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A fire ripped through a shopping mall in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, late Thursday, killing at least 46 people and leaving dozens of others injured, officials said. The deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning after people became stuck in an enclosed room and suffocated from the smoke, the …

The top human rights official at the United Nations condemned Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in an especially forceful statement on Thursday and warned that an assault on Rafah would add a new level of horror to the war. The terror attacks by Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups on …

The San Francisco 49ers came up short yet again this past Sunday, losing to the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl for the second time in four years. They will enter yet another NFL off-season of disappointment after coming up empty-handed following four NFC Championship appearances in the past …

A journalist working with the University of Jos Ice FM in Plateau State, Juliana Olajide, has lost her 17-year-old daughter and a grandson in a fire that razed the family’s apartment.   Daily Trust learnt that the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, but the family suspected …

AXA Mansard Insurance, a member of AXA, a global leader in insurance and asset management, has extended its two promotional schemes, AXA Mansard Awoof Xtra and Double-Double Promo, till June 2024. The company said it made this decision so that more Nigerians and its customers whose policies were still active last year could also …

A woman armed with a long gun took her young child to Joel Osteen’s Houston-area mega-church on Sunday, Feb. 11, and opened fire, leading cops to shoot her dead and the child to suffer critical gunshot wounds.    The woman, dressed in a trench coat and carrying a backpack, stormed …

A fire incident that broke out in Yakasai Layin “Inuwa me mai” in Kano Municipal has killed a four-year-old boy, NAN reports.   The Public Relations Officer of the service, Saminu Abdullahi, who disclosed this in a statement said the incident happened on Monday evening, February 5, 2024.   “We received …

A man, who is accused of setting five police officers and a firefighter alight using what was thought to be petrol, has been charged with six counts of attempted murder.     Police said Ako Faraji threw the flammable liquid at the group, which also included a sixth officer who avoided …

Police in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are on the hunt for two gunmen after a 22-year-old woman, Tia Ashleigh Robinson was shot dead in Pinetown, west of the Durban city centre.   KZN police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday, January 27, 2024, …

West Midlands Fire chief, Wayne Brown has been found dead at his home after an investigation was launched into claims he ‘lied about having a master’s degree to get £180,000-a-year job.      Mr Brown, who was hired as chief of West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority in the UK …