German father, child presumed dead in canoe accident; Mother, daughter rescued

2 days, 17 hours ago

Greek authorities say boat capsizing victims and survivors were from Afghanistan. 2 Turks arrested

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s coast guard said Saturday it was searching for survivors or victims of a speedboat capsizing a day earlier involving migrants off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes. A total of 18 migrants — 12 men, three women and three minors — all Afghan nationals, were rescued, the coast guard said Saturday. Seven migrants were killed and …

Greece Involving Migrants

4 days, 14 hours ago

At least eight migrants drown after boat collision off Greece’s coast

Al Jazeera

Authorities say at least eight people died after the driver lost control of the boat as he attempted to flee. At least eight refugees and migrants have drowned off the coast of Greece after the coastguard chased a boat they were on in the Aegean Sea. The speedboat capsized near the island of Rhodes as it attempted to flee a …

Greece Boat Coast Rhodes Greek Authorities

1 week, 5 days ago

Rescue group saves 11-year-old girl floating alone in the Mediterranean for days after shipwreck

Associated Press

MILAN — An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, believed to be the only survivor of a shipwrecked migrant boat that had departed from the port of Sfax in Tunisia, a humanitarian group said Thursday. The girl was saved by a German-flagged sailboat named Trotamar III, which brought …

Mediterranean Boat Girl

1 week, 6 days ago

Hero 11-year-old girl dies trying to save 12-year-old boy who fell through icy lake in New York

The Independent

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2 weeks ago

Greek engineer, father of 3 killed, in Hague disaster “was in love with The Netherlands”

NL Times

One of the six people found dead after an explosion led to the partial collapse of an apartment building in The Hague was identified by family members as Vikel Kamperai a civil engineer living in the Netherlands for over two years. The loss of the affable, enthusiastic father who was so excited about building a life in the Netherlands has …

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2 weeks ago

Ryan Borgwardt: Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death and fled to Eastern Europe is in custody, online records show

CNN

Green Lake, Wisconsin AP — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children to go to Eastern Europe is in police custody, online records show. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green Lake County Jail on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Victim Information and Notification Everyday system, a service that provides information …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Desperate family of British couple missing after tourist yacht sank in Egypt plead for more information as search efforts continue following fatal disaster

Daily Mail

The family of a British couple missing after a tourist boat sank in the Red Sea a week ago have spoken of their ‘desperation’ for news. Jenny Cawson, 36, and her husband Tariq Sinada, 49, from Devon, are believed to be among seven people still unaccounted for after the Sea Story went down off the coast of Egypt in bad …

Family Egypt Red Boat Sea Her Husband Ms Cawson

3 weeks, 5 days ago

Woman killed in storm an “enormous loss,” says her hockey team

NL Times

The Lochemse Hockey Club and other locals in the Gelderland city are shocked by the death of 19-year-old Annemarijn Fett during storm Conall on Wednesday. The hockey club, to which the young woman belonged, will open its doors on Thursday evening for people to come together and pay tribute to Annemijn, calling her death an “enormous loss.” The young woman …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

A migrant boat sinks near the Greek island of Samos, killing 6 children and 2 adults

Associated Press

SAMOS, Greece — Eight people, including six children, died when a small boat carrying an unspecified number of migrants sank off the coast of the Greek island of Samos, officials said Monday. In a separate incident on a different island, an elderly man died as a group of 27 migrants made landfall in a small boat, the coast guard said. …

Greece Migrant Boat Coast Greek Migrants Six Children

4 weeks, 1 day ago

At least eight migrants drown in shipwreck off Greek island of Samos

Al Jazeera

Six children died in the disaster, while the police found 36 survivors alive on Samos and three people were rescued. Greece’s coast guard has found the bodies of eight migrants, including six children, who drowned off the island of Samos, authorities said, in the second migrant shipwreck in the Aegean Sea this month. Greek police found a further 36 people …

Europe Greece Greek Island Samos

1 month ago

Florida hammer-wielding killer mom drowned teen daughter in bathtub: Potential criminal charges revealed

Hindustan Times

A Florida woman has been accused of drowning her own 14-year-old daughter in a bathtub. Osceola County Sheriff announces details of an “armed disturbance” in a Florida home On Wednesday, November 20, Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez revealed in a news conference that officers responded to calls of an “armed disturbance” associated with Glover at a home in Poinciana. “Eventually, …

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1 month ago

Mother, young boys hospitalized after car flies off rural road, overturns in canal

NL Times

A 31-year-old woman and her two young children were hospitalized Friday morning after their car veered off the road, and landed upside-down in a watery canal. The three are from Nieuwendijk, just five kilometers west of where the accident happened on Poortweg, a rural road between the villages of Uitwijk and Almkerk, in the municipality of Altena, Noord-Brabant. It was …

Car Rural Road

1 month ago

Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death has resurfaced in Europe after elaborate plot

NPR

Wisconsin kayaker who faked his death has resurfaced in Europe after elaborate plot toggle caption Green Lake County Sheriff's Office via AP After a missing person's case baffled Wisconsin authorities for more than three months, the man who disappeared has finally come forward, saying he is alive and well. Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podoll said Thursday that his office …

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1 month, 1 week ago

"Body found on Valencia beach is that of Dutch flood victim"

Dutch News

A body found on a beach in Valencia is that of 53-year-old Dutch woman Silvani Lochi who was reported missing following the devastating floods, the AD and Telegraaf reported. The foreign affairs ministry has yet to confirm the news, which was made public on Facebook by Ramona Wijnands, a friend of the victim. Over 200 people died and at least …

Valencia Dutch Flood Lochi

1 month, 1 week ago

A missing Wisconsin kayaker was initially believed to have drowned. Officials say he faked his own death

CNN

CNN — Ryan Borgwardt, a married father of three, has been missing since August after leaving for a relaxing fishing trip on Green Lake, about an hour north of his home in Watertown, Wisconsin. “On October 7, I got my crew together – my three detectives and my chief deputy – and we talked, and we said, ‘We have got …

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Body of Dutch woman missing since Valencia floods found on beach

NL Times

The body of Dutch Silvana Lochi, who went missing during the first day of flooding in Spain, has been found, a friend confirmed on Facebook. “Sil,” as her friends called her, was found dead at the beach near Saler, another friend told the Telegraaf. The little bit of hope that was left is now also gone,” friend Ramona Wijnands wrote …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mother accidentally kills one-month-old baby girl and hides body in water tank in Bengaluru: Report

Hindustan Times

The tragic death of a one-month-old baby girl in Bengaluru’s Iggalur on Tuesday, has been confirmed as accidental, following a police investigation, The Hindu reported. Initially, a murder case was filed based on the mother’s complaint, but after a detailed probe, police concluded that the death was not deliberate, the report added. The Surya City police conducted a thorough investigation …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Bodies of woman, her three children found hanging inside hut in Bihar's Purnea, probe on

India TV News

In a tragic development, the bodies of a 32-year-old woman and her three children were found hanging inside their hut in Bihar's Purnea district, police said on Thursday. The officer said that the woman, and her three children – two boys and a girl – were found hanging with saris from a bamboo pole in their hut late on Wednesday. …

Bihar Woman Three Children Her Three Children

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Decapitated children horror: Police Taser mother found 'naked and singing in the street' after siblings aged one and four found beheaded in bathtub

Daily Mail

A woman in the island of Guadeloupe believed to have decapitated her two small children had to be Tasered by police and was admitted into a psychiatric hospital after she was found wandering the streets naked and singing. The children's father, who had just returned home from work, alerted emergency services, which was when police found the woman 'in a …

Children Her Daughter Guadeloupe

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Four die in Greece after smuggler allegedly forces passengers off boat

Al Jazeera

Twenty-five other people found alive on island of Rhodes after swimming to shore, according to the Greek coastguard. Authorities in Greece have recovered the bodies of four people from the sea just off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes while another 25 people have been found alive on land, the Greek coastguard says. Wednesday’s fatal incident comes …

Greece Rhodes Greek Island

Horror as father finds his baby and four-year-old child decapitated in his bathtub

Daily Mail

Two small children were found decapitated in a bathtub yesterday on the French island of Guadeloupe. The children's mother, who is the prime murder suspect, was found naked and wandering the streets by two police officers after the alarm was raised. Two small children were found decapitated in a bathtub yesterday on the French island of Guadeloupe The police have …

Child French Her Daughter

1 month, 2 weeks ago

1 dead after boat overturns off Redondo Beach. Child and captain among the rescued

LA Times

A boat carrying six people including a child overturned off Redondo Beach on Sunday, killing one man on board, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol received a distress call just after 1 p.m. reporting a boat had overturned and the people on board were in the water clinging to it. Harbor Patrol deputies …

Boat Redondo Beach

1 month, 4 weeks ago

After 38 Years, Woman's Body Finally Identified in Lake Pontchartrain

Associated Press

After 38 years, the body of a woman who was found floating in Lake Pontchartrain in 1986 has finally been identified. Pamela Lee Hupp, also known as Deborah Gail Justice, was born in 1958 and was pregnant at the time of her death. Her last known residence was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The circumstances surrounding her death remain under investigation, …

Law Crime Death Missing

2 months ago

Missing Children Found Alive in Kengeri Lake

Hindustan Times

Two bodies of children were recovered from Kengeri Lake in Bengaluru on Tuesday. The two children, Srinivas (13) and Mahalakshmi (11), went missing on Monday and were playing near the edge of the lake when they allegedly fell into it. The bodies of both children were discovered by their parents, and they have been handed over to their families. The …

Law Crime Death Water Bengaluru

2 months ago

Baby dies after migrant boat capsizes in Channel

The Independent

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

22-year-old out on picnic with family drowns in Zenith

Hindustan Times

Navi Mumbai: A 22-year-old woman out on an outing with her family members drowned in a waterfall in Maharashtra’s Raigad district during heavy rains on Wednesday. HT Image Seven members of the family, Three sisters, a brother, son-in-law and two children, from Khopoli had gone to the Zenith waterfall, about 70 km from Mumbai when the sudden surge in the …

Water Waterfall

3 months ago

Four children drown in lake near Arani in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu

Four children drowned in a lake at Adaiyapulam village near Arani town in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, on the evening of Tuesday, September 18, 2024. The police said the deceased have been identified as V. Dhanushka, 5, and V Karthiga, 8, daughters of the couple K. Vinayagam, 33, and V. Selvi, 29, who are agricultural labourers; and K. Mohan, 12, and …

Lake Near

3 months ago

Woman, 30, is killed after shark bites off her leg while she was on a British pleasure boat in the Canary Islands

Daily Mail

A woman has died after being attacked by a shark on a British-flagged catamaran as she was rushed to a hospital in the Canary Islands. The 30-year-old German lost her fight for life in a Spanish Air Force helicopter as she was being evacuated to a Gran Canaria hospital. She was officially pronounced dead after arriving at Doctor Negrin Hospital …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Picture emerges of flimsy boat that led to death of eight migrants and leaves 10-month-old baby in hospital

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Abducted 12-year-old raped and impregnated, dies after giving birth in Ludhiana

Hindustan Times

Abducted from the city around 11 months ago, a 12-year-old girl died days after giving birth. The accused on September 1 took the 12-year-old her and newborn to his sister’s house in Ludhiana, where she died three days later. Sadar police station house officer inspector Harshveer Singh said the initial probe found that the minor gave birth to a baby …

Accused His Daughter Ludhiana Abducted

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Migrant boat seen trying to make crossing of English Channel a day after 12 people died

The Independent

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English Migrant French Crossing Email Channel Died

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Body of teenager, 19, pulled out of sea after swimming with friends in Netherlands

The Independent

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerala: Sea of anguish at Muthalapozhi

New Indian Express

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Men in our families go out to sea risking their lives to put food on the table. They return to us lifeless,” laments 42-year-old Sofira, whose two children perished in a tragic boat accident at the infamous Muthalapozhi Harbour. It’s been two years since Sofira lost 18-year-old Mohammad Musthafa and 20-year-old Mohammad Usman, in one of the most tragic …

Sea Sofira

4 months ago

Italian prosecutors announce manslaughter inquiry after sinking of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's family superyacht

ABC

Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation over the sinking of Mike Lynch's family superyacht Bayesian off the Sicily coast on Monday. Claims emergency procedures were not followed The boat's maker has since blamed the shipwreck on "indescribable, unreasonable errors" by the crew. Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the superyacht's manufacturing company Italian Sea Group, said there were no structural problems …

Italian British Mike Mike Lynch Superyacht Bayesian Cammarano

4 months ago

Baby among at least 10 people who drowned after migrant boat overturned on Serbia-Bosnia border

Associated Press

BRATUNAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A boat carrying migrants from the Middle East overturned while crossing the Drina River from Serbia to Bosnia, drowning at least 10 people, officials in the two Balkan countries said Thursday. Dacic initially said 18 migrants, including three children, managed to cross into Bosnia, out of 25 people who were in the boat when it overturned. “The …

Migrant Bosnia Serbia Dacic

4 months ago

Manufacturer of superyacht that sank in Sicily with 22 aboard says human error to blame

ABC

The body of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreckage of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, as the boat's maker blamed the shipwreck on "indescribable, unreasonable errors" by the crew. Others reported missing from the yacht include the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, Mr Bloomer's wife Judy, Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo …

Water Italian Yacht

4 months ago

Friesland skipper saved 15 people in "traumatic" Sicily rescue

Dutch News

The Friesland-based skipper who saved 15 people from the luxury yacht which capsized in a storm near Sicily on Monday said he “didn’t think, but did what was necessary”. We found a life raft with 15 people on it, four of them badly injured, and a baby,” Börner told the broadcaster. The yacht, chartered by UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, …

Lynch 15 People Bayesian Friesland Börner

4 months ago

Friesland skipper saved 15 people in "traumatic" Sicily rescue

Dutch News

The Friesland-based skipper who saved 15 people from the luxury yacht which capsized in a storm near Sicily on Monday said he “didn’t think, but did what was necessary”. We found a life raft with 15 people on it, four of them badly injured, and a baby,” Börner told the broadcaster. The yacht, chartered by UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, …

Lynch 15 People Bayesian Friesland Börner

4 months ago

British mother’s baby rescued from waters after superyacht capsizes off Italian coast

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Two drownings in one day: Toddler died in Heerhugowaard, British teen near Amsterdam

NL Times

Two children drowned in the Netherlands on Sunday. And a 14-year-old British boy drowned in the Buiten-IJ near Amsterdam. A bystander saw the toddler lying motionless in the recreational lake in the Heerhugowaard park at around 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, NH Nieuws reported. Bystanders began resuscitating her while they waited for the emergency services, including first aid workers from the …

Heerhugowaard British

5 months, 1 week ago

Three children drown in lakes near Tiruvalam and Vellore towns

The Hindu

Three children, including a pair of siblings, died in two separate incidents after they drowned in lakes near Tiruvalam and Vellore towns in Vellore district on Saturday, July 13, 2024. According to police, agricultural labourer S. Venkatesan and his wife V. Devi, were residing in Periya Ramanathapuram village near Tiruvalam town in Vellore with their children Raja and Sreesanth, studying …

Raja Lake Vellore Vellore Town V Sreesanth Near Tiruvalam

5 months, 1 week ago

4-month-old baby dies from heat-related illness while on boat with family in 121-degree heat

The Independent

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A four-month-old baby died during the July 4 holiday weekend from heat-related illness after being …

Family Independent Baby Died

5 months, 1 week ago

Detectives probing parents of baby who died 'of heat exposure' on lake

Daily Mail

Detectives are probing the parents of a baby girl who died after they took her boating on an Arizona lake during a 120F heatwave. Mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Tanna's death, with mom Alyssa Wroblewski telling DailyMail.com they are still struggling to make sense of what happened. The family quickly started CPR on the infant before the Lake …

Family Heat Tanna

5 months, 1 week ago

Baby girl dies after boating in Lake Havasu on 120-degree day; investigation launched

LA Times

Lake Havasu, seen on a cooler evening in the spring of 2022, was under an excessive heat warning on July 5, when a 4-month-old girl died after a boating excursion. The 4-month-old fell unconscious shortly after 5 p.m. July 5 while on a boat on Lake Havasu — a reservoir straddling the state line between Mohave County and California’s San …

Heat California Department Girl Lake Baby Girl Tanna

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Baby on Boat! Celebrations begin after Assam mother delivers newborn on moving craft amid floods I VIDEO

India TV News

A blue tarp shielded a mother and her newborn daughter from the relentless rain during their boat voyage. Image Source : AP Jahanara Khatoon, who is at full-term pregnancy, lies in pain with onset of labour as health officers hold a tarpaulin to give her cover, over the River Brahmaputra Image Source : APA member of a medical team holds …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka: Two children die after drowning in lake, parents hospitalised

Hindustan Times

Two children of a family died after drowning in Nandrolli Lake in this district on Saturday. The incident happened under Kollur Police station limits in Kundapur taluka in Betala village in the district. According to the police, their parents, Sheela and Satish Madiwala, who tried to rescue them and barely survived from drowning, are in critical condition in a local …

Kundapur

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Young woman, 24, dies in horror tubing crash in Portland as her friend watched in horror while the driver 'took a turn so fast she was flung into another boat'

Daily Mail

A boat driver killed a young woman by turning too fast and slamming her into another vessel while she was tubing, her friend claims. Kaileigh Seidel, 24, died on June 22 from injuries she suffered in the collision on the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon She claimed Seidel was pleading with the person helming the boat to slow down and …

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6 months, 1 week ago

64 people missing and many rescued from 2 shipwrecks off Italy. At least 11 have died

Associated Press

ROME — Sixty-four people were missing in the Mediterranean Sea and several were rescued after their ship wrecked off Italy’s southern coast Monday, United Nations’ agencies said in a statement. In a separate shipwreck, rescue workers evacuated dozens of suspected migrants but found 10 bodies trapped below the deck of a wooden boat off Italy’s tiny Lampedusa island, the German …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Bihar: 5 feared drowned as boat capsizes in Ganga, 12 rescued

Hindustan Times

Patna: At least five people are feared drowned after a boat carrying 17 passengers capsized at river Ganga’s Umantha ghat under Barh sub-division of Patna district in Bihar, officials said. A boat carrying 17 people capsized at Umantha ghat in Bihar Officials said several teams, including the State Disaster Response Force, began their operations and rescued 12 people. The incident …

Rescue Bihar Boat Sdrf Ganga Barh

6 months, 1 week ago

Trying to save minor girl, 20-yr-old drowns in Gomti

Hindustan Times

A 20-year-old auto-driver drowned while trying to save a minor girl who tried to commit suicide by jumping into the Gomti, in the Madeyganj area of Lucknow, in the wee hours of Wednesday. For representation only “While the girl was saved and is undergoing treatment at a hospital, the man who jumped into the river to save the 15-year-old, died. …

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