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Body parts that fell from the sky onto Saudi city could be ‘remains of someone trapped in an aircraft’s landing gear’, police say

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Human body parts that fell from the sky in Saudi Arabia could be the remains of someone trapped in an aircraft’s undercarriage bay, police have revealed.

Officers said the grisly incident happened near the centre of the Red Sea city of Jeddah, just south of King Abdulaziz International Airport, early this morning.

The report came after a Saudi Arabian Airlines jet made an emergency landing in the city of Medina in the west of the kingdom, injuring 29 people on Sunday.

That aircraft had been travelling from Iran’s second city of Mashhad with 315 people on board.

A spokesman for the General Authority of Civil Aviation said there was no connection between the emergency landing in Medina and the Jeddah incident.

In a desperate attempt to cross borders, some people at poorly monitored airports climb inside the bays housing aircraft landing gear.

Most of them freeze to death once the aircraft reach cruising altitude, but some survive.

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Bulgarians Celebrate Epiphany With an Icy Dip

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Bulgaria Orthodox Epiphany

 

Thousands of young men are plunging into icy rivers and lakes across Bulgaria to retrieve crucifixes cast by priests in an old ritual marking the feast of Epiphany.

By tradition, a crucifix is cast into the waters of a lake or river, and it is believed that the person who retrieves it will be freed from evil spirits and will be healthy through the year.

The celebration of Epiphany, or the Apparition of Christ, as Bulgarians call it, began on Monday in Sofia with a water blessing ceremony.

The head of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Neofit, said a prayer for the prosperity of the people and blessed the colors of representative army units — a tradition abandoned in 1946 and re-established in 1992.

 

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Obama LEAVES Michelle in Hawaii as 50th ‘birthday present’ while he returns from two-week vacation with Sasha and Malia

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Michelle Obama doesn’t want jewelry or chocolates for her 50th birthday later this month. She wants to be alone.

President Barack Obama returned to Washington Saturday after two weeks of vacationing with his family in Hawaii. He left with daughters Sasha and Malia. Michelle stayed behind.

‘As part of her birthday gift from the president, the first lady will remain in Hawaii to spend time with friends ahead of her upcoming 50th birthday,’ the White House explained in a statement.

 

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The First Lady turns the big 5 – 0 on January 17.

The White House did not say how much longer Michelle would stay in Hawaii or when she would rejoin her family in Washington.

 

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More than a dozen die in stampede at religious event in China

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A stampede at a religious gathering in northwestern China left 14 dead and 10 others injured on Sunday, China’s state-run news agency Xinhua has reported, citing local government.

The incident is still under investigation, but Xinhua’s initial report said the stampede occurred during the handing out of food at an event to commemorate a late religious figure in a mosque in Guyuan, a city in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The injured victims were hospitalized. Four people are in critical condition, Xinhua reported.

 

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