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India: Three die as kite string slits their throats Saanchi Goyal, 3, and Harry, 4, were looking out through the sunroof of their cars in different parts of Delhi when sharp strings slit their throats. Zafar Khan, 22, died in the same manner when he was riding his motorbike. Glass-coated strings are used to bring down competitors’ kites, but they also end up injuring and killing people. Many Indians fly kites to celebrate festivals and important occasions like the Independence Day, which is celebrated on 15 August. But every year, there are reports of people dying or getting wounded from the kite strings - locally known as manja - treated with powdered glass or metal to sharpen them. Similar strings killed a five-year-old boy in 2015 in the northern town of Moradabad, and a five-year-old girl died in Jaipur in 2014.
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Three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slit by glass-coated strings used for flying kites on India’s Independence Day.
Ryan Lochte and James Feigen ordered to stay in Brazil A judge in Brazil has issued an order preventing US swimmers Ryan Lochte and James Feigen from leaving the country after police queried their evidence in a robbery case. Lochte, Feigen and two other members of the US swimming team said they had been robbed at gunpoint in a taxi in Rio. But police say their account of when they arrived at the Olympic village does not square with CCTV recordings. Lochte’s lawyer told the BBC on Wednesday that he was now in the US. The swimmer’s Twitter account shows footage of him arriving back in the United States on Monday, Lochte is one of the most successful swimmers in history, with 12 Olympic medals and he once had his own reality television show in the US. In Rio, he swam in two events, winning gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Feigen, who told the San Antonio Express he is still in Brazil, won gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay.
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California wildfire: 80,000 evacuated east of Los Angeles A rapidly moving wildfire has forced the evacuation of some 82,000 people in San Bernardino County, just east of Los Angeles, officials say. The blaze broke out on Tuesday in a mountain pass and has already engulfed about 15,000 acres (6,070 ha) of land. Tens of thousands of homes are at risk from the so-called Bluecut fire. A state of emergency has been declared. Another fire, the Clayton, which broke out on Saturday in northern California, has destroyed 175 homes. ‘Raining ash’ The Bluecut fire spread with great speed in the parched canyons around San Bernardino. At least a dozen buildings have already been engulfed. US Forest Service spokeswoman Lyn Sieliet said: “It is a very fast-moving fire, it has wind behind it.” California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County to bring in federal assistance. The blaze forced the closure of a stretch of Interstate 15, the main road between Las Vegas and Los Angeles area. Some 700 firefighters are battling to control the blaze in the Cajon Pass. Its cause remains unknown.
US police catch Cuban fugitive known as The Ghost after 26 years on the run Police in Florida on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Cuban fugitive who had been on the run for 26 years, earning himself the nickname The Ghost. Anibal Mustelier, 66, was detained in Hialeah, near Miami, on charges of armed robbery and grand theft. He is also suspected of having worked as a contract killer, officials say. Police say they were led to Mr Mustelier by an informant who had knowledge about a jewellery theft on 7 August which allegedly involved him. Big fish US Marshalls first issued an arrest warrant for Mr Mustelier in 1990. Hialeah Police Sergeant Carl Zogby said arresting officers had not at first realised who they had in their custody because Mr Mustelier had given them a false name. “We went fishing for a grouper, and we caught ourselves a whale,” Sgt Zogby said, adding that Mr Mustelier had become known as The Ghost for his ability to hide in plain sight. “He was an international fugitive from ATF [Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], FBI and the US Marshals.” Sgt Zogby said Mr Mustelier was wanted for his alleged participation in two murder attempts in 1989 and 1990, during the heyday of the Miami drug wars, when rival drug dealers fought over control of the city.
Son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman kidnapped in Mexico They say Jesus Alfredo Guzman, 29, was one of six members of the Sinaloa Cartel seized by members of a rival gang, Jalisco New Generation. The incident took place at a restaurant in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. Chapo Guzman, who is in jail, led the Sinaloa Cartel for years. Jesus Alfredo is suspected to be a senior member.
A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was among suspected criminals abducted in a Pacific coast city on Monday, officials say.
He is wanted on drugs charges by the US. The US also wants Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be extradited to the US on charges of smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the country. He was recaptured in January, six months after escaping through a 1.6km (one-mile) tunnel from his maximum-security prison cell. Cartel war warning The six suspected gang
members were abducted at La Leche restaurant in the early hours of Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco state. State Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer told reporters that forensic evidence collected at the scene had confirmed Jesus Alfredo Guzman’s abduction. He added that four of the six kidnapped people had already been identified, without providing further details.