Hasnin Anwar Warekar, a 35-year-old man allegedly murdered 14 members of his family including seven children with a butcher's knife before killing himself outside the Indian financial capital Mumbai, police said.
The attack happened after family members gathered late on Saturday at one of their homes in Thane, 20 miles from Mumbai, for a family function, police said.
"The attacker, Hasnin Anwar Warekar, hung himself after slitting the throats of all other family members including his parents," a Thane police spokesman, Gajanan Laxman Kabdule, said.
The sole survivor of the attack - Warekar's sister - was taken to hospital after neighbours heard her screaming for help after midnight and alerted police.
"We still haven't been able to speak with the attacker's 21-year-old sister, the lone survivor of the attack, who is in deep trauma at a city hospital," Mr Kabdule said.
Warekar attacked his family after apparently lacing their food with a sedative, according to several local media reports.
But the Indian Express newspaper said the chartered accountant stabbed his victims after they went to bed, having all decided to spend the night at the house.
"Prima facie evidence suggests that the accused bolted all the doors of the house and murdered his family while they were asleep with a knife that we found near his body," Ashutosh Dumbre, joint commissioner of Thane police, was quoted saying.
"The accused then hung himself after killing his family. There were three rooms in the house, while he was in a room with his wife and two daughters on the first floor, his parents and sisters were in separate rooms on the ground floor,” Dumbare said.
A senior Thane police officer told the paper that the family was well known in the area.
"Initial inquiry does not suggest that there was any trouble within the family to coerce Hansil to take this extreme step,” said a senior Thane Police officer.
Police are investigating the case.
A man from Chennai, India, has fought against the odds for most of his life. Although doctors told his parents that he would die within weeks after being born, Arun Rajasingh has made it to 34-years-old.
He even graduated from an engineering college. What makes his story so bizarre is that he has accomplished all of this while suffering from a rare genetic disorder that has caused his legs to swell to five times their normal size.
Arun has gained the nickname of ‘The Elephant Man’ due to the fact that his right leg has swelled to over 220 pounds, roughly the same weight as a newborn elephant calf. However, unlike the more famous Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick from England, Rajasingh had been able to live a relatively normal life. However, over the last three years, Arun’s left leg has also begun swelling, although it is currently only half the size and weight of his right leg.
The excessive fluid and growths in the man’s legs make it nearly impossible for them to bend. As a result, Rajasingh is reliant on a wheelchair whenever he needs to move around. He also needs the assistance of nurses for simple tasks, such as getting dressed and using the bathroom. His legs have increased in size on a regular basis, despite the fact that he undergoes weekly physical therapy sessions. Because doctors remain puzzled about the underlying cause of the swelling, and no cure has been discovered, the physical therapy exercises are a bit touch-and-go. They include foot massages as well as the physical therapist standing on Arun’s right leg in an effort to loosen the muscles.
Despite the challenges he’s faced so far, Rajasingh remains positive. He is working with physicians from around the world and believes that they will eventually develop a cure. In the meantime, he plans to put his engineering degree to good use by starting a software company like his idol, Steve Jobs.
Right now there are over 13,000 man-made objects floating in orbit around Earth. That number would be even higher if scientists at NASA counted all the objects less than 1 centimeter in size. Yet, despite all of those objects, it was not a piece of space junk that killed a bus driver in Southern India over the weekend. Instead, a meteorite tragically ended the man’s life while at the same time ushering him into the record books.
Mr. V. Kamaraj, age 40, is the man at the center of this tragic tale. For the last four years he has driven a campus bus at Bharathidasan Engineering College in the Indian city of Vellore, located in the state of Tamil Nadu. When the meteorite struck Earth, Kamaraj was not on his bus, but taking a walk around the college grounds near the cafeteria. The space rock crashing into the ground created an explosion that destroyed windows in some buildings and vehicles around campus. Although Kamaraj was the only fatality, three other individuals near the cafeteria were also injured.
As investigators made their way to the scene, they noted a small, dark blue stone, approximately the size of a diamond, in the center of an impact crater that was five feet wide and two feet deep. Authorities brought in metal detectors and dug up the soil in the hole to begin determining whether or not there was another cause for the explosion. While scientists at NASA and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics remain skeptical that a meteorite caused the death, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa, chalked the incident up to a stone from outer space.
According to experts, around 10 meteorites strike Earth each year. These strikes are rare because most meteoroids burn up when passing through the planet’s atmosphere. Even when one makes it through, more often than not it will splash harmlessly into the oceans. Casualties resulting from meteorites are so rare that the International Comet Quarterly, a journal that keeps records of meteorite activity, states the last time a meteorite might have killed someone was all the way back in 1825. And, perhaps lending credibility to the 2016 occurrence, the nineteenth-century impact also occurred in India.
Russian scientists have just accomplished an incredible feat which could represent a major breakthrough in the domain of genetics: they were able to grow some functioning gills on a 27-year old man by adding some fish genes to his DNA strand.
According to worldnewsdailyreport, the young patient, a scuba diving enthusiast named Alexei Olegovich Zakharchenko, volunteered for the experiment in 2012, hoping to be able to breath underwater without a diving mask. The scientists of the Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics of the N.I. Pirogov Russian State Medical University, led by Professor Ivan Arturovich Vedenin, were able to modify the man’s DNA permanently after almost two years of constant treatment, causing his body to change drastically.
Mr. Zakharchenko is now able to breath underwater, but only to some extent, as his lungs are stills adapting to the apparition of his new breathing organs.
“It’s a really strange feeling to breath underwater,” claims the young man. “I can really inhale some air and all, but I still feel a bit like I’m drowning… But it’s still awesome. Soon, I’ll be able to dive without any equipment, just like a fish!”
Professor Vedenin says the “drowning” sensation should disappear over the next few months, as his body adapts and get used to receiving oxygen from the gills.
“It is totally normal for such major physical changes to necessitate a time of adaptation,” says the famous geneticist. “The important thing is that it works! If everything goes as planned, he should be fully capable of breathing underwater in about six months.”
The statue, ‘Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant’ is in The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.
‘I am not saying that this is depicting an ancient laptop computer,’ said YouTuber StillSpeakingOut.
‘But when I look at the sculpture I can’t help but think about the Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to connect with the gods to retrieve advanced information and various aspects.’
In the gallery’s description, the object is described as a ‘shallow chest’ - but conspiracy theorists are having none of that.
StillSpeakingOut says it, ‘depicts an astonishing object which bears a striking resemblance with a modern laptop or some hand-held device.’
The strange image is just one of many seemingly anachronistic objects picked out by conspiracy theorists.
A Bangladeshi man with a condition dubbed "tree man" disease is set to have the bark-like warts on his hands and feet removed free of charge.
Doctors said Abul Bajandar suffers from a condition called epidermodysplasia verruciformi, which caused tree branch-like warts to begin growing on his limbs when he was only 10-years-old.
Samanta Lal Sen, director of the Plastic Surgery and Burn Unit at Bangladesh's state-run Dhaka Medical Hospital, said Bajandar has one of the most severe known cases of the condition, which is also known as "tree man" disease.
"This is one of the most rare cases of disease that I have seen in Bangladesh, even in the world," Lal Sen told CNN.
Doctors said the in condition is caused by a defect in the immune system that increases susceptibility to human papilloma virus, or HPV.
Bajandar, a former rickshaw driver, said he was forced to stop working when the growths became too severe for him to use his hands.
Surgeons in Dhaka offered to perform surgeries free of charge after learning of Bajandar's plight.
"The surgery is a lengthy process and will involve many [operations]. The whole process can take up to six months," Lal Sen said.
Lal Sen said doctors from around the world have offered their assistance in the case.
"An American doctor emailed us today asking for blood and biopsy sample of the patient," he told The Daily Star.
