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HARROWING footage shows a man being beaten to death yesterday by an angry lynch mob who were fuelled by rumours of a child snatching gang prowling the area. Filmed in Bengaluru, in southern India, the disturbing clip shows the blood-splattered victim, 26, being tied up and beaten with iron rods and cricket bats. The lynch mob, which included two children and women, is shown kicking and punching the man who reportedly died in hospital from his injuries. According to local media, the victim had his hands and feet tied with a rope by two lads who dragged him through the streets. The man was spotted talking to kids in the Bakshi Garden neighbourhood and allegedly offering them sweets, reports The News Minute. A viral WhatApp message, which claimed there was a child lifting gang in the area, is believed to have contributed to the violent scenes. Witness Rajesh said: “The man was giving the children some chocolates and sweets and trying to take them away with him.” He said … [Read more...] about Horrifying moment man, 26, is battered to death with cricket bats after rumours of a child snatching gang sweeps Indian market

A DEVASTATING fire which ripped through the Grenfell tower block in West London left 71 people dead and hundreds homeless. Investigations and recovery operations took months and an inquest continues following the blaze, which broke out in the early hours of June 14, 2017. Here's what we know... How many people died in the Grenfell Tower fire? Police revealed in November 2017, more than five months after the fire, that 71 people had died including a stillborn baby. The first victims were named as Syrian refugee Mohammed Al Haj Ali, 23, and artist Khadija Saye, 24. A public inquiry into the cause and spread of the fire officially opened on September 14, 2017 - exactly three months on from the inferno. Recently retired lord justice of appeal, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, was appointed to lead the Grenfell Tower public inquiry. The 70-year-old hopes to produce an interim report by Easter 2018. On September 19, police revealed they were considering pursuing individual manslaughter … [Read more...] about Grenfell Tower victims – how many people died in the London fire in June 2017?

THE devastated family of a four-year-old girl found dead at home have paid tribute - as her mum is charged with murder. Carly Harris, 37, was quizzed by cops after the discovery of Amelia Brooke Harris' body in Rhondda, South Wales. She will appear at Merthyr Magistrates' Court tomorrow charged with murder. In a statement released by South Wales Police, the little girl's family said: "On Friday night we tragically lost our baby girl Amelia Brooke Harris. "A loving daughter, sister, granddaughter, great granddaughter, niece and cousin. "Amelia was beautiful both inside and out - and was a fun-loving, caring and bubbly little girl. "She was taken far too early from us and had her whole life ahead of her. "Words cannot convey how we are feeling at this moment in time. "We know our lives will never be the same again." Officers were called at around 10.20pm on Friday and Amelia was declared dead at the scene. The road around their family home in the former mining village has now been … [Read more...] about Family pay tribute to ‘fun-loving, caring and bubbly’ Amelia Brooke Harris, 4, found dead as mum charged with murder

THE US and the world have been left in shock following the latest tragedy to blight America. Five died in Maryland after a gunman reduced the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper to a "warzone" in what the Gun Violence Archive says is the 154th mass shooting this year. Here are the deadliest attacks of all time... What happened in the Maryland shooting? Five people were shot dead on June 28, 2018, after a gunman blasted his way through a newspaper office in Maryland. Jarrod W Ramos, 38, was arrested after a revenge attack on the Capital Gazette in Annapolis at about 2.40pm. Reporters tweeted desperately for help as they hid under their desks while the shooter went on a murderous rampage with a shotgun and "explosives". Several more were injured as the attacker blasted through a glass window and chucked smoke grenades, with one reporter describing the scene as a "warzone". Police found the suspect under a desk, and said that he mutilated his fingers in an attempt to make it harder … [Read more...] about What are the deadliest mass shootings in US history? From the Las Vegas attack to the Columbine massacre

PARIS — French Director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9½-hour masterpiece “Shoah” bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish bystanders, has died at the age of 92. Gallimard, the publishing house for Lanzmann’s autobiography, said he died Thursday morning at a hospital in Paris. It gave no further details. The power of “Shoah,” filmed in the 1970s during Lanzmann’s trips to the barren Polish landscapes where the slaughter of Jews was planned and executed, was in viewing the Holocaust as an event in the present, rather than as history. It contained no archival footage, no musical score — just the landscape, trains and recounted memories. Lanzmann was 59 when the movie, his second, came out in 1985. It defined the Holocaust for those who saw it, and defined him as a filmmaker. “I knew that the subject of the film would be death itself. Death rather than … [Read more...] about Director of Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah’, Claude Lanzmann, dies