Three die as dinghy carrying migrants hits rocks
Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos yesterday after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of
Turkey hit rocks in high winds, authorities said.
The coast guard said the three bodies were recovered off the eastern coast of the island, adding that a rescue effort involving two patrol boats, a helicopter and ground crews was underway to search for others possibly missing.
None of the people on the dinghy had been given life jackets.
The tragedy in the eastern Aegean Sea occurred two days after four children and a woman died when a boat carrying more than 40 migrants smashed into rocks on island of Leros.
Washington: Someone in Washington state overcame steep odds on Monday night to win more than a massive Powerball lottery jackpot.
The winning numbers were 05, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball 07.
Lottery officials said in a statement early yesterday that a single ticket matched all six numbers and was worth $754.6 million (£621m).
The full jackpot is for a winner opting for an annuity distributed in one immediate but partial payout followed by additional payments over 29 years that increase by 5 per cent annually.
The winner also can opt for a one-time cash payment of $407.2m (£338m).
Both prizes available are the amounts before taxes are deducted, Powerball said.
Phop Phra: An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft yesterday – 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand.
Rescuers clapped and cheered as the toddler, the daughter of migrant workers from Myanmar, was pulled out of the 15-metre deep well shaft and placed on a stretcher and carried to a waiting ambulance.
“Great job, guys. We did it!” exclaimed one rescuer as his colleagues in Tak province’s Phop Phra district wept and hugged each other.
The child fell into the hole late on Monday afternoon while her parents were working at the plantation.
The deep pit, dug by the landowner to be an artesian well, had been left uncovered after it failed to strike groundwater, Phop Phra district chief Sanya Phetset told Thairath TV.
Seoul: A man in South Korea has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing a female colleague who had reported him for stalking and harassment.
The case sparked an outcry and calls for legal reform in South Korea, after police failed to act adequately on the victim’s repeated complaints.
Jeon Joo-hwan, 31, was convicted of stabbing the woman to death in a subway restroom in central Seoul last year.
A Seoul court yesterday said it had been a “revenge killing”.
Jeon, a subway worker, had become obsessed with his 28-year-old female co-worker, stalking and threatening her over two years, the court heard.
He called his colleague more than 300 times, begging her to date him and threatening to harm her if she refused.
Despite a police investigation, he was never imprisoned or given a restraining order.