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Father killed after student who jumped to his death lands on him
Yang Dae-jin sustained severe injuries to his head and later died while the student was killed instantly
Samuel Osborne
Saturday 4 June 2016

A South Korean civil servant has been killed after he was hit by a student who had jumped to his death.
Yang Dae-jin, 39, was killed when the 25-year-old student jumped from the 20th floor of an apartment building on Tuesday, the Korea Times reports.
Mr Dae-jin sustained severe injuries to his head and later died in hospital. The student was killed instantly.

The civil servant was on his way home with his pregnant wife and five-year-old son in Gwangju, South Korea. He had been working in the public relations department in the adjacent county of Gokseong.

The student was reportedly preparing to take the civil service exam.

"We are considering charging the student with accidental homicide," a police officer told the Korea Times.
"The case will be concluded without indictment as the student is dead, but this procedure is expected to help Yang's family receive compensation."

Mr Dae-jin's family have forgiven the student and have decided not to seek compensation, the Korea Joonang Daily reported.
Speaking at his funeral, his widow's 53-year-old uncle, surnamed Seo, reportedly said: “The college student who committed suicide is another victim of our mercilessly competitive society.
“So we have decided to forgive him.”

When asked further about the student, Mr Seo added: “I heard he was preparing for the civil servant examination.
"The family must be also going through a hard time from the loss of their beloved one. I can’t imagine how it would feel like to lose my son so suddenly.
"Yang’s wife went through a lot, but she finally decided to forgive the student.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...umped-to-his-death-lands-on-him-a7065561.html
 
rynner2 said:
Another amended Guardian article...
Saddleworth Moor death: image of 'Neil Dovestone' released
Greater Manchester police circulate artist’s impression as search focuses on Pakistan for identity of man killed by rat poison
Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent
Saturday 14 May 2016 00.00 BST

This is the face of “Neil Dovestone” – the man who was found dead on top of Saddleworth Moor five months ago.
The artist’s impression has been released exclusively to the Guardian and is the first forensic image of the man whose true identity remains unknown.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...h-moor-death-image-of-neil-dovestone-released
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An in-depth look at the case by the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-e8c6cbab-da44-4a3c-8f9b-c4fccd53dd24

Hardly any new information, but very well illustrated with maps and photos. The dead man certainly had links with Pakistan, but he still has not been identified.
 
Yellowstone National Park: Man dies after falling into hot spring

Officials with Yellowstone National Park say a man died after falling into a hot spring, having wandered away from a path.
Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, fell into the spring in the Norris Geyser Basin area of the park in north-west Wyoming.
Authorities are now trying to retrieve Mr Scott's body from the spring but have so far been unable to reach it.

Springs in that part of the park, where boiling water runs under thin rock, can see temperatures of up to 93C (199F).
"It's very fragile rock and can be thin as a skiff of ice," said park spokeswoman Charissa Reid.

Park officials say Mr Scott and his sister had strayed some 200 metres (656ft) from a designated walkway. They recommend visitors do not leave trails in hydrothermal areas or approach wildlife.
On Saturday, a 13-year-old boy suffered burns after his father, who was carrying him, slipped into another hot spring in the park. The pair had also reportedly left a path.

etc...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36486002
 
Woman dies after getting stabbed by wind-blown beach umbrella

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — A woman in Virginia was killed when a gust of wind blew a beach umbrella right into her chest.

The deadly incident happened Wednesday evening at Virginia Beach.

According to WJW sister station WTKR, Virginia Beach Police said they got a call about a cardiac arrest just after 5 p.m.

When medics arrived, they found a woman suffering from a life-threatening injury caused by a beach umbrella that stabbed her in the chest.

“It kinda looked like something out of ‘The Wizard of Oz’,” a witness told WTKR. “Literally you saw the umbrella go up in the air and literally it hit the woman knocking her to the side.”

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The woman was rushed to the hospital where she later died.
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SOURCE: http://fox8.com/2016/06/09/woman-dies-after-getting-stabbed-by-wind-blown-beach-umbrella/
 
Nurse lay dead in children's hospital for 'up to two days' before she was found
  • 09:18, 16 JUN 2016 UPDATED 09:34, 16 JUN 2016
The nurse was found in one of the room's in in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin

A tragic nurse lay dead in a children's hospital for 'nearly two days' before she was found.

A garda investigation is under way after the nurse was found on Tuesday morning in one of the room's in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, which is left for parent's accomodation.

It is believed that the nurse was last seen working on Sunday at the hospital.

Efforts were made to resuscitate the woman but it was too late.

The nurse was in her late 30s but gardai don't believe that there was any foul play.

The death is being treated as a tragedy, the Irish Independent reports.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/iris...4213#ICID=Android_IrishMirrorNewsApp_AppShare
 
Man dies in cinema while watching The Conjuring 2 – and body goes missing

A 65-year-old man died in a cinema auditorium last week while watching a screening of horror movie The Conjuring 2.

The incident occurred at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The cinema-goer, from Andhra Pradesh, had complained of chest pains during the film’s climax, and fainted shortly afterwards.

He was rushed to the nearby Old Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead. Medics ordered his body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem but, according to the Times of India, the cadaver, and the person charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.

While there are no doubt rational explanations for both the man’s death and the disappearance of his body, the story has fuelled a wave of supernatural panic on social media that has accompanied the film’s release. ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...hile-watching-the-conjuring-2--and-body-goes/
 
Man killed by falling boxes of frozen fish at Plymouth factory
By sabel | Posted: June 21, 2016

Health and safety failings led to the death of a worker crushed by a stack of frozen fish, a court heard today.
Tomas Suchy, aged 22, was buried under pallets and stock in a -25C cold store room at Interfish's Cattedown factory in October 2013, a judge was told.

Prosecutors said that falls of stacks of boxes of frozen fish on pallets were "not uncommon" before the tragedy.
A fork lift driver's rib was broken in another stack fall eight months before, the sentencing hearing at Plymouth Crown Court was told.

Mr Suchy and two colleagues were sent in to clear up the mess from a previous fall when a further collapse happened on October 18, 2013.
Sean Brunton, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive, said Mr Suchy was struck by falling boxes and "effectively buried" in the collapse.

He was pronounced dead at the scene and a colleague was knocked to the floor.
Mr Brunton: "He has suffered permanent nerve damage and has not worked since. The prognosis is reasonably bleak."
Interfish has previously pleaded guilty to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its employees.

Mr Suchy, who had studied architecture at university, had come to Britain to find work.

Mr Brunton said Interfish, with 250 employees, loaded up to 52 boxes of freshly-landed fish each weighing between 20 kilos and 25 kilos on to a pallet in the cold store room.
The pallets were then stacked up to five high, measuring up to six metres and weighing around 1.2 tons.

But Mr Brunton said the stacks of boxes, loaded on to one another by fork lift trucks, were in an "ad hoc system".
He added that several boxes of pallets were damaged and still used.
Mr Brunton said some boxes were wrapped in material to keep them secure and others were not. The height of the stack which fell and killed Mr Suchy is not clear.

The court was also told that staff working in the cold store room did not have protective headgear – though they had steel toe-capped boots.
Mr Suchy suffered fatal head injuries.

The company faces a fine of tens of thousands of pounds during a sentencing hearing that started this afternoon.
Judge Ian Lawrie is due to continue the case tomorrow, with sentence later this week or next week.
He said that the previous falls had put the company "on notice".
The judge said: "There were previous falls and no refinement to the risk assessment is done. Whether that is due to complacency or omission it does not much matter.
"I am not expecting perfection, what I am looking for is the company to ensure as much as possible that steps are taken so that risks are reasonably diminished."
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http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/man...outh-factory/story-29427982-detail/story.html
 
What an absolutely awful thing to happen to a young hardworking person.
 
Police: Man died while unloading $12 million in marijuana
Published June 22, 2016

NORCROSS, Ga. – Atlanta area police say a man appears to have died of natural causes while unloading marijuana from a van.

Gwinnett County police said in a statement that officers on Monday responded to a call of a man slumped near a van and a tractor trailer.

Officers found 31-year-old Johnny Taylor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dead and kneeling on the ground with his head on the step of the van's side door. Police say his body showed no signs of trauma and that it appears he died of natural causes.

Police say that once Taylor's body was removed, officers found bags of marijuana inside a box in the van and saw similar boxes in the truck.

Officers got a warrant and seized several hundred pounds of marijuana with a street value of about $12 million.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/22/police-man-died-while-unloading-12-million-in-marijuana.html
 
Head found at quarry could have come from train accident 50-years ago
Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent
24 June 2016 • 11:19am

A severed head discovered in a quarry could have come from a man who was decapitated by a passing train 50-years ago, the police have said.
The grisly find was made by workers in Cambridgeshire last month, but detectives said they believed it had initially come from a quarry site almost 40 miles away in Shanbrook, Bedfordshire.

Unable to identify it, police drafted in experts from the Natural History Museum in London and now think the victim may have been killed as the result of a tragic accident that was not known about at the time.
One theory being explored is that a person was struck by a train and decapitated as long ago as the 1960s and the head then became lodged in a nearby bridge.
It is thought it may have remained there undiscovered for decades before coming loose when the structure was cleaned.
The head was then scooped up in material that was taken to the quarry where shocked workers finally discovered it.

Experts from the Natural History Museum and forensic dentists have been working with police to establish the identity of the person and have said they believe it was a man aged between 30 and 50.
Detective Inspector Jerry Waite of Cambridgeshire Police said: “One possible scenario we are looking at is that it may have been a tragic accident whereby the man was hit by a train along the Bedfordshire line.
“We believe the head may have been lodged somewhere along the structure of the bridge in Sharnbrook, and as part of the recent cleaning process, has been dislodged, found its way into the skip and deposited at the quarry in Mepal.

“We have been working very closely with anthropologists at the Natural History Museum in London to establish the age and gender of the deceased, as well as the National Crime Agency's Missing Persons Database, which unfortunately has not shown any DNA matches.
“I would urge anyone who has any suspicions around who this person may be to contact us."

When the head was discovered one of the workers said it still had eyebrows and hair and had initially thought it had come from a discarded mannequin.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-could-have-come-from-train-accident-50-year/

Map, etc, on page.
 
Drama student dies dramatically...
Aiden Webb: Norwich backpacker died in Vietnam waterfall plunge

A British backpacker who died climbing Vietnam's highest mountain fell to his death after slipping down a steep waterfall, his family has confirmed.
Aiden Webb, 22, from Norwich, set off to climb the Fansipan mountain alone on 3 June. He called his girlfriend to say he had fallen, injuring himself. His phone stopped working the next morning.
His body was found on 9 June.
Post-mortem tests showed he died at about 07:00 on 4 June, after falling 18m (60ft) into a shallow pool.

Mr Webb, an experienced climber, had started his ascent of the 3,100m (10,300ft) high mountain at about 06:00 and planned to climb it in a day.
He had gone to Vietnam with his girlfriend Bluebell Baughan, 24, of White Notley, Essex, and she was in contact with him by phone from the nearest town of Sapa.

Mr Webb told her he had fallen into a ravine having been forced off the main trail by a landslide.
He had cut his arm open on a rock, hurt his knee and lost his way, but was trying to make it back to safety.
The pair were in contact all night and last spoke at about 06:18 the following morning, 4 June, when Mr Webb agreed his girlfriend should raise the alarm. His phone then stopped working.

Vietnamese TV said about 150 people were involved in the search for Mr Webb, whose body was eventually found by rangers near Sin Chai village at 12:50 local time (06:50 BST) on 9 June.

In a message posted on Sunday in both English and Vietnamese on Facebook, by Miss Baughan, the family said: "Aiden's body was found on the 9th of June by a team of seven comprising of Sapa police, military police and local men.
"An investigation was made following the recovery of Aiden's body. The findings show that around 7am on the 4th of June Aiden fell down an 18-metre waterfall, he died upon impact with the water of the plunge pool at its base."
His parents thanked those involved in the search and confirmed Mr Webb's body had been returned home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-36638881

Sad and yet somehow heroic.
(Map and photos on page.)
 
I'm surprised no-one has commented on the 'decapitated by train' story, because there's still a mystery there - was the body never found?
 
rynner2 said:
A severed head discovered in a quarry could have come from a man who was decapitated by a passing train 50-years ago, the police have said.
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There isn't any indication of a specific tragedy in the article - so I went looking . . .

I found a reference to a head-on collision between two trains at Sharnbrook but that was in 1909. No mention of a bridge.Follow the link to the pdf of the accident report.

This accident on a bridge sounds horrible enough but it is nearer seventy years ago. :confused:
 
kamalktk said:
Mummified man found hugging tree in Siberia sitting on branch 50ft above the ground
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1st comment below the article -

37 minutes ago
JennyHobson
"most likely the man got so cold he decided to climb the tree," What?? If I get cold, the first thing I think of is finding a tree to climb. Never heard such a stupid reason. Maybe he was chased by a bear, or wolves, or I don't know, a damn Yeti! But climbing fifty feet up a tree due to the cold makes no sense.
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"Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She sayes, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side"
 
As a young teenager when that song was popular, I puzzled over that phrase 'giving head'. Did it mean she was thinking really hard?
I didn't ask an adult. Good job, eh!
 
Seven-year-old girl dies in Moroccan zoo after elephant throws rock at her head
James Rothwell
28 July 2016 • 3:47pm

A seven-year-old girl has died after an elephant hurled a rock at her head in a Moroccan zoo.

The schoolgirl, who has not been identified, was posing for a photograph next to the elephant enclosure at the Jardin Zoologique in Rabat when one of the animals used its trunk to pick up a large stone.
The stone was tossed high into the air, passing over the enclosure’s fence and a ditch separating the animals from visitors, before hitting her on the back of the head.
She was taken to a nearby hospital with severe head injuries but died several hours later.

Initial reports said the girl's father had lifted her onto his shoulders so her mother could take a photograph of the pair with the elephants in the background.

Video footage taken by a bystander shows a group of onlookers gathered around the girl, while the girl’s family held her head and stroked her leg.

A spokesman for the zoo offered its condolences to the family but said the enclosure met international standards and that the accident was “unforeseeable.”
“This tragic event happened when the elephant threw a projectile which went over the fence, as well as a ditch which separates the animal from visitors,” he said.
“These kinds of accidents are rare, unforeseeable and unusual. The zoo’s staff offers their deepest sympathies to the family of the deceased at this difficult time.”

He added: “We really are deeply saddened by this event and we will offer as much support as we can to the family to get through this.”
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It is the first time a deadly accident has happened at Rabat zoo, which opened in January 2009.
The zoo did not announce any plans to put down the elephant, a female named Assia, and several Moroccans have taken to social media to urge for its life to be spared.

Rabat city prosecutors said they were investigating the girls’ death.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...dies-in-moroccan-zoo-after-elephant-threw-ro/
 
rip, Rich E. Ritch, from worlds wealthiest kid to stealing wheels at a car dealership

http://www.cantonrep.com/news/20160...lled-trying-to-steal-wheels-at-car-dealership

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JACKSON TWP. A 43-year-old man was found dead at noon Saturday in the north parking lot of the Ron Marhofer Buick GMC dealership on Whipple Avenue NW.

Stark County Coroner's investigator Rick Walters said the man apparently was trying to steal wheels from an SUV at the dealership when the GMC Yukon fell off the jack, struck him in the head and crushed him. Walters identified him as Richard E. Ritch. He would have turned 44 next month. His driver's license listed him as living in the 3600 block of Millvale Avenue NE in Plain Township. But Walters said he no longer lived there and resided on 34th Street NE near Harmont Avenue NE either in Canton or Plain Township.

Coroner P.S. Murthy is scheduled to perform an autopsy of Ritch at noon Sunday.

The man apparently died sometime between 9 p.m. Friday and early Saturday morning.

Dealership employees initially did not see his body before they opened the dealership at 9 a.m. He was behind a row of vehicles.

After a vehicle that was blocking the view of the man's body was moved, a sales associate looking out the window spotted the man's body, sales manager Kyle Green said.

The vehicle had fallen on Ritch, pinning him, and one wheel had been removed from the vehicle, said Walters.

Green said the dealership staff immediately contacted police at the "obviously shocking" discovery and left the scene untouched.

He said the dealership stayed open as police investigated, and none of the business' operations were affected. He said the dealership's service department is inspecting the vehicle for any damage.

Walters said Jackson Township police led the investigation, assisted by the Stark County sheriff's office.
 
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