Aliyah Jaico, eight, dies after being ‘violently sucked’ into hotel swimming pool pipes in Texas
An eight-year-old girl died after being “violently sucked” into piping at a hotel swimming pool, her family has said. Aliyah Jaico had been enjoying a dip with her family at the DoubleTree hotel in Houston, Texas, when the tragedy happened on Saturday 23 March. Lawyers representing the family said she was in the “lazy river […]
University of Missouri student Riley Strain found dead in river two weeks after disappearance
A student has been found dead in a river two weeks after he was reported missing. University of Missouri student Riley Strain, 22, was last seen in a bar in Nashville, Tennessee, which he was visiting with his fraternity house, just before 10pm on 8 March. Police officials in the state capital, who previously said […]
Three dead and five in critical condition after hangar collapses at Boise Airport in Idaho
An airport hangar under construction on an airfield in Idaho has collapsed killing three people. Nine others were injured in the incident which happened at around 5pm on Wednesday on the grounds of Boise Airport, officials said. Five of the injured are in a critical condition and receiving care at local hospitals. Boise Fire Department, […]
Three soldiers dead and one injured as two US army helicopters crash in Alaska
Two of the soldiers died at the scene, with the third dying while on the way to hospital. A fourth soldier is being treated in hospital for injuries following the crash on Thursday, which involved two AH-64 Apache helicopters returning from a training flight in the Healy region of the northwestern state. The soldiers’ identities […]
Cruise ship passenger’s body was kept in drinks cooler for almost a week, lawsuit claims
A Florida widow and her family are suing a cruise line for allegedly mishandling her husband’s dead body and storing it in a drinks cooler after he died on board a ship. Robert Jones’ body was stored inside a walk-in cooler normally used for drinks for nearly a week instead of a properly chilled morgue […]
American volunteer fighter died in Ukraine, family says
A US citizen died while volunteering in the fighting in Ukraine Friday, his family told CNN. Edward Wilton, 22, of Florida, had been in Ukraine for nearly a year at the time of his death, his half-brother Parker Cummings told CNN by phone Wednesday. The US Embassy told the family of his death Monday, Cummings […]
More than 30 dead in fire at migration center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
At least 39 people died in a fire at a migration center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities said that the fire in the office of the National Institute of Migration (INM) occurred after they picked up some 71 migrants from the streets of the city. Although the […]
7 of the dead after boat capsized in San Diego County came from Mexico
The Mexican Consulate in San Diego said at least 7 of the 8 migrants killed Saturday when their boat capsized near Black’s Beach in La Jolla, in San Diego County, California, came from Mexico. “Based on the identifications that some carried, it is presumed that seven of these people are nationals of Mexico, coming from […]
