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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2015 15:51:51 GMT
A British woman is feared dead after her cruise boat hit a rock and sank within a minute in south-east Asia on Saturday. Searches are continuing for BBC worker Johanna Powell after the traditional wooden cruise boat she was travelling in hit a rock in a stretch of rapids along the Mekong river near Pak Beng, Laos. Ms Powell, from Cardiff, disappeared in the strong current as the boat's crew, tour guide and other passengers, including her friends, swam to safety. A spokesman for BBC Wales said they are "very concerned" for Ms Powell and are supporting her family. Adisak Star, the co-owner of cruise company Negi of Mekong that owned the boat, said Ms Powell was travelling with three female friends who all survived. "The boat has a steel bottom but is otherwise made of wood hit a rock in the rapids and sank in a minute," he told Mail Online. "It was that fast. Everyone on board went into the water but there were rocks for people to cling to. They were all able to get to the river bank except for Ms Powell." A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We can confirm that a British national has been reported missing following a cruise boat incident on the Mekong river near Pak Beng, Laos. "We are liaising closely with the local authorities and are providing consular assistance to the family." A huge search across 20km of the isolated river is currently underway. One of Ms Powell's colleagues described her as "lovely, outgoing and always smiling". The University of East Anglia graduate, who also helps to run a hotel, was on a three-week holiday in south-east Asia. She spent Friday night on a chartered boat and had an overnight stay at the DP guesthouse in the village of Pakbeng, before setting sail on the wooden cruise at 8am on Saturday, Mail Online reports.
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2015 15:53:10 GMT
A man is to appear in court after remains believed to be those of a missing Irish student were found on a farm. Officers searching for 24-year-old Karen Buckley made the discovery close to Milngavie, north of Glasgow. A 21-year-old man has been arrested and police said they were "following a definite line of enquiry". He is due in court on Friday. Ms Buckley was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning after a night out in Glasgow. The student, from Cork, vanished after spending the night with friends at the city's Sanctuary nightclub. She told them at around 1am she was going to the toilet but failed to return and left her jacket behind. CCTV shows her leaving the club. The student began an occupational therapy degree at Glasgow Caledonian University in February and was previously a nurse at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Harlow, Essex. Police she had travelled widely and knew how to take care of herself. Her parents flew from Ireland to help with the search and told a news conference they were "desperate" for help. Hundreds of people have attended a mass at a church close to the Buckley family home in north Cork, and Irish foreign minister Charlie Flanagan said: "All of our thoughts and prayers are with Karen's parents, John and Marian, and with all of her family and friends at this tragic time."
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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2015 12:58:39 GMT
The mystery of a missing Long Island mother and her teenage daughter deepened Saturday as authorities admitted they have no leads and relatives said they have no answers. Iona Costello, 51, and 14-year-old child Emily vanished without a trace March 30 after taking a trip to Manhattan. Costello’s car was found inside a W. 42nd St. parking garage on Wednesday night. But there’s still no sign of the well-known Greenport widow or her adorable daughter. “The first thing we look for in these types of investigations is telephone calls, emails and credit card use,” Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley told the Daily News. “We’ve heard different theories from different people,” Flatley added. “It’s all speculation at this point.” Costello, who runs a horse farm in the quaint seaside town on the tip of the North Fork, has been “under a lot of stress” fueled by a legal battle over her dead husband’s will, a family member told The News. Costello was married to George Costello Sr., a construction manager who died of a heart attack on Dec. 28, 2012. The will signed by the thrice-married George Costello, 63, who co-owned Costello Marine Contracting, which builds docks and bulkheads, left everything to Iona and Emily. The will is being contested by four children from his previous marriages, records show. “She can’t sell anything. She can’t do anything because everything is in court,” the family member said of Iona. “She’s been under a lot of pressure.” Still, the relative said family members have no clue what might be behind the Costellos’ disappearance. “I don’t know if she’s having a nervous breakdown. I don’t know if somebody has kidnapped them,” the relative said. “We have no idea. The family is berserk.” Family members reported the pair missing after Emily, a student at the exclusive Ross School in East Hampton, failed to return to class Tuesday following spring break. The boarding school’s alumni include Billy Joel’s daughter, Alexa, and Scott Disick, the hotheaded babby daddy of reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian.
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2015 6:18:32 GMT
LaSalle Parish Sheriff Scott Franklin has released the name of the suspect in this week's double homicide. Randy Eugene Waits was taken into custody today, and is charged with two counts of 1st degree murder. No other information has been released. Kylie King Duncan was last seen on Wednesday in Urania. Sheriff Franklin tells KTVE/KARD investigators found Duncan Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, deputies continue to investigate the murder of 73-year-old Erma Cotton. Ms. Cotton was shot and killed in her home on Pentecostal Church Road Wednesday morning. The body of 19-year-old Kylie King Duncan has been found just miles away from the home where she went missing this week. LaSalle Parish Sheriff Scott Franklin tells KNOE that Duncan's body was located Thursday afternoon, just a day after she was reported missing. Wednesday, deputies received a call from family of Erma Cotton, 76, who was unreachable. Deputies went to her home where the found Cotton dead of an apparent gunshot wound. Kylie Duncan, who was pregnant, was at the adjacent property that day working to have the electricity turned on, when she was reported missing.
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2015 5:28:32 GMT
Rahma El-Dennaoui was just 19 months old when she disappeared from her family home in Sydney's south-western suburbs, in the early hours of November 10, 2005. An extensive investigation, including land and air searches, and a coronial inquest found no sign of the toddler and no reason given for her disappearance. However, almost 10 years on, police may be closer to finding out just who is responsible. In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Australia, Detective Chief Inspector Pamela Young from the NSW Homicide Squad, revealed that her team is working with 'hundreds of pieces of information'. 'The passage of time often brings with it new chances for us,' she said. She wouldn't elaborate on what the 'new chances' of a breakthrough are but with the increased reward of $250,000, bumped up from $100,000 in 2012 (see video), in place for anyone with information which may lead to an arrest, more details have begun to emerge. 'There must always be an element of surprise with our strategies so we can’t always let the community know what actions we are taking,' Det Insp Young said. 'One thing is for sure, we are not leaving Rahma alone out there until we know what has happened to her.' The events of the early hours of November 10, 2005, when 19-month-old Rahma El-Dennaoui disappeared, remain as mysterious now as they were for investigators back then. She went missing from the Hill Road, Lurnea home between 2am and 8am that day, while sleeping alongside two of her sisters. Investigators found that a fly screen to the bedroom had been cut. Almost 10 years have passed, bringing with them 'hundreds of pieces of information' and an inconclusive coronial inquest later, the Task Force led by Detective
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