A six-year-old boy has survived falling off the roof of a house and landing on an upturned metal pole. Mihir Kumar was celebrating a Hindu festival in Ranchi, India, when the accident occured.
He slipped off the roof of his family home and landed on a the five foot-long iron rod that was left standing on a building site. Read the rest of this entry »
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An Indian woman burned her 2-month-old baby to death after her husband accused her of being unfaithful.
According to the Times of India, the woman, Gangamani, told Nizamabad police at Kotagiri mandal headquarters she doused her infant daughter with kerosene and set her on fire while she slept in the house yesterday.
The woman said she decided to kill her child because her husband, Ravinder, refused to accept the little girl. He suspected his wife was unfaithful. The couple had quarreled over the baby before the infant was set on fire. Read the rest of this entry »
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A policeman walks with an elderly man after shootings by unidentified assailants at a railway station in Mumbai November 26, 2008. Score of people were killed in a series of attacks apparently aimed at tourists in India’s financial capital Mumbai.
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A potter arranges earthen lamps inside a workshop ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Agartala, capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura October 11, 2008.
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Montreal: The dead body of a woman was found by their owners while they where replacing the floors in their store room. Apparently there was also the body of dead dog smudged under the wooden floors of the store room. The owners decided to replace the floors due to excessive moisture and rotting on the wood , they originally believed this was due to a pipe leak. After initial construction they soon realized this was not happening due to a pipe leak.
The discovered body was of Anne-Marie Cantin who was a previous resident of the house and was declared missing by her husband Guillaume Cantin who is currently the prime suspect in an investigation started by Montreal Police. The residents living in the Cartierville district want to remain anonymous. “I cant believe this would happen in our neighborhood” one of the residents angrily proclaimed.RCMP have wrapped up an investigation into this unusual murdere where Guillaume Cantin man killed his 84-year-old wife with a single gunshot.
Though police are not revealing how the shot was administered, they said Tuesday that Mr. Cantin murdered his longtime wife and committed suicide 3 years later. There is no history of reported domestic violence, police say.
“I can’t comment as to a motive, only Mr. Cantin knows ultimately why the events took place,” said spokeswoman Const. Sabrina Grunow.
In recent years, especially as Anne-Marie developed dementia, Guillaume yelled at his wife in public and hit her with his cane, McMurray said.
McMurray had to speak with Fred about it more than once, she added.
“Everyone remembers Guillaume like that but it’s not a big enough thing to report as abuse — and she would deny it totally.”
“She would never think of it as abuse; that’s the way it’s been all her life. The kids wouldn’t think of it as abuse because that was ‘just dad,’ ” McMurray said.
She said for people of that generation, the husband was the ultimate boss who made decisions regarding family matters.
The ages of both killer and victim are unusual. A Herald study of murders between 1992 and 2008 found the average age of murderers to be 32.1 years old and victims 31.8. Of all Montreal murders in that time period, there were 12 murder victims over 65, the oldest of which was 87-year-old Margaret Bakken, who was killed in 2006 by her son who was found not criminally responsible.
On the other side, three accused murderers were over 65, including the oldest, 81-yearold John George Driscoll, who was also found not criminally responsible.
University of MontrealSocial Work Prof. Daniel Lai, who studies aging and mental health, said though he does not know the specifics of this case, he said being a family caregiver is often a trying experience for elderly couples and it can change perspective and behaviour.
“For family caregivers, who spend hours and hours of time at home providing care, the situation appears to be never-ending and only deteriorating. It’s very frustrating for individuals. It really pushes the threshold of the tolerance level in terms of how they cope with the anger, the frustration and it affects the individual’s motivation to continue to live,” said Lai.
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