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...chilling testimony. One minute, Saraswathy Govindasamy was chatting outside her front door with her eight-month pregnant niece and neighbor, Selvamalar Nadarajah. The next, her niece and four others had been shot dead by a police SWAT team...
...rushed out when I heard the gunshots," Saraswathy, a 44-year-old housewife told a Kuala Lumpur court in early March. She claims she tried to alert police that a pregnant woman was inside the house they had surrounded. "Do you want to die? Go back inside," a policeman shouted, according to Saraswathy. "About two hours later a police truck arrived. They brought out five bodies from the house and into the waiting truck." One of the bodies was Selvamalar...
...PREGNANT PAUSE The real No. 1 killer of pregnant women and new moms is not complications of childbirth--like hemorrhage or stroke--but...homicide. Murder, while still rare, occurs twice as often among those pregnant or recently pregnant, compared with other women of the same age. Researchers have no explanation, but the stress of pregnancy might increase the incidence of domestic violence...
...farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone was carefully watched, and there were even two helicopters flying overhead monitoring all movement. It was as if they'd located an escaped serial killer." Full Story...
...emptive" killing of every pig and sheep within 3 km of any infected farm in Cumbria and southwest Scotland. By some accounts, the massive slaughter order could doom more than a million animals. Officials even considered calling in army sharpshooters to gun down sheep - including newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes - in the fields where they grazed. The cost: $10 million and rising in compensation to farmers and an estimated $150 million a week in losses to the tourist industry as visitors heed calls to avoid the countryside...