Crane accident: Families of Nigerian victims to get N70m each

Families of the six Nigerian pilgrims who lost their lives in the Friday September 11th crane accident at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca are to receive N70m each as compensation from the Saudi Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

The king had ordered that families of each of the 111 people who lost their lives in the accident be paid compensation of (SR1,000,000) one million Saudi Riyals which is N70 million in Naira equivalent. Six Nigerian pilgrims including one pilgrim from Kaduna and five others from Gombe state died in the unfortunate incident.

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Little girl suffers severe burns after transformer explodes at Lagos bus-stop

12 year old Adetayo Adefarasin, a student of Government Junior College, Epe, suffered severe burns to her face, chest, arm and legs after a faulty transformer exploded along Broad street, Lagos as she was trying to board a bus while returning from church on September 20th.

ISIS executes man by running him over with armoured tank

My goodness! Everyday these terrorists look for more barbaric ways to kill people. But why not run, why stand there and wait for an armoured tank to crush you? The worst they will do is shoot you dead if you keep running...and is that not better than this? The photos are horrific. Continue...

Father cradles, kisses his dead 3yr old killed in Israeli airstrike

A Palestinian father cradled, kissed and cried as he said goodbye to his 3 year old daughter, Rahaf who was killed alongside her pregnant 30-year-old mum, Noor Hassan in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, on Sunday, October 11, when their house collapsed. The Israeli army said that its planes were targeting two Hamas weapons-manufacturing sites in the area and not civilians. The mother and child were buried today. See more photos after the cut

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