(Sky News) - A teenager has been attacked and killed by piranhas in northeastern Bolivia.
Police have said the 18-year-old was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital of La Paz.
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Bizarre Deaths
(Reuters By JIM FORSYTH) - A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old woman entered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission office in downtown Laredo on Monday afternoon and demanded to speak to a supervisor, said investigator Joe Baeza of the Laredo Police Department.
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(Daily Mail By RACHEL QUIGLEY) - A 26-year-old woman is dead after apparently throwing herself off the Queen Mary ocean liner into freezing water after an argument with her boyfriend.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, was said to have plunged 75 feet into the water from the ship in Long Beach Harbour, California, last night.
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(Daily Mail By RICHARD SHEARS) - A search has begun for a large crocodile thought to have killed a scuba diver in northern Australia.
The savaged body of David Fordson has been recovered near Bushie islet, in the remote Cairncross Island Group three miles off the coast of Cape York, Queensland – an area notorious for saltwater crocodiles.
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(Daily Mail) - A woman has been charged with killing her 90-year-old grandmother by mixing a lethal dose of morphine into her Wendy’s chilli.
Shelby Lynn Adams, 40, from York, Pennsylvania, allegedly laced the chilli – her grandma’s favourite food – during a trip to the fast food restaurant in 2008.
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(Daily Mail By NICK PISA) - Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after more than a dozen illegal immigrants were thrown from a boat in a ‘voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas,’ an Italian prosecutor revealed today.
Survivors gave police an horrific account of how human ‘sacrifices’ were picked from a ship crammed with 400 people after the engine failed.
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(Daily Mail By KATE SILVER) - A man has man died after stunned doctors removed 13 pounds of metal from his stomach.
Farmer Kamleshwar Singh was admitted to hospital in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh complaining of abdominal pains.
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(Daily Mail) - Police in south eastern Idaho say detectives are investigating the ‘suspicious’ deaths of one-month-old identical twin boys whose mother called 911 to report that they were not breathing.
Kiarra Kimbell, of Pocatello, made the report at 8:35 a.m. Monday, authorities said.
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(Daily Mail) - A woman who was shot in 1998 died from the injuries sustained from the shooting last week and police may now charge the man responsible for murder.
Lakessha Johnson’s November 8 death was ruled a homicide after a medical examiner said the Seattle woman died from complications related to the original shooting.
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(CBC News) - A 16-year-old minor hockey player in Edmonton has died after he was hit in the throat by a puck in what has been called a “freak accident.”
Kyle Fundytus died after blocking a shot during the midget double-A game Saturday afternoon at the Clareview Arena.
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