A COUPLE in Northeast China’s Liaoning Province were robbed and killed because their murderers believed a rumor that they had won a two million yuan (US$260,078) lottery, the Shenyang Evening News reported yesterday.
May 17th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 0 comments | ContinuedAsia
Mourning man lies in own grave, and waits to die
Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said.
Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave [...]
Lovebirds die during prolonged sex-act
A young couple died due to asphyxia in a car with running air-conditioner after a prolonged sexual act.
It is feared that the death of lovebirds Charu (16) and Sameer was due to the emission of toxic gases from the air-conditioner duct.
Police ruled out the suicide theory as the bodies of the lovebirds were found in [...]
Taxi driver arrested for making 667 prank calls to police
A taxi driver was arrested Tuesday for making 667 prank calls to Tokyo police over a six-hour period in February, investigators said.
Yukio Sakai, 63, a resident of Koto-ku, Tokyo, is accused of obstruction of business. Sakai admitted to having made the calls but denied he attempted to obstruct police business.
“I wanted to consult police over [...]
Suicidal woman jumps off building, lands on man’s head
*The scene where the woman leaped to her death.*
Man injured after suicidal woman jumps off building, lands on his head
A man was injured after a suicidal woman who jumped off the roof of a Tokyo building landed on his head on Friday afternoon, police said.
Investigators said they suspect that the woman, an 18-year-old university student, [...]
Indian woman locked in a room for 15 years by family
New Delhi – Police in India’s eastern state of West Bengal have rescued a 40-year-old-woman who was imprisoned by her husband and in-laws in a cramped room for 15 years because she did not get enough dowry, a newspaper reported Sunday. Police found Madhabi Das inside a room at her in-laws’ residence in Baruipur [...]
April 29th, 2007 | 3V8 Staff | 2 comments | Continued
Falling woman saved by pile of…
A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said.
The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern province of Jiangsu, the Kuaibao tabloid said on its Web site (www.kuaibao.net).
“Workers happened to [...]
World’s tallest man ties knot
BEIJING, China (AP) — After searching high and low, the world’s tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch (2.36-meter) herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 meters) tall, several days ago, the Beijing New reported.
Bao’s 28-year-old bride [...]
Man sells wife’s kidney to buy tractor
Police in central Pakistan have registered a criminal case against a farmer who allegedly sold his wife’s kidney to purchase a tractor, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
The woman told officials in the central Bahawalpur district that doctors discovered the removal of the organ while treating her for a urinary tract infection she contracted after the [...]
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