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India launches investigation after WHO said 66 children in Gambia died due to contaminated cough syrup
By CNN's Swati Gupta in New Delhi
Indian authorities have launched an investigation after the World Health Organization (WHO) made an allegation that contaminated cough and cold syrup imported from India to The Gambia resulted in the deaths of at least 66 children, a report said. source from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India.
“The WHO today issued a medical product alert for four contaminated medicines identified in The Gambia that have been potentially linked to acute kidney injury and 66 deaths among children.
The loss of these young lives is beyond heartbreaking for their families.
All four medicines are cough and cold syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited, in India,” according to the WHO.
The medicine is suspected to be contaminated with diethylene glycol or ethylene glycol based on analysis by the WHO.
Of the 23 samples tested by the WHO, four were found to be contaminated.
The Indian Central Drug Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) is inquiring with drug regulators in the Indian state of Haryana, where the manufacturing of the allegedly tainted drug occurred, according to the source.
The Indian authorities have requested the WHO to provide a more detailed report on the "establishment of a causal relationship to death with the medical products in question, photos of labels/products, etc."
4 mins ago
At least 30 killed in a shooting at a kindergarten in Thailand
By Kocha Olarn
A shooting at a nursery school in Nong Bua Lamphu province, northeastern Thailand, has left at least 30 people dead, according to a statement from the country's prime minister.
"The prime minister expressed his condolences for the shooting at a child development center in Uthai Sawan Na Klang district, Nong Bua Lamphu, which resulted in 30 deaths," the statement read.
"The prime minister has ordered all the authorities involved to stop the incident and provide assistance in arresting the perpetrator as soon as possible," he continued.
It is not immediately clear if the 30 dead are all children.
7 mins ago
18 dead, including mayor, in armed attack on the mayor's office of San Miguel Totolapan, in southern Mexico
By Gerardo Lemos and Alberto Bello
At least 18 people were killed, including the mayor of a town in southern Mexico, after an armed attack on the mayor's office, according to the Gurrero state peace coordinator.
The group said armed civilians entered the San Miguel Totolapan city hall on Wednesday and began shooting.
Two people were also injured in the incident, he added.
Both the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, Conrado Mendoza Almeda, and the former mayor died in the attack, says the statement from the Coordinating Table for the Construction of Peace in Guerrero.
State Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda said she "deeply regrets" Almeda's death in a series of tweets Wednesday.
"Our commitment is firm, we will not take a step back to provide security to the population of San Miguel Totolapan and our entire region of Tierra Caliente," Almeda wrote.
He said he had instructed the state public security secretary to visit the city hall where the incident occurred and asked the state attorney general to promptly investigate the attack.
10 mins ago
New York City Councilmembers Oppose Mayor's Plan for Immigrant Help Center on Randall's Island
By CNN
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New York City Council members, including Speaker Adrienne Adams, say they have "big concerns" about the city's mayor's plan to move the Bronx's immigrant relief center to Randall's Island, so they have suggested other places, including Manhattan hotels, that could "deliver emergency relief in a more humane way."
“While an emergency relief center that provides more effective intake services for asylum seekers than the Port Authority makes sense, neither the open-air locations of Orchard Beach nor Randall's Island are adequate,” said Chair Adrienne Adams in a statement this Wednesday.
“Given its own risks of flooding in the midst of hurricane season and cooler temperatures from exposure to the East River as winter approaches, Randall's Island is not compatible with humanitarian aid.
There are better options that New York City should explore to provide healthier and safer conditions for people who have already experienced so much trauma."
Council leaders highlighted 10 large hotels and more than 70 closed hotels that could be evaluated for conversion to housing, according to the statement.
There are more than 15,000 rooms across the city that could be considered, they added.
The council noted The Times Square, a former hotel that was purchased in 1991 and is a permanent supportive housing residence with more than 650 units.
The building provides on-site services for low-income and formerly homeless adults, New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and more, according to the release.
Vice Chair Diana Ayla, chair of the Council's General Welfare Committee, said permanent housing for those in shelters is a critical step in solving the problem.
“…We need to address the root of the problem, which is the lack of supportive housing and the ongoing bureaucracy to get permanent housing for people who are already in our shelter system,” Ayla said.
“We cannot afford to continue to expand our temporary shelter system without focusing on expanding opportunities for people to transition from shelter to permanent and stabilizing housing opportunities.
We urge the mayor to seriously reconsider this proposal and move forward with a plan that provides safer and more humane conditions for those seeking help in our city,” added Ayla.
Mayor Eric Adams responded to some of the Council's remarks Thursday night in an interview with CNN affiliate Spectrum News NY1.
“I'm glad they're coming in the spirit of cooperation to come up with a solution,” Adams said.
“If we are going to criticize what we are doing during this humanitarian crisis created by human hands, then we should have great ideas.”
"If they have any specific hotels that they're talking about, I look forward to sitting down with the council and Councilwoman Adrienne Adams, our president, and coming up with those solutions."
18 mins ago
They find dead the four members of a family who had been kidnapped in California
By Taylor Romine
The four family members who went missing in Merced, California, on Monday have been found dead, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said Wednesday night.
"Tonight, our worst fears have been confirmed," he said as he gave an update.
The suspect who was taken into custody Tuesday is speaking with police, Warnke said, but he declined to disclose details of the communications.
"We got information on the suspect, we're going to keep that quiet at this point"... "But, the suspect has indeed been talking to us," Warnke said, adding that his office is working on identifying a motive to the alleged actions of the suspect.
“We have an entire family wiped out, and for what?
We don't know yet,” she said.
The family was found in an "extremely rural farming area" around 5:30 pm PT when a local farm worker discovered the bodies while he was working, Warnke said.
The sheriff's department responded shortly after, he said.
Warnke said they were found "relatively together" but did not say how they died.
Cell phones found earlier in the investigation are "very close" to where the bodies were found, Warnke said.
Authorities are working to preserve and document the crime scene so they can achieve a full conviction, Warnke said.
They have "a lot of circumstantial evidence and direct evidence" in this case, she added.
"There are no words to describe the anger I feel and the senselessness of this incident," Warnke said.
"I've said it before, there's a special place in hell for this guy, and I mean it."
The family of Aroohi Dheri, 8 months old;
Her parents, Jasleen Kaur and Jasdeep Singh, and the boy's uncle, Amandeep Singh, have been informed and have been given spiritual resources to help them through this, she said.
28 mins ago
US Moves Carrier Strike Group Near Korea After North Korea Missile Launch
By Brad Lendon, Yoonjung Seo and Caitlin Hu
The United States is moving a Navy carrier strike group into waters off the Korean peninsula as tensions rise after a series of North Korean missile launches in the past two weeks, security officials said. South Korea.
South Korea's National Security Council (NSC) held an emergency meeting on Thursday after North Korea launched two more short-range ballistic missiles, the sixth such launch in 12 days, the country's Presidential Office said. it's a statement.
The NSC warned that North Korea's provocation will face a stronger response, as evidenced by the redeployment of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and its strike group to the East Sea, also known as the Sea of ​​Japan, following Pyongyang's launch. of a long-range ballistic missile (IRBM), which flew over Japan on Tuesday.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff also said Wednesday that the US carrier strike group would be redeployed to the Sea of ​​Japan, in what it characterized as a "highly unusual" move meant to "demonstrate the resolute will of the US-South Korea alliance to respond decisively to any provocation or threat from North Korea.”
When asked about South Korea's statement on the Reagan's movements, a spokesman for the US 7th Fleet Joint Chiefs of Staff told CNN: "The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is currently operating in the Sea of ​​Japan”.
The Navy said it does not comment on future operations.
South Korea's statement about the US Navy strike group's movements drew a harsh response from Pyongyang.
“The DPRK is observing that the US poses a serious threat to the stability of the situation on and around the Korean Peninsula by redeploying the aircraft carrier task force to the waters off the Korean Peninsula,” reads a statement by the North Korean Foreign Ministry, published on the state-owned Korea Central News Agency.
Pyongyang's missile launches on Thursday are the 24th such tests this year, including ballistic and cruise missiles, the highest annual tally since Kim Jong Un took power in 2012.
It closely followed a highly provocative launch by the isolated country on Tuesday when North Korea fired a ballistic missile without warning at Japan, the first in five years, prompting Tokyo to urge northern residents to take shelter.
The United States and South Korea responded with missile launches and exercises on the Korean peninsula on Tuesday and Wednesday.
