A model who is feared to have died in the Pakistan plane crash last week has received online abuse posthumously. Trolls on Twitter shared images of her, attacking her for her ‘sinful’ outfits and modelling career, with religious radicals saying she will be punished in the afterlife. Zara Abid, 28, is believed to have been … Read more
The pilots of doomed Pakistan Airlines Flight 8303 which crashed in Karachi on Friday killing 97 may have forgotten to put the wheels down before landing, analysis of flight data and cockpit recordings has suggested. Captain Sajjad Gull, Pakistan Airline’s most-senior pilot, and his co-pilot aborted their initial landing when they realised their mistake – but … Read more
A passenger list from the doomed Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 has revealed where the two survivors were sitting when the aircraft plowed into a residential neighbourhood in Karachi. Nineteen of the 97 bodies recovered from the wreckage have been identified and were collected by loved ones for funeral prayers this morning. Two men survived … Read more
Footage has emerged of the final few moments of a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft before it crashed into buildings in the city of Karachi. The footage was taken from a security camera perched on top of a rooftop which had a clear view of the skyline as the stricken aircraft was seen descending … Read more
Two passengers have survived the A320 crash in Pakistan, including Zafar Masood, manager of the Bank of Punjab, according to a government spokesman. The bank said he had suffered fractures but was ‘conscious and responding well’. The other survivor, engineer Muhammad Zubair, told Geo News the pilot came down for one landing, briefly touched down, … Read more
Airbus A320 with 107 people aboard crashes in residential area of Karachi in Pakistan By Dail Mail Online Reporter Published: 11:31 BST, 22 May 2020 | Updated: 11:40 BST, 22 May 2020 A Pakistan passenger plane with more than 100 people believed to be on board crashed in the southern city of Karachi on Friday, … Read more
Serbia sends the army to its border with Croatia to ‘secure’ three camps holding 1,500 migrants trying to reach the EU amid claims of ‘harassment’ against local people Serbian Defence Ministry deployed army to a town near the border with Croatia Told to ‘secure’ three migrant camps housing some 1,500 people near Sid President Vucic … Read more
An ‘extraordinary’ GP, who was still working at the age of 84, has become the ninth family doctor to die from coronavirus. Dr Karamat Mirza, who was raised in Pakistan by a family of doctors before moving to England in 1966, was still treating patients up until two weeks ago at the Old Road Medical … Read more
Shrinking snow caps in the Himalayas are causing the spread of toxic green algae so big it can be seen from space, a new study has found. US research based on NASA images found blooms of the marine species Noctiluca scintillans, known as ‘sea sparkle’, lining coastlines around the Arabian Sea. Noctiluca scintillans, a millimetre-size … Read more
Revealed: At least 171 frontline NHS workers have now died in the coronavirus pandemic including 27 doctors According to Nursing Notes at least 27 doctors and 100 nurses have died so far Furqan Ali Siddiqui, 50, who arrived from Pakistan two months ago, is one Father-of-two Adekunle Enitan, 55, died at the William Harvey Hospital, … Read more