The number of deaths during this year’s hajj pilgrimage totalled 1,301 people, Saudi Arabia’s health minister Fahad Al-Jalajel said on Sunday. The minister, quoted by state television, said that deaths were caused by pilgrims “walking long distances under direct sunlight without adequate shelter or comfort”. Fatalities also included a number of elderly people and those suffering […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the North African country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the country’s minister of religious affairs after 49 Tunisian pilgrims were confirmed dead in the annual Islamic Hajj in Saudi Arabia amid scorching heat. Saied has decided to terminate Ibrahim Chaibi’s tasks, Tunisia’s official news agency TAP reported on Friday, quoting a presidential statement that did not give an […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests. Among many faith leaders nationwide, the pain unleashed on June 20, 2022 — when the Revs. Javier Campos Morales, 79, and […]
The step-son of Malawi’s ex-President Peter Mutharika has been acquitted of all charges in a case in which he was accused of human trafficking and aggravated manslaughter. Tadikira Mafubza and seven other men were arrested in November 2022 after police said they were linked with the deaths of 29 suspected Ethiopian immigrants whose bodies were […]
Jun. 19—MOORHEAD — While significant progress has been made over the 20-year course of Minnesota’s Toward Zero Deaths program, the number of crashes and fatal crashes in recent years shows a worrying shift, traffic safety experts say. Started in 2003, the Toward Zero Deaths program works to reduce the number of traffic crashes, injuries and […]
Lois Randall died May 22 crossing a busy stretch of Liberty Street in north Salem in her motorized chair, becoming the 14th traffic fatality in Salem in 2024. The 70-year-old’s death also marked the point the city surpassed the number of traffic fatalities for the entirety of 2023. With six more months to go, 2024 […]
This article was first published by Source New Mexico. To read more visit https://sourcenm.com/. If not for systemic failures in medical and mental health care, almost all of the people who died in immigration detention in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021 could still be alive today, according to a report. U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
Coalition demands investigation into jail deaths after controversial cell video is released Members of a jail watchdog group are demanding that county commissioners open an investigation into a series of deaths and conditions at the Montgomery County Jail. This comes after a video surfaced showing a 19-year-old inmate hours before he died. The Montgomery County […]
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Three men drowned in Guatemala when two of them tried to help another who had tried to cross an overflowing river, as heavy rains caused death and destruction across Central America, authorities said Tuesday. The three fatalities on Monday were the latest in a series of deaths caused by heavy rains […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — There were seven confirmed overdose deaths in the Town of Tonawanda, the City of Lackawanna and the City of Buffalo areas on Monday, according to the Erie County Department of Health. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office suspects that the deaths are linked to a “particularly lethal form of fentanyl.” Preliminary reports […]
At least five people have died in heavy rains, flooding and resulting landslides around the city of Meizhou in China’s Guangdong province, and a further four people in Wuping in south-eastern Fujian province, state television reported on Tuesday. In Meizhou, contact was lost to a 15 people and another 13 were cut off by water […]