World news in brief
Three dead after plane crashes into roof
Three people died yesterday after an aircraft crashed into a residential building in Germany. The roof of the apartment building in the town of Wesel, in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, caught fire after the microlight plane crashed into it. Witnesses told local media that they had seen the aircraft collide with a hot-air balloon shortly before the crash, which also injured a child.
The victims are yet to be identified, according to local media reports. It is not known if the pilot is among them. The injured child is thought to have been living in one of the five apartments in the building, an official said. The city of Wesel is about 65km (40 miles) north of Dusseldorf.
Dozens captured after South Africa jail break
Scores of prisoners escaped a detention centre in South Africa after gaining control over guards and managing to make a run for it. While 63 inmates who were detained at Malmesbury Correctional Centre in the Western Cape have been recaptured, six are still currently on the run. The inmates, who are currently awaiting trial, escaped on Friday at around midday during their exercise session. The department of correctional services said: “The escapees overpowered officials, took the keys and locked three officials in a cell and opened other cells before escaping through the main entrance and over the roof.” The statement explained the centre, which is 41 miles along the west coast from Cape Town, had 451 offenders and 20 officials working at the time of the escape.
Thousands flood Manila baseball stadium
Thousands of Filipinos were crammed into a baseball stadium in Manila yesterday, breaking social distancing rules despite coronavirus risks, after people wanting to return to their home provinces flooded a government transportation programme. Officials had planned for 7,500 people to arrive at the stadium from Friday, but were caught out when another 2,000 people who were not yet scheduled to travel headed there anyway.
“Because of the overflowing number of people, we can no longer control [the situation] and the relevance of social distancing had been diminished,” assistant secretary Joseph Encabo, who is overseeing the government’s transportation assistance programme, told Reuters by phone. Police were deployed to urge social distancing, but people, including the elderly, children and pregnant women, were seen in close contact with each other. Some were not wearing masks.
Grimes tells Elon Musk ‘turn off your phone’
Grimes asked her partner Elon Musk to “stop” and to turn off his phone after he caused a backlash over his tweet that claimed: “Pronouns suck.” Grimes, who has a child with the Tesla chief executive, responded in a since-deleted tweet that said: “I love you but please turn off ur phone or give me a dall [sic]. “I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Grimes and Musk announced the birth of their child, X AE A-XII, in May this year. Before she gave birth, Grimes explained that she did not want to reveal the gender of their child. “I don’t want to say the gender of the baby… because I feel like their privacy should be protected,” Grimes said. “I don’t think they can consent to being famous or being in public.”