SEPANG — Lelaki tersepit di bawah teksi selepas dilanggar kenderaan itu ketika mangsa keluar memeriksa keretanya yang terbabit dalam kemalangan berhampiran Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) Terminal 2, di sini, hari ini.
Penolong Pengarah Bahagian Operasi Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia (JBPM) Selangor, Ahmad Mukhlis Mukhtar berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan pada 6.57 pagi ini sebelum pegawai dan anggota bomba dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) KLIA ke lokasi kejadian.
Menurutnya, kemalangan membabitkan tiga kereta di mana seorang lelaki berusia 40-an tersepit di bawah teksi dan tidak sedarkan diri.
“Mangsa sebelum itu keluar dari keretanya yang terbabit kemalangan sebelum sebuah teksi terlanggar mangsa menyebabkan dia tersepit di bawah kenderaan itu.
“Kerja penyelamatan sedang dijalankan,” katanya dalam kenyataan, hari ini.
IPOH — Seorang guru besar sekolah rendah di Teluk Intan, didenda RM10,000 oleh Mahkamah Sesyen hari ini, selepas mengaku bersalah menggunakan jawatan untuk memalsukan dokumen, tiga tahun lalu.
Pengakuan bersalah oleh Rosnah Mat Zain, 57, dibuat atas pertuduhan pilihan mengikut Seksyen 471 Kanun Keseksaan.
Dalam penghakimannya, Hakim Datuk Ibrahim Osman menetapkan Rosnah dipenjara sebulan jika gagal membayar denda, namun tertuduh membayar denda dikenakan.
Mengikut pertuduhan, Rosnah didakwa menggunakan suatu dokumen sebagai tulen iaitu Invois Brickwork Resource bertarikh 6 Disember 2021 kepada sebuah sekolah rendah di Teluk Intan untuk pembayaran pembelian alat muzik piano digital berserta bangku hitam berjumlah RM10,200 yang mana dokumen itu adalah palsu.
Perbuatan itu dilakukan di sebuah sekolah rendah di Teluk Intan, pada 9 Disember 2021.
Bagi kesalahan itu, dia didakwa mengikut Seksyen 471 Kanun Keseksaan dan sabit kesalahan boleh dipenjara maksimum dua tahun atau denda atau kedua-duanya.
Mengikut fakta kes, tertuduh memilih syarikat milik menantunya bagi kerja pembekalan alat muzik yang mana tertuduh mempunyai kepentingan.
Pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Sharul Azuan Ghazali dan Maziah Mansor, manakala tertuduh tidak diwakili peguam.
Selepas membacakan keputusan penghakimannya, Ibrahim menasihati tertuduh bertaubat dan berhati-hati membuat keputusan sebagai penjawat awam.
“Selepas ini berhati-hatilah dalam membuat keputusan sebagai penjawat awam. Ini baru (hukuman) dunia, belum akhirat. Bertaubatlah,” katanya.
TOKYO — Syphilis infections in Tokyo are increasing at a record pace, with over 2,400 cases reported so far this year, official data has shown.
Some 2,460 cases have been reported in the capital, data from the Tokyo Metropolitan Infectious Disease Surveillance Center showed, with experts noting an acceleration at a pace to approach last year’s all-time annual high of 3,701.
Men accounted for about 70 percent of the cases, while women made up 30 percent, the data showed. Infections were particularly rising among men in their 20s to 50s and women in their 20s.
Many infected individuals mistakenly believed they were safe because they knew their partners or were unaware of their infection for years, highlighting syphilis as an often overlooked disease, according to the institute.
To address the record-breaking increases in syphilis cases, Tokyo has established free, anonymous testing and consultation rooms in areas such as Shinjuku and Tama.
Tests are also available at public health centers, with the Shinjuku center offering 24-hour online reservations and weekend testing.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has urged residents to get tested immediately should they have any concerns.
Congenital syphilis, transmitted chiefly through sexual contact, can cause rashes and abnormalities in newborns. Infected children can develop symptoms such as inflammation of the eyes and hearing loss in a few years, even if they show no symptoms as infants.
A complete cure is possible for the disease if proper treatment is given at an early stage, but serious complications may develop in the brain and heart if syphilis is left untreated.
GAZA — At least nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said Tuesday.
The Israeli aircraft attacked the home of Dr. Akram al-Najjar from Al-Quds Open University on Gaza Street in Jabalia, killing nine people, including three children and two women, and injuring others in neighboring houses, said Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza.
Civil defense teams are still working to rescue the missing, who are potentially under the rubble of the targeted house and its adjacent buildings, Bassal added.
The deceased and injured have been taken to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, Bassal noted.
So far, there has been no comment from the Israeli side on the attack.
Israel has launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others taken hostage.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza has risen to 41,020, local health authorities said in a statement on Tuesday.
A tunnel that is said to be where six Israeli hostages were found killed is seen in this still image taken from a handout video released on September 10, 2024. Israeli Army/Handout via REUTERS
JERUSALEM — Blood on the ground of a dark, cramped tunnel sealed by an iron door, bullets and a chess set are seen in a video released by the Israeli military of the passageway deep underground where it said six slain hostages were held and killed by Hamas.
The video was filmed by the military last Friday, its spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said, as a forensic team investigated the hostage deaths. It was released to the public on Tuesday after it had been viewed by their families and the Israeli security cabinet.
The six hostages were killed on the night of Aug. 29, Hagari said. Their bodies were found and retrieved by Israeli soldiers in the southern Gaza area of Rafah around two days later.
Hagari said at least two Hamas gunmen shot them dead in the tunnel, which is 20 metres (66 ft) below ground, less than 170 centimetres (5.6 ft) high and about 80 centimetres (32 inches) wide. It has an exit shaft used by the militants, below a children’s room in a house.
The hostages had likely been held in the dank tunnel, where it is hard to breathe and to stand up straight, for some time, possibly weeks, Hagari said.
A version of the video with English narration shows Kalashnikov rifle magazines, bags containing plastic bottles filled with urine and a bucket in a hole that served as a toilet. Women’s clothing is strewn on the ground. The Hebrew version, broadcast live on Israeli television channels, also shows a chess set.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the location or the date when the video was filmed.
Israeli troops were in the area, fighting Hamas militants above ground, when the hostages were killed, Hagari said, adding that the soldiers had not been attempting a rescue operation. The military did not have precise verified intelligence about the hostages’ presence in the area, he said.
The six dead hostages were two women and four men aged between 23 and 40, five of whom were taken from the Nova dance festival attacked by militants on Oct. 7 last year.
One of them was a father whose baby was born after he was taken hostage. The killings have sparked outrage and an outpouring of grief in Israel.
Efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza that would include a hostage release deal have faltered, with Israel and Hamas trading blame for the deadlock. Mass protests last week demanded Israeli leaders do more for their release.
Hamas-led fighters took around 250 foreign and Israeli hostages when they burst into Israel on Oct. 7 and killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians since. Around 100 hostages remain in Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed dead. More than 100 hostages were released in return for Palestinian prisoners in November and eight have been rescued by Israeli forces.
This Feb 19, 2003 file photo shows Mont Blanc, western Europe’s highest mountain. (AP/File)
PARIS — French rescue officials said Tuesday they found the bodies of two Italian and two South Korean climbers close to the peak of Mont Blanc on the French side after they went missing over the weekend in bad weather.
The Chamonix-Mont Blanc search and rescue team found the two pairs of climbers at an altitude of 4,700 meters (more than 15,400 feet) on the Alps’ highest peak. They died of hypothermia, rescue officials said.
The unaccompanied climbers had alerted rescuers on Saturday afternoon, but weather conditions continued to deteriorate, preventing rescuers from reaching their location from the ground or by helicopter.
Two other Korean climbers were successfully rescued on Sunday morning at an altitude of 4,100 meters (more than 13,400 feet) after rescuers deployed a highly complex operation.
AL-MUKALLA — Two students were killed and at least 10 were injured in a stampede at a Yemeni school caused by US and UK airstrikes in the southern province of Taiz, Houthi media said on Tuesday.
The Houthi-run Al-Masirah channel reported that American and British jets carried out strikes on a location, believed to be a military base, near Aiysha school in Taiz’s Al-Janad, causing frightened students to stampede through the school’s doors, killing two and injuring at least 10.
Houthi media broadcast footage from a local medical facility in Taiz, showing what appeared to be the bodies of two dead female students wrapped in white garments while other wounded students received treatment.
The reported strikes by US and UK aircraft are the latest in a series of military operations against Houthi targets in response to the militia’s attacks on ships.
On Tuesday, Monday and Sunday, the Houthis reported that US and UK aircraft struck Ibb, Hodeidah and Taiz, respectively.
Abdul Basit Al-Baher, a Yemeni military officer in Taiz, told Arab News that Al-Janad in Taiz has at least five military bases, and he believes the warplanes may have targeted the Al-Janad army base, which is the closest military site to the school.
Al-Baher said that the Tariq Air Base is Al-Janad’s largest military base, where “Iranian and Lebanese military experts assemble missiles and drones.”
It came as Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea claimed on Tuesday that militia forces shot down a new US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the northern province of Saada, the second such claim in less than a week and the ninth since the militia’s anti-ship campaign began in November.
On Saturday, the Houthis claimed to have shot down a US MQ-9 drone that was carrying out “hostile operations” over the central provinces of Marib.
Unlike previous videos released following their announcements, the Houthis have not broadcast footage of the latest two drones being shot down to support their claims.
At the same time, US Central Command said on Tuesday morning that its forces destroyed two Houthi missile systems and one support vehicle in Houthi-held Yemeni territory, as well as one Houthi drone over the Red Sea, over the previous 24 hours.
During the past 10 months, the Houthis have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles, drones and drone boats at international commercial and naval ships in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and other seas, claiming to be acting in support of Palestinians against Israel’s war in Gaza.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had killed three senior Hamas militants in strikes on a designated safe zone in southern Gaza.
The strikes targeted a crowded tent camp housing displaced Palestinians in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, killing at least 19 people, with more being trapped under the rubble, according to Gaza-based health authorities.
Video footage on social media showed dozens of tents caught on fire and large craters resulting from the strikes.
The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that it attacked the location, describing it as an intelligence-based “precise strike” targeting “senior Hamas terrorists operating within a command and control center embedded inside the humanitarian area in Khan Younis.”
According to the Israeli military, the strikes killed Samer Ismail Khadr Abu Daqqa, head of Hamas’s aerial unit in the Gaza Strip, Osama Tabesh, head of the observation and targets department in Hamas’s military intelligence headquarters, and Ayman Mabhouh, a senior Hamas militant.
The three militants were “directly involved” in the Hamas attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and had been “recently planning terror activities against the Israel Defense Forces and the State of Israel,” the military said.
Later, the Israeli army conducted another attack on the Al-Farouq Mosque in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. The army said the attack aimed to destroy another Hamas command and control center located within the mosque.
The Palestinian news agency Quds News reported an unspecified number of casualties and injuries in Bureij.
OSLO — Norway condemned the massacre committed by the Israeli army on Tuesday against displaced citizens’ tents in the safe humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi in the city of Khan Yunis in the southwestern Gaza Strip.
Norway’s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, said in a post on X that all parties have an obligation to protect civilians in warfare.
“The presence of armed groups does not nullify the obligation to comply with international humanitarian law.”
“The war must end,’ he said.
The Israeli army’s shelling of displaced people’s tents in the Mawasi area this morning killed at least 40 civilians and wounded 60 others, with scores of people still missing under the rubble.
TULKAREM — Two Palestinians were fatally shot on Monday by Israeli forces’ live fire in the city of Tulkarem, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health said that two Palestinians, including a female, were shot dead by the Israeli forces.
The slain Palestinian was identified as Ahmad Majduba, 24. The identity of the slain female is still unknown.
Earlier, Israeli military jeeps stormed the city of Tulkarem and its camp and besieged the Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.
At least 10 other Palestinians were injured in the military incursion and transferred to hospital. Their wounds were described as moderate to mild.
