Mar. 16, 2025
At least seven people were killed in an avalanche that struck India’s northeastern state of Sikkim on Tuesday.
According to theAssociated Press, the Indian army said that at least 23 tourists were rescued and 11 injured after the avalanche hit them as they traveled near the Nathu La mountain pass between Sikkim and Tibet.
PerReuters, eight of the rescued are listed in critical condition.
“We are doing one more check before calling off the rescue operation since it is getting dark and some more snow has started coming down,” senior police official Tenzing Loden Lepcha told the outlet.
Mar. 16, 2025
Seven people were killed, including a 7-year-old child, after gunmen stormed a water park at a resort in central Mexico on Saturday.
The incident occurred at around 4:30 p.m., authorities said, when armed men began shooting at random at the La Palma resort in Cortázar, Guanajuato.
The state attorney general’s office said in a statement that three men, three women, and a male child were killed. Another person was injured in the shooting and transported to a local hospital.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: GettySeven people in San Diego have died in just the last two months after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria that is associated with black tar heroin use, the County of San Diego Communications OfficeannouncedWednesday.Between Oct. 2 and Nov. 24, nine people who injected black tar heroin were admitted to hospitals in San Diego County with severe myonecrosis, a bacterial infection that destroys muscle and damages soft tissue.Seven of the nine patients died, the agency said.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo:AP Photo/Charles Krupa
AP Photo/Charles Krupa
The primary suspect in a string of 1982 murders in Chicago that resulted from Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide died on Monday.
James Lewis, was found unresponsive on Sunday just after 4 p.m. and was pronounced dead shortly after at the age of 76, police in Cambridge, Mass., told PEOPLE in a statement.
Though he was never charged for the deaths, Lewis was arrested in New York City in 1982 for sending a ransom letter to Tylenol manufacturer Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million in exchange to “stop the killing,” according to theAssociated Press.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: World Animal Protection
World Animal Protection; Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas
One serval kitten, named Sammy, was near death and needed immediate subcutaneous fluids to survive. Fortunately, the operation was thoroughly planned during the week leading up to the cats’ seizure in order to guarantee both the safety of the animals and the heroic human team.
World Animal Protection
World Animal Protection U.S.’s Exotic Pets Campaign Manager, Kelly Donithan, was on the premises for the cats’ seizure, as well as during the veterinary exams, and traveled with the animals to their new sanctuary homes.