Iceberg looming over Greenland village spotted from space
Berlin: An iceberg that drifted perilously close to a remote Greenland village is so big it can be seen from space.
The European Space Agency released an image yesterday showing the giant iceberg just off the coast of Innaarsuit. Dozens of village residents were evacuated to higher ground last week due to concerns the 11 million-ton iceberg might break apart and produce waves large enough to wash away low-lying buildings.
The image captured July 9 by ESA’s Sentinel-2 satellites shows several other large icebergs in the vicinity. Separately, Greenland’s broadcaster KNR published video taken by a local resident showing a time lapse of the iceberg drifting past the village. KNR reported that strong winds and elevated tides moved the iceberg northward, away from the harbor, over the weekend. (AP)
Stray bullet strikes, kills 9-year-old girl inside her home
Bridgeton: Authorities say a stray bullet struck and killed a 9-year-old girl inside her southern New Jersey home.
Bridgeton police say the shooting was reported around 12:30 am on Wednesday. They say relatives drove the girl to a hospital but she was pronounced dead there a short time later. The girl’s name has not been released. The shooting occurred about a block away from the girl’s home.
Authorities say the shots struck several vehicles and the girl’s home. Authorities say the stray bullet that killed the girl went through the home’s rear wall and into an adjacent room where it hit her. No other injuries were reported in the shooting. (AP)
Poland finds thousands of remains while improving city park
Warsaw: Officials in central Poland have halted improvements at a city park after archeologists found possibly tens of thousands of remains at the site of an old Evangelical cemetery that were supposed to have been exhumed and moved in the 1950s.
A playground, an open-air gym and a winter sports hill were being added, with the aid of EU funds, to the park in Bydgoszcz, where an Evangelical cemetery once was. Post-World War II documents say the graves, chiefly of German residents, were moved to make room for the park. But archaeologist Robert Grochowski told TVN24 on Tuesday that his team came across many graves with remains, estimating they could number up to 80,000, which suggests that the exhumations never happened. Officials are still deciding what to do now with the remains and the park. (AP)
Woman suffers head injuries in bear encounter
Groton: New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Department says a 71-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries from an encounter with a bear in her home.
The department says the bear somehow got inside the woman’s home about 1:15 am on Tuesday in Groton, a rural community in the central part of the state. The woman, who uses a wheelchair, was hospitalized. Authorities haven’t been able to talk to her yet. WMUR-TV reports evidence suggest the bear was trapped in the kitchen area before its encounter with the woman. The bear managed to get out of the home afterward. Fish and Game officers said they are searching for the bear. They are concerned the bear may have rabies. (AP)