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According to local news reports a successful Hong Kong architect fell 19 floors trying to prevent childhood friend to commit suicide.

Leung Kam-kong was 28 years old. He was honored at an Design awards ceremony just a few hours before the tragedy, the South China Morning Post reported.

News reports say that according to the police sources Leung went to the help his childhood friend Chan Kei-tai, a 27-year-old, who was depressed and suicidal because he lost his job and had split with his girlfriend.

Leung went to a block of flats where Chan had lived as a child. He fell to his death as he tried to stop his friend from committing suicide by leaping from a 19th-floor.
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At least 47 people, nearly all children heading to school for final exams, drowned yesterday when their bus plunged off a bridge in western India, According to Reuters.

Distraught parents rushed to the scene of the disaster in Gujarat state as rescue workers struggled to find survivors in the water and a huge crane was used to haul the smashed vehicle out of the Narmada canal.

The accident in Bodeli, about 170 kilometres from Ahmedabad, the state’s commercial capital, was Gujarat’s worst road accident, local media reports said. Police said the death toll could rise.

At least 44 children, the driver and the bus conductor, as well as an unidentified woman died in the early morning accident. The bus veered off the road and smashed through a concrete barrier.

The children - aged 13 to 15 - were travelling to school to take final exams, a Gujarat state transport official, G.M. Aloriya, told the NDTV news channel.

Wailing parents of 15 of the dead - all girls from the same village of Bamroli, close to the accident site - carried their children’s bodies to the cremation ground late yesterday for one of several mass funerals for the victims.

Parents emerged from their houses carrying their daughters on wooden biers as the funeral procession wound slowly through Bamroli village. Stores closed their shutters as a mark of respect.
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An alleged stand-over scheme at a Kings Cross strip club involving two burly brothers and another man nicknamed “fat boy” whom police say is a member of a large cocaine ring … it was as if a Raymond Chandler novel had come to life.

But instead of the story appearing on the pages of a crime novel, Central Local Court played host to the colourful story - set in an part of Sydney ruled by a “code of silence”.

Three men, Luke “Fat Boy” Sparos and brothers Helal and Hysam Safi, faced the court yesterday charged with the kidnapping of the manager of a strip club, Stripperama, Adonis Yourelis, on April 19 last year.

The trio allegedly kidnapped Yourelis to extort money from the club’s owner, John Kopasakis.

Police said the three men entered the club - now called Strippers - and took Mr Yourelis, demanding he ring his boss and get him to come and meet them.

But instead of acceding to the men’s demands Mr Kopasakis went to Kings Cross police station and reported the kidnapping, police allege. The three men released Mr Yourelis before police arrived but CCTV footage from the club showed them with him, it is alleged.

The Chandler-esque in yesterday’s hearing was perhaps best exemplified during an exchange between the defence solicitor, Jim Nicopoulos, and a Kings Cross detective, Troy Smith.
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A man said in his interview for the local news he was scared but determined when he pulled a family dog off a seven-year-old girl in Blacktown yesterday who was savagely mauled in a backyard attack.

Police say the Staffordshire-cross pitbull attacked the girl about 8.45am in her backyard, biting her several times and dislocating her shoulder.

The girl was taken to Westmead Children’s Hospital in a serious but stable condition.

Luke Logan, whose mother-in-law lives next door to the family, told Network Ten he climbed the fence as soon as he realised the girl was being attacked.

He says it was scary, but he just wanted to get her out of there.

The the dog was impounded by Blacktown Council officers and police say it will probably be destroyed.

Pitbulls - and any dogs crossed with them - have been restricted under NSW law since 2006.

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A mother has made a heartfelt plea for an end to hospital-focused childbirth, after describing her birth of a child in hospital as by far the most gruelling.

Liz Schipper has had four children but told the commission of inquiry into hospitals yesterday that by far “the most painful experience I have been through” was in Goulburn Base Hospital.

The housewife from Bungonia in the Southern Highlands told the commission that after giving birth to two children at her home in the Netherlands, she had returned to Australia and went to Goulburn Hospital to have her third child.

Her daughter was born uneventfully but not before she was subjected to interventions by the obstetrician, including the application of a fetal heart monitor and fetal scalp monitor, an attempt to insert a drip for pain relief which was abandoned at her request, and a request that she lie on a bed with her legs in stirrups when she had been used to walking and standing during labour.
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