Category: Lifestyle

A swimmer died after being bitten by a shark at a beach in suburban Sydney, Australian authorities said, marking the first fatal shark attack in the city in nearly 60 years.

An eyewitness told local television that he had been fishing off nearby rocks when he saw a man wearing a wetsuit and swimming across the bay get dragged underwater by a large shark in an attack that lasted several seconds.

“Some guy was swimming and a shark came and attacked him vertically,” witness Kris Linto, told Nine.

“We heard a yell and turned around — it looked like a car had landed in the water, a big splash, then the shark was chomping at the body and there was blood everywhere.”

Another witness estimated the shark was 4.5 metres in size.

“When he went down, there were so many splashes,” the witness, who had been fishing on rocks nearby, told ABC.

It was the first fatal shark attack in Sydney since 1963, data shows.

Lifeguards will patrol the beaches looking for further shark sightings.

Emergency services arrived in the area of Buchan Point, Malabar, around 4:35pm local time on Wednesday, following a report of a shark attacking a swimmer in the water, according to New South Wales police. Officers found human remains in the water.

“Officers attached to Eastern Beaches Police Area Command, with assistance from the Marine Area Command and Surf Life Saving NSW, attended and located human remains in the water,” it said.

An NSW Ambulance spokeswoman said paramedics were called to Little Bay. “Unfortunately, this patient had suffered catastrophic injuries and there was nothing paramedics could do.”

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that the government will challenge the Lahore High Court’s verdict of acquitting Waseem Azeem. Waseem Azeem was convicted of Qadeel’s murder in 2016.

Chaudhry, while talking in a Geo News programme, said the government has told the judiciary to consider it [Qandeel’s acqutiall] as a ‘wake-up call’. He further said that the government will challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court.

He also requested the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to take action against the judge who took the decision of the acquittal.

The Multan Bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) acquitted Waseem Azeem on Feburary 14. Waseem is also Qandeel’s brother. The verdict was announced on the basis of an agreement between the parties and on retraction of statements recorded by the witnesses.

Qandeel’s lawyer Safdar Abbas Shah, while talking to BBC Urdu, said that he had submitted a letter of consent from Qandeel’s parents that they have no objection if the court acquits Waseem. He further said that Waseem has now said that he did not murder Qandeel and police took the confessional statement by threatening him.

Qandeel Baloch, a social media star, was strangled to death in Multan in July 2016 and her brothers Waseem Azeem and Aslam Shaheen were accused of murdering her. A model court in Multan sentenced her brother Waseem Azeem to life in prison for murdering his sister. Life imprisonment means 25 years in jail.

The water flowing through River Ravi has been found to be among the most polluted in the world, reports Dawn.

A study, which is part of the University of York-led Global Monitoring of Pharmaceuticals Project, measured the presence of 61 pharmaceuticals in 258 rivers around the world. More than 1,000 test sites in over 100 countries provided samples for the study. More than a quarter of the 258 rivers sampled had “active pharmaceutical ingredients” present at a level deemed unsafe for aquatic organisms.

Waterways in Lahore, Bolivia, and Ethiopia are among the most contaminated, according to the study while rivers in Iceland, Norway, and the Amazon rainforest fared best.

Pollution of the world’s rivers by medications and pharmaceutical products, according to the research, constitutes a “threat to environmental and global health”.

A video is making rounds on social media in which a man can be seen risking his life to save a girl who was trapped under a moving g train in Bhopal.

As reported by Indian media, the incident took place on February 5. A girl, Sneha Gaur, was passing under a parked goods train and suddenly, the train started moving. When Sneha got trapped under the train, she started screaming

A Muslim man named Mohammad Mehboob, who works as a carpenter, was rushing to a furniture factory when he saw Sneha Gaur trapped under a train.

As the train started moving, Mohammad slid onto the tracks past the wheels to reach Sneha and ensured that she stayed down without hitting the moving wagons.

 “On February 5 evening, I was returning from the Golden Mosque after namaz on a two-wheeler. We were getting late for the furniture factory so we crossed the goods train to stand on the railway track but one of my friends was crossing it by lying down under the goods train. A young woman followed him but suddenly the goods train started moving and the woman got stuck,” said Mohammad Mehboob while talking to Indian media.

“She panicked and people tried to tell her to lie down between the tracks but she did not understand what to do. I decided to save her and entered the track by crawling down. I held her hand and asked her to lie down silently. As many as 26 bogies passed over us. After the train passed, we stood up and the girl left without saying anything,” he added.