62 h. ago Colombian woman wanted for 'killing children with poisoned berries' escapes Interpol but not Chiswick lifeboat

Zulma Guzman Castro has been accused of killing two children with poisoned raspberries

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4 d. ago 28 Days Later: The Bone Temple — Zombies are no match for a cult of killer children

Nia DaCosta’s takes the wheel for a frightening drive into the dark and terrible human heart of zombie horror

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5 d. ago Wife and two children of police officer killed in Boxing Day blaze died from 'exposure' to fire, inquest told

Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, and her children Eve, seven, and four-year-old Ohner were killed when the fire destroyed their home in Brimscombe, Gloucestershire.

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5 d. ago Children killed in Boxing Day fire alongside mum identified by DNA as inquests open

Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, known as Nu, and her children, Eve, seven, and four-year-old Ohner, were all killed in a house fire in Brimscombe, near Stroud, Gloucestershire on Boxing Day

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5 d. ago Final moments of mum and kids killed in Boxing Day fire as dad 'tried to save family'

Fionnghuala Shearman, 38, known as Nu, and her children, Eve, seven, and four-year-old Ohner, were all killed in a house fire in Brimscombe, near Stroud, Gloucestershire on Boxing Day

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6 d. ago Sisters who were separated when their father murdered their mother with a hammer in Wales reunite after 50 years

Theresa Fazzani, 59, and her sister Janet, 57, were just children when their mother Helen Barnes was brutally killed in December 1973 at the family home in Newport, Wales.

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7 d. ago Swiss bar owner 'desperately tried to save waitress before she died in fire'

Jacques Moretti's statements to investigators have been reported in Switzerland, ten days on from the disaster that killed 20 children and left a further 116 injured

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7 d. ago 'Pure evil' dad killed 5 of his own babies as tiny body found submerged in canal

Monster Paul Allen Perez, 63, has been convicted by a northern California jury of killing his five infant children over a nine-year period

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8 d. ago Mother who killed her three young children then paralyzed herself in botched suicide attempt will 'very likely kill herself' during murder trial, lawyer says

Lindsay Clancy, 35, is accused of strangling her three children with exercise bands in the basement of her $750,000 Duxbury home.

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8 d. ago Crucial 'super flu' symptoms to monitor as toddler left 'paralysed' by bug

A killer virus has devastated the US, leaving no fewer than nine children dead and one two-year-paralysed after she fought for her life in hospital for several weeks

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8 d. ago Swiss fire survivors recall 'unbearable burning smell' after 'night of ashes' kills 40

The trio spoke out at an official memorial service, nine days after 40 people, including 20 children, were killed and 116 injured in the blaze at Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana

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9 d. ago At least 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including five children, civil defence agency says

Attacks bring total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 425 since October ceasefire took effectGaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting.Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. Continue reading...

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1 week ago School shooter who killed two children set to walk free after life sentence quashed

Charles Andrew 'Andy' Williams, 39, was sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison for the shooting at Santana High School however now the classroom killer could walk free

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1 week ago ‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five

The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why she had to tell Hind’s tragic storyWhen Kaouther Ben Hania heard Hind Rajab’s voice for the first time, she was in Los Angeles airport scrolling through social media. The five-year-old’s cry for help cut through the clamour around her. This was in February 2024 and Hind had already been dead for at least a week, left to bleed out among the corpses of six of her relatives after their car was targeted by an Israeli tank, leaving it with 335 bullet holes, according to the Forensic Architecture research group.More than 20,000 Palestinian children were killed in two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, according to UN estimates. Another 82 have been killed since 10 October when a ceasefire was declared and then routinely breached. The pictures of the dead have often been published online, inc...

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1 week ago Nurse 'shot sons and gran before killing herself' in awful 'quadruple murder suicide'

A small town is grieving after nurse Heather Thompson, 32, allegedly shot and killed her two young children and 88-year-old grandmother before taking her own life

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1 week ago Three children dead in Iran protests as security forces accused of ‘indiscriminate targeting’

Escalating protests sparked by economic chaos have seen at least 20 people killed and nearly 1,000 arrested, say human rights groupsAt least three children are reported to have been killed and more than 40 minors arrested after eight days of the ongoing protests across Iran, as human rights groups accuse the regime’s security forces of “indiscriminate targeting of civilians”.The nationwide uprising sparked by the collapse of the country’s currency and rising living costs has spread to at least 78 cities and 222 locations, with demonstrators calling for the end of the regime, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI). Continue reading...

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1 week ago Boy, 15, dies in freak bike crash just four years after escaping death in bouncy castle tragedy which killed 6 children

A TEENAGER has died in a freak bike crash just four years after he miraculously survived a bouncy castle tragedy. Lucas Reid, 15, was killed on New Year's Eve when he collided with a telephone pole while out on a nighttime e-bike ride, Australia police believe. The young man was cycling through Devonport, Tasmania, at...

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2 w. ago Police officer pays tribute to wife and children killed in Boxing Day house fire

Tom Shearman remembered his family as ‘three of the greatest humans to ever grace our presence’

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2 w. ago Putin is accused of 'dancing on bones' after rebuilding Mariupol theatre where children were among hundreds killed when Kremlin forces blew it up while families sheltered there

The Mariupol Drama Theatre in the port city of the same name was bombed by Russia in March 2022 weeks after its invasion of Ukraine.

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2 w. ago Dad has 'nothing left' after horror house fire tragically kills his wife and young children

Dad-of-two Tom Shearman tried to save wife Fionnghuala and children Eve, seven and Ohner, four, from the blaze

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