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A baby born with two heads, three arms and two hearts has left doctors stunned in India.
The parents — Shaheen Khan and Sohail — were expecting two fully formed twins but were shocked when they gave birth to a baby with two heads on March 28 in Ratlam, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
The condition is known as dicephalic parapagus, where two infants are joined by one torso — and often results in a stillbirth.
The mother told a local news agency: “It was a mixed feeling when the nurses handed over the baby to me.
“Initially, I thought it was a twin, but when the nurses removed the towel, I was shocked to see our firstborn with two heads and three hands.
“All we wanted was a normal and healthy baby, but the Almighty wanted to punish us this way. I don’t know why.”
Angry pastor demolishes church
The senior pastor of Evangelical Church in Tana River County, Kenya, has demolished his church in anger after he caught his wife and the assistant pastor having a romantic moment after a prayer vigil.
According to Nairobi News, the preacher is said to have caught his wife kissing the assistant pastor in church.
Joan Mulei, a member of the worship team, said the pastor and the wife left immediately after the service, only for the pastor’s wife to return a few minutes later.
“People had already left and only the assistant pastor and a few worship team members stayed behind for a meeting when she walked in and joined in the meeting that would later end prematurely,” she said.
Ms Mulei says the pastor’s wife kept making the meeting as brief as possible by interjecting each statement and giving immediate proposals. The group ended the meeting with a prayer and proceeded home, leaving behind the youthful assistant pastor and the reverend’s wife, who appeared to be holding another exclusive meeting.
“While we were walking home, we met the senior pastor at the junction to the church. He looked worried and asked if we had seen his wife, we told him she was still held in a meeting with his assistant,” she said.
The pastor headed towards the church to pick up his wife as he feared for her because of the rise in murder cases by the Kayole Brothers gang.
On arrival at the church, he found the lights switched off and the main door closed.
He decided to use the rear door, where he was shocked to find his wife entangled in the arms of his assistant, lost in a passionate kiss.
“We heard a man scream, Yesuuu!!!Yesu!!! And we thought he had been attacked, so we ran to his rescue since we knew the voice of the pastor, only to find him bringing down the church while the wife was pleading with him to settle,” said Ali Mohammed, a resident living near the church.
The teary man of God demolished the iron-sheet-made building in the night and immediately hired some youth to carry them away.
Immediately after, he left the town for an unknown place and has not picked up calls since.
The wife has since left her matrimonial home, leaving the church members in a dilemma.
Reached for comment, the youthful assistant pastor said “it was devil’s work”.
He claimed that the pastor’s wife coerced him into the act, denying that they have been having an affair.
“I don’t even know how it got that far, I only came to my senses when the pastor shouted my name upon catching us,” he said.
Church members have resolved to rebuild the church and cleanse the altar of sin.
Some church elders have also resolved to dismiss the assistant pastor from the church and look for their senior pastor for talks and counselling.
Man lives in an airport for 14 years
Living with family can be overbearing sometimes and many may feel annoyed and trapped by constant pestering.
For Wei Jianguo, a Chinese man who is in his 60s, the solution has been to move to Beijing Capital International Airport, where he is understood to have been living for 14 years now, so that he can smoke and drink as much as he likes.
Mirroring Tom Hanks’ Viktor Navorsk in the 2004 movie “The Terminal” — where a tourist is forced to live at JFK airport — Mr Wei has a set-up of his food, belongings and sleeping bag in a waiting area.
He said he will not return home because then, he will be forced to quit drinking and smoking — a habit he supplies with his monthly government allowance.
In 2018, he told China Daily: “I can’t go back home because I have no freedom there.
“My family told me if I wanted to stay, I had to quit smoking and drinking.
“If I couldn’t do that, I had to give them all my monthly government allowance of 1 000 yuan (US$157). But then how would I buy my cigarettes and alcohol?”
Mr Wei’s home is in Wangjing, around 12 miles away (19,3 kilometres) from the airport.
He moved in 2008 and had settled at Terminal 2, which is ‘the warmest’ but he sometimes visits Terminal 3.
The man said that he had given up looking for work and was let go from a job where he worked at an internal combustion engine factory in his 40s for being “too old”.
While he goes out if he needs to do any shopping, he does not like to leave the airport.
Staff at the airport said Mr Wei is “harmless, albeit being a loud drunk”.
One worker said that Mr Wei had been encouraged to leave a few times, but “every time we mentioned it he was drunk and lost his temper”.
He added that the airport dweller does not bother passengers and — with the terminals being warm — does not “freeze” in the Shunyi Disctrict’s cold winters, in which temperatures can plunge as low as -13C (8.6F).
Criminal fakes death to escape prosecution
An 18-year-old man from Lusaka, Zambia, faked his own death to avoid being prosecuted.
Emmanuel Belama, together with three other accomplices, is being charged over alleged possession of prescribed trophies.
When the matter came up for continued trial in February this year before Lusaka resident magistrate Felix Kaoma, Belama was not in court.
One of his sureties, Raymond Hakaloba, informed the court that the accused was not present because he had allegedly died while in Katete in January this year.
The surety told the court that Belama’s two female relatives had given him the accused’s death certificate, which he then presented before court.
Magistrate Kaoma then adjourned the case for return of bench warrant against Belama.
But when the case resumed on March 28, 2022 for return of bench warrant, a public prosecutor, Aaron Tuntuluka, informed the court that the accused was arrested in Katete and was before court.
The prosecutor also informed the court that the accused’s death certificate was forged.
The two women who presented the forged death certificate to court will be charged with presenting the court with a false document. — Wires.
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