News18 Afternoon Digest: False Claims About ex-Pak Diplomat's Balakot Airstrike Admission, Body Parts Found After Indonesia Plane Crash and Other Top Stories

Fact-check: False Claims About ex-Pak Diplomat Admitting 300 Killed in Balakot Airstrike Several reports have claimed that a former diplomat from Pakistan admitted that as many as 300 terrorists had died in the Balakot airstrike conducted by India on February 26, 2019. Indonesia Plane Crash: Body Parts Found Off Jakarta Coast 12 Hours After Sriwijaya Air Plane Goes Down With 62 Onboard Indonesian rescuers pulled out body parts, pieces of clothing and scraps of metal from the Java Sea early Sunday morning, a day after a Boeing 737-500 with 62 people onboard crashed shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, officials said. Ten babies died after the fire broke out on Saturday at the Special Newborn Care Unit of the four-storeyed district hospital in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district town, about 900 km from the state capital Mumbai. Rioter Pictured in Deer Suit Surrenders, Tells FBI He Came to Capitol Hill at ‘President’s Request’ Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and a fur pelt, while a top Democratic lawmaker called on mobile carriers to preserve social media content related to the carnage.