually abused by him. The man also forced them to call him 'uncle'.

The teenager also said that the man told her that he wanted to marry her, reports Daily Mail.

The man has been charged for committing 13 offences of trafficking, rape, false imprisonment and sexual activity with a child.

Father-in-law killed after rape attempt

INDIA: A young housewife was forced to kill her father-in-law when he tried to rape her while her husband and other members of the family were away from home in the small town of Bokaro. This was not the first time he had tried to sexually abuse her.

The 30-year-old woman told The Times of India that this was the third time he attempted to rape her. On the day the incident occurred, the victim had sent the woman's husband to the family village on an errand. The woman was left alone with her father-in-law.

FInding her alone and with no help forthcoming, he tried to rape her. She escaped from the kitchen and stabbed him repeatedly and fled to her father's place in another town.

Once she reached the safety of her own home, she informed her husband about the incident.

By the time the police were summoned, the body of the victim had decomposed. The knife that was used to murder the old man was recovered from the scene of the crime.

The woman also received injuries on her face but police are trying to determine whether she injured herself during a scuffle with her father-in-law or at a different point of time.

Man kills hiccupping friend by mistake

US: A soldier in Texas was only trying to help his friend stop hiccupping. He took out his gun and pointed it at his friend in order to scare him so he would stop hiccupping. However, the gun went off by mistake killing the friend.

The soldier has been booked on charges of manslaughter, reports ANI.

The paramedics attempted to air-lift him to a proper hospital but the victim, also a soldier, died. He was shot in the eye by his friend who called it a 'mistake'.

Girl, 3, dies after boiling water falls on her

INDIA: A little girl of three lost her battle for life nine days after a bucket of hot, boiling water fell on her in the Indian metropolis of Chennai.

The tragedy occurred on September 21 when the mother of the child kept a bucket of hot water and left her children unsupervised in the same room to go to the kitchen to cook a meal, reports Times News Network.

The three-year-old child and her one-year-old sister were playing in the same room when the bucket toppled and while the elder one was trying to hold on to it, the water cascaded on her.

The mother rushed to the room when she heard her daughter scream. The girl had sustained 50 per cent burns and she did not respond to the treatment and died a painful death at a tender age.

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