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- CTV News
Construction worker struck by vehicle in Richmond Hill
A construction worker was struck by a vehicle in Richmond Hill late Monday night. (Mike Nguyen/ CP24) A construction worker was injured after he was struck by a vehicle in Richmond Hill late Monday night. Police said the collision occurred at around 11:48 p.m. in the area of King Road and Parker Avenue. The victim, a 40-year-old man, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and police said the Ministry of Labour attended the scene to investigate. Roads are expected to reopen on Tuesday morning. Police have not said if any charges will be laid.
CNA
16-07-2025
- CNA
Man gets jail for pushing drunk stranger into Singapore River; victim later found dead
SINGAPORE: A man was sentenced to just under three years' jail on Wednesday (Jul 16) for pushing a drunk man, who fell into the Singapore River and drowned. Legha Pawan, a 22-year-old Indian national, was given 35 months' jail. He pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt to Jasbir Singh, 33, where the hurt caused turned out to be grievous hurt in the form of death. The charge had been downgraded from an earlier charge of causing death by a rash act. A second charge was taken into consideration. The court heard that Legha, a student, lived in Woodlands with several housemates. On the evening of Jun 30 last year, Legha and his housemates left their flat for an evening out at Clarke Quay. They bought six cans of beer, some cigarettes and snacks and sat down at the steps near the riverside, in the vicinity of Paradox Singapore Merchant Court Hotel and Clarke Quay Central mall. They spent the next few hours chatting and consuming alcohol, with Legha drinking two cans of beer. They were joined by other acquaintances along the way. Sometime before 10pm, an argument broke out among Legha's friends. An intoxicated Legha pulled the hair of one of his friends and was pulled away by another friend to prevent any escalation of the situation. The group then dispersed. Meanwhile, the victim was walking along the riverbank around 10.10pm. Mr Singh, a construction worker, was married and had two young children back in India who depended on him financially. He had begun drinking heavily about two or three months before the incident, after his mother died. He was not acquainted with Legha, and he stopped and hugged a lamp post near the area where Legha had been spending time with his friends. At about 10.30pm, Legha returned to the spot alone and approached Mr Singh. This immediately drew the attention of a couple nearby, who were wary of Legha after recognising him from the earlier disturbance. Initially, Legha spoke quietly to Mr Singh and made no body contact. Mr Singh stood near the edge of the river bank, with his back to the river. Legha knew that Mr Singh was very intoxicated, the court heard. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Legha pushed Mr Singh on his chest with both hands. Mr Singh fell backwards, rolled down the steps and fell into the Singapore River. Witnessing this, the nearby couple shouted. Mr Singh quickly became submerged in the water and did not resurface. The couple alerted the police, while Legha left the scene. The Singapore Civil Defence Force Disaster Assistance Rescue Team (DART) went down to the scene and assembled a diving team, which took turns canvassing the waters for periods of 30 to 45 minutes each. Initially, there was no sign of Mr Singh, save for a single white slipper that belonged to him. His body was found on the riverbed only at around 2am on Jul 1, 2024. He was pronounced dead soon after. An autopsy determined his cause of death to be drowning, and external injuries including a bruise to the back of his neck and a laceration on the back of his head were found. A toxicology report found an amount of ethanol in Mr Singh's blood which was indicative of a high level of intoxication, the court heard. After pushing Mr Singh, Legha removed his shirt to avoid police detection and took a train back to his home, where he called his unwitting housemate to meet him with his backpack at a different block. He did this intending to evade arrest, the court heard. Legha returned to his flat only at around 8am on Jul 1, 2024 and was promptly arrested. During investigations, he claimed that it was Mr Singh who first grabbed his bangle and damaged it. He claimed that he managed to free both his hands only after a short struggle, and got upset when Mr Singh used vulgarities against his mother. However, police investigations revealed no objective evidence supporting his claim. The prosecution said Legha knew that the victim was intoxicated. It was "reasonably foreseeable" that the push would cause grievous hurt, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Jheong Siew Yin. She pointed out aggravating factors, including the fact that Legha was intoxicated, his act was unprovoked, and that he fled the scene without helping the victim. Defence lawyer Simran Kaur Sandhu sought 30 months' jail instead, saying both her client and the deceased were intoxicated. She highlighted that no weapon was used, and the push was "a generic push" not intended to target vulnerable points.
Khaleej Times
02-07-2025
- Climate
- Khaleej Times
France shuts schools, Italy limits work outdoors in 'exceptional' European heatwave
Italy limited work outdoors, France shut schools and Turkey battled wildfires on Tuesday in a European heatwave that meteorologists said was "exceptional" for striking so early this year. Spain confirmed its hottest June on record, while temperatures passed 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) in some of its cities on Tuesday. Likewise, heat scaled to reach 40 degrees in the Italian city of Trento, while northern European cities such as London were also sweltering. Europe is heating up at twice the global average speed and is the world's fastest-warming continent, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service has said. "What is exceptional ... but not unprecedented is the time of year," said World Meteorological Organization spokesperson Clare Nullis. Europe was experiencing extreme heat episodes "which normally we would see later on in the summer," she said. Some countries issued health alerts and trade unions attributed the death of a construction worker near the Italian city of Bologna on Monday to the heat. Outdoor work was banned in some Italian regions during the hottest hours of the day as Italy issued heatwave red alerts for 17 cities, including Milan and Rome. Power outages, likely caused or aggravated by spiking electricity consumption from air conditioners, were reported in central Florence and in the northern city of Bergamo. In Sicily, a woman with a heart condition died while walking in the city of Bagheria, news agencies reported. In the Spanish city of Barcelona, authorities were looking into whether the death of a street sweeper at the weekend was heat-related. The Red Cross set up an air-conditioned "climate refuge" for residents in Malaga in southern Spain, said a spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Turkey continued to battle the wildfires that forced the temporary evacuation of around 50,000 people on Monday in areas surrounding the city of Izmir and in the nearby province of Manisa, as well as Hatay in the southeast. In France, nearly 1,900 schools were closed, up from around 200 on Monday. The heat was set to peak in France on Tuesday at 40-41 C in some areas, weather forecaster Meteo France said. RECORD TEMPERATURES Scientists say greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels are a cause of climate change, with deforestation and industrial practices being other contributing factors. Last year was the planet's hottest on record. "We keep hearing about climate change. I think we're definitely feeling it now," said Omar Bah, a rental company worker said in London, where temperatures hit 32 C. The Mediterranean Sea hit a record 30 C off Spain, six degrees above the seasonal average, Spanish weather forecaster AEMET said, as a high pressure system trapped hot air above Europe - a phenomenon known as a heat dome. Nullis said higher temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea tend to reinforce extreme temperatures over land areas. The average temperature in Spain was 23.6 C last month, weather agency AEMET said. Copernicus said June probably ranks among the five warmest on record, Copernicus said. England had its hottest June since at least 1884, the Met Office national weather service said, citing provisional data. A Paris-Milan rail service was disrupted because of a mudslide on the French side of the Alps, with full service not expected to be fully restored until mid-July, French rail operator SNCF said. The top floor of the Eiffel Tower was closed, disappointing scores of visitors. "I tried to get all organised before our departure and the result is nonsense," said Laia Pons, 42, a teacher from Barcelona who booked Eiffel tickets for her family three years ago. When temperatures rise, the puddled iron used to build the Eiffel Tower expands in size and tilts slightly, with no impact on its structural integrity, according to its website. The scorching temperatures have raised the risk of field fires as farmers in France, the European Union's biggest grain producer, start harvesting this year's crop, with many working through the night to avoid peak afternoon temperatures.
BBC News
01-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Europe heatwave: Two dead in Italy as much of Europe scorches
Two people have died in Italy as temperatures continue to soar amid an intense heatwave across Bologna a 47-year-old died after falling ill on a construction site while a 70-year-old man was reported drowned during flash flooding at a tourist resort to the west of on the continent, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated because of wildfires in western Turkey, while the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris has been closed because of the of Spain and Portugal recorded their highest ever June temperatures, with 46C registered at El Granado in south-west Spain, a day after records were broken in Mora in central Portugal. Spain's Aemet meteorological agency said that several places across the Iberian peninsula had topped 43C, but a respite in temperatures was on its way from temperatures recorded overnight into Tuesday hit 28C in Seville and 27C in Turkey, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people - mostly from the western province of Izmir - as firefighters continued to put out hundreds of wildfires that had broken out in recent have also swept through parts of Bilecik, Hatay, Sakarya, and Manisa Minister Ibrahim Yumakli said over the past three days, emergency teams had responded to 263 wildfires nationwide. In France, many cities experienced their hottest night and day on record for June on Monday, but forecasters have said the heatwave should expect to peak on Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher called an "unprecedented" first time in five years the Paris region has activated a red alert, along with 15 other French regions. The Ministry of Education has said 1,350 public schools will either be partially or completely closed on Tuesday.A reading of 46.6 C (115.9F) was registered in Mora, Portugal, about 60 miles east of Lisbon on Sunday. Portuguese weather officials were working to confirm whether that marked a new record for June. In Italy, the Tuscany region has seen hospital admissions rise by 20%, according to local reports. Italians in 21 out of the 27 cities have been subjected to the highest heat alert and 13 regions, including Lombardy and Emilia, have been advised not to venture outside during the hottest periods of the Lombardy, working outdoors has been banned from 12:30 to 16:00 on hot days on building sites, roads and farms until in Greece have been approaching 40C for several days and wildfires hit several coastal towns near the capital Athens destroying homes and forcing people to evacuate. Parts of the UK were just shy of being one of the hottest June days ever on highest UK temperature of the day was recorded at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon recorded a temperature of 32.9C, the tennis tournament's hottest opening day on Germany, the country's meteorological service warned that temperatures could reach almost 38C on Tuesday and Wednesday - further potentially record-breaking heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting in and around the Balkans have also been struggling with the intense heat, although temperatures have begun to cool. Wildfires have also been reported in Montenegro. While the heatwave is a potential health issue, it is also impacting the environment. Higher temperatures in the Adriatic Sea are encouraging invasive species such as the poisonous lionfish, while also causing further stress on alpine glaciers that are already shrinking at record UN's human rights chief, Volker Turk, warned on Monday that the heatwave highlighted the need for climate adaptation - moving away from practices and energy sources, such as fossil fuels, which are the main cause of climate change."Rising temperatures, rising seas, floods, droughts, and wildfires threaten our rights to life, to health, to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and much more," he told the UN's Human Rights are becoming more common due to human-caused climate change, according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate hot weather will happen more often – and become even more intense - as the planet continues to warm, it has Allan, Professor of Climate Science at the University of Reading in the UK, explained that rising greenhouse gas levels are making it harder for the planet to lose excess heat."The warmer, thirstier atmosphere is more effective at drying soils, meaning heatwaves are intensifying, with moderate heat events now becoming extreme." Sign up for our Future Earth newsletter to keep up with the latest climate and environment stories with the BBC's Justin Rowlatt. Outside the UK? Sign up to our international newsletter here.
News24
24-06-2025
- News24
Construction accident in Durban leaves one dead, four injured
A construction worker died and four were injured when they fell approximately six metres during a scaffolding collapse in Umgeni Road, Durban, according to paramedics. ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson said emergency services officials were called to the scene at around 11:30. 'Initial reports were that a construction team were working on a scaffolding when the scaffolding gave way. Paramedics arrived on the scene to find total chaos,' he said. Five workers had fallen around six metres, he added. 'Immediately, more ambulances, as well as advanced life support paramedics, were dispatched to assist,' Jamieson said. A male construction worker, believed to be about 40 years old, was declared dead on the scene. The other four sustained injuries ranging from moderate to critical. They have been transported to the hospital. Police are investigating the matter.
