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3,000 dog bite cases reported in 3 months in Hyderabad, India


The New Indian Express
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 17:59 UTC
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Street dogs
With rising temperatures, stray dogs are creating mayhem in different parts of the city.

Gopi of Malkajgiri, who met with an accident came to Gandhi Hospital for treatment, was attacked by street dogs on Friday.

Many dog bite cases have been reported from Rahmatnagar, Sri Krishna Nagar and Karmanghat and other parts of the city. In the last three months, nearly 3,000 dog bites cases have been reported in Greater Hyderabad limits.

In view of prevailing heat, dog bite cases are likely to increase as stray dogs go wild in summer due to dehydration.

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has not been able to tackle the increasing menace of stray dogs, owing to uproar from animal welfare organisations.
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5-year-old girl mauled by stray dogs dies in Mumbai, India

George Mendonca
The Times of India
Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:44 UTC
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Stray dogs
A five-year-old girl from Khutari village in Panvel taluka died after been attacked by four stray dogs on Sunday around 7am. The dogs bit the minor girl with such severity that a nerve of her neck was damaged causing her death within 30 minutes after being admitted to the hospital.

Pratiksha Sharu accompanied by her sibling Meena (7) had gone to answer nature's call in the open near her house, when the four stray dogs started barking at her. The dogs chased her, after she panicked and started running away, and soon pounced upon her and bit her all over the body. However, her elder sister managed to escape.

The victim's father Dol Bahadur Sharu (35), who works as a delivery van driver for a private printing press said, "We came to know about the incident only when Meena came home running and told that dogs have bitten Pratiksha. We rushed to the spot behind the parked van and found my daughter lying in a pool of blood. We rushed her to MGM hospital in Kamothe. The doctors declared her dead half an hour after admitting her to the hospital."
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Attention

Another small earthquake hits southern Los Angeles area


News.lalate.com
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:34 UTC
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Another Los Angeles area earthquake today 2015 has struck Southern California. This time the quake was centered further south, closer to Anza and La Quinta. Damage assessment is pending. The quake follows another temblor that struck Granada Hills on Saturday.

USGS indicates to news that a Los Angeles area earthquake today April 5, 2015 struck just after 5:56 am PST. The quake was shallow. Reps tell news that the quake started just 8.9 km below ground level. As a result the quake could be felt across the vicinity. The quake registered a 2.6 magnitude. It was seven miles east of Anza, twenty miles south of La Quinta, it was twenty-one miles southwest of Palm Dester and 21 miles south of Rancho Mirage.

Several quakes have been hitting the region since 2012. In April that year one quake was centered near Indio. It was twelve miles north of Coachella, and thirteen miles east of Thousand Palms. It was reportedly twenty miles from Twenty-nine Palms and ninety-four miles from San Diego, news analysts note.

Then in June a 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck centered eight miles east of Coachella. The quake was ten miles outside of Indio and Mecca. The quake was less then twenty-eight miles east of Palm Springs. The quake was also ninety-one miles from San Diego, officials remind news.
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Cloud Lightning

Arkansas: Tornado hits Baptist Boys Ranch

Linda Russell, Mike Coonrod
KY3
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 05:53 UTC

Several homes and a boys ranch were damaged in the storms north of Harrison (Arkansas) Thursday night. The tornado touched down around 12:30 AM. The National Weather Service was in the area assessing damage Friday and confirms it was a small tornado that hit the area near Center Loop Road and Quincy Lane. That same tornado continued east, eventually striking the Arkansas Baptist Boys Ranch.

27 teenage boys in four separate houses all had a rude awakening; Some to a tornado warning, moments before it hit, while others were surprised by the storm. House parent Danae Stevens says, "I remember hearing a bunch of wind and all kinds of crazy weather stuff going on, and then I heard zzzzzz over us, and I'm like Aaron, what's going on?"

Stevens and her husband met the boys of Arapaho house in the living room, where they found what the storm left behind, chimney stones and pieces of the ceiling.

"I just mainly was concerned about them and concerned about the fact that we have no roof on our house, and making sure everybody had shoes and socks on, so they wouldn't step on anything," says Stevens.
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Large sinkhole closes road in Durban, South Africa


The Citizen (South Africa)
Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:41 UTC
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The sinkhole appeared in Essenwood and St Thomas roads in Durban.
A large sinkhole appeared in Essenwood and St Thomas roads in Durban late on Thursday afternoon, forcing authorities to close the roads.

Durban Rescue Care operations director Garrith Jamieson said paramedics were called to a "road collapse" on Thursday.

"Previously paramedics have attended to the same intersection for the same incident where a vehicle actually fell into the hole," said Jamieson."Fortunately this time no vehicle was involved. The road was quickly cordoned off and all the necessary authorities are on the scene to try and fix the situation."
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Cloud Lightning

First tornado of the season touches down in north Alabama

Paul Gattis
Alabama News
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:40 UTC
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© NWS
Radar image from the National Weather Service forecast office in Huntsville when a tornado warning was issued for DeKalb County on Friday night 4.3.15. The weather service confirmed on Saturday that an EF-1 tornado touched down briefly in the Ider community.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in DeKalb County on Friday night, the National Weather Service forecast office confirmed following a storm survey on Saturday.

The weather service classified the tornado as an EF-1 with top wind speeds estimated at 105 mph.

It's the first confirmed tornado in north Alabama in 2015 and the first in the state since Jan. 4.

Comment: Also see: Storms, fires, and floods sweep across American South and Midwest - more severe weather on its way

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Two injured after vehicle plunges into sinkhole in Sheffield Beach, South Africa


Citizen.co.za
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:00 UTC
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© Allan Johns
The beach buggy dived into the deep sinkhole on Sheffield Drive.
Two people were injured after their vehicle drove into a sinkhole at the intersection of Colwyn and Sheffield drives in Sheffield Beach, on KwaZulu-Natal's Dolphin Coast last night.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said reports from the scene indicated the people had been travelling in the heavy rain when their vehicle plunged into a sinkhole.

"Paramedics arrived at the scene and found that the people managed to escape from the wreckage of their vehicle. After medics treated them at the scene, they transported the injured to a local hospital for the care that they required," he said.
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Bizarro Earth

Multiple earthquakes shake Los Angeles area over a period of three hours

Kelly Taylor
MyFoxLA
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:43 UTC
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A series of earthquakes, the largest magnitude 3.1, shook the Oat Mountain area north of the San Fernando Valley Saturday.

Automated seismographs reported a series of six quakes, most in the 1-2 magnitude, starting at 7:45 a.m.

The largest quakes were magnitude 2.7 at 7:52 and magnitude 3.1 at 7:54, according to preliminary automated reports that have not been reviewed by humans.

A magnitude 2.0 temblor hit the mountain at 10:14 a.m.

As a precaution, Los Angeles city fire trucks were rolled out of station houses, where garage doors can jam or stall if a major quake occurs.

Seismologists routinely give a 10 percent chance of a major shaker following what turns out to be a foreshock.

Firefighters also scanned bridges and buildings near their station houses, which is the standard drill following a quake. No damage was found.

Persons reported to the USGS that they felt weak shaking in the northern half of the San Fernando Valley, and in across Santa Clarita, and as far away as Westlake Village, Glendale and the Antelope Valley.
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Attention

Strayed wild elephant gores man to death in Bengal, India


indileak.com
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:27 UTC
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Some irate Asian elephants
In a sad incident, a young man was gored and killed by a wild elephant herd in Bankura district of West Bengal on Saturday.

According to information, the incident occurred in Kuchkunda village under Barjora forest range of the district in the early hours of Saturday while the 25-year-old man was sleeping outside his house.

A senior forest official said that the village in which the incident occurred is situated on the periphery of a heavily forested tract.

He said that a herd of four elephants had strayed into the village in search of food and water. "The victim was sleeping outside his house when he was unfortunately attacked by one of the four elephants."
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Common murre (guillemot) die-off along the waterfront in Seward, Alaska

Heidi Zemach
Seward City News
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 19:37 UTC
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Common murre carcass found Sunday at Lowell Point beach.
If you've walked Seward waterfronts lately, you might have come across the carcasses of common murres or you might have spotted bald eagles feasting on them. There's been a lot of the carcasses spotted, and people are calling in, said Dr. Carrie Goertz, a staff veterinarian at Alaska SeaLife Center who also helps manage the stranding program and disaster response. Most of the murres are very thin and emaciated, indicating starvation, she said.

The phenomenon is apparently a murre die-off, or "wreck," and is probably caused by these small marine birds having exhausted their nutritional reserves, with the sudden bouts of cold temperatures and waves of poor weather in mid to late March pushing them over the edge to their deaths. Also, the fish biomass may not have coincided with when they were in the area, plus in a weakened state they're easier prey for predators, or to get hit by cars, the latter two of which she saw examples of in the bird carcasses brought in to ASLC, Goertz said.

The center vets did some cursory examinations of the murres they found, but are sending them to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey for more in-depth examinations.
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