Category: DEATH

Spanish Toddler Dies After Being Hit by Giant Hailstone

MADRID—A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday. Fist-sized hailstones up to 10 centimetres (4 inches) in diameter rained down on Tuesday on an area around the village of La Bisbal d’Emporda. They caused injuries—mostly broken bones and…


Deaths From Flooding in Monsoon Drenched Pakistan Near 1,000

ISLAMABAD—Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said Saturday. The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic nation. The monsoon…


Anne Heche’s Death Ruled Accidental After Fiery Car Crash

LOS ANGELES—Actor Anne Heche died from inhalation injury and burns after her fiery car crash and the death was ruled an accident, according to coroner’s results released Wednesday. Heche, 53, also had a fractured sternum caused by “blunt trauma,” according to information on the website of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner. A full autopsy…


Germany: 1 Dead After Self-Driving BMW Veers Into Traffic

BERLIN—Police in Germany said Tuesday that one person has died and nine were seriously injured after a self-driving test car veered into oncoming traffic, triggering a series of collisions involving four vehicles Monday afternoon. A spokesman for police in the southwestern town of Reutlingen said the electric BMW iX with five people on board, including…


Community Demands Answers Over Girl’s Death in London Gas Explosion

A young girl killed in a gas explosion in south London has been named locally as Sahara Salman as the community demanded answers over her “unnecessary” death. Sahara, who was four-years-old, died after a terraced house collapsed in Galpin’s Road, Thornton Heath, shortly after 7am on Monday. Three other people were also seriously injured in…


Superman: The Mummy Strikes (1943)

While investigating an egyptologist’s mysterious death, Superman must battle dangerous mummies. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: truthsocial.com/@EpochTV…


Watching Al-Qaeda Chief’s ‘Pattern of Life’ Key to His Death

WASHINGTON—As the sun was rising in Kabul on Sunday, two Hellfire missiles fired by a U.S. drone ended Ayman al-Zawahri’s decade-long reign as the leader of Al-Qaeda. The seeds of the audacious counterterrorism operation had been planted over many months. U.S. officials had built a scale model of the safe house where al-Zawahri had been…


Spain Reports 2nd Monkeypox-Related Death in Europe

MADRID—Spain reported its second monkeypox-related death on Saturday, in what is thought to be Europe’s second death from the disease and only the third outside of Africa in the current outbreak. Spain had reported its first death as recently as Friday, shortly after Brazil reported the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the…


Ontario Hospitals Mourn Sudden Deaths of 3 Doctors

Hospitals in Ontario are mourning three doctors in the Greater Toronto Area who suddenly died within four days over the past week. “Dr. Jakub Sawicki, Dr. Stephen McKenzie, and Dr. Lorne Segall were respected physicians who dedicated their lives to caring for their patients and community,” Trillium Health Partners said in a statement on social media….


3 Ontario Doctors Die Suddenly Within Days of Each Other

Hospitals in Ontario are mourning three doctors in the Greater Toronto Area who suddenly died within days of each other over the past week. “Dr. Jakub Sawicki, Dr. Stephen McKenzie, and Dr. Lorne Segall were respected physicians who dedicated their lives to caring for their patients and community,” Trillium Health Partners said in a statement on…