Accident victims' funeral turns traumatic as 3 drown while bathing in river after cremation
Bhilwara (PTI): The last rites of four accident victims took a turn for the worse after three men drowned while taking bath in a river following the cremation rituals in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district on Monday.
According to police, the victims had gathered at a cremation ground in Fuliya Kala village for the last rites of four people, who were among seven from two families killed in a car accident in Jaipur on Saturday night.
After the rituals were over, seven men entered the Khari river to take bath when the tragedy struck. While four of them were rescued and taken to a nearby health centre, three were declared dead, Shahpura DSP Om Prakash Bishnoi said.
Mahendra Mali (25), Bardi Chand (34) and Mahesh Sharma (35) died in the incident, while Vijay Pratap Singh (30), Mukesh Goswami (25), Rakesh (28) and Jeevraj (30) were admitted to the primary health centre in Fuliya Kala from where three were referred to the Shahpura district hospital after their condition turned serious, the DSP said.
Bhilwara MP Damodar Agarwal, Shahpura MLA Lalaram Bairwa and District Collector Jasmit Singh Sandhu visited the hospital to check on the injured.
An inquiry has been ordered into the incident, the officer said.
Seven people from two families were killed on Saturday after the car they were travelling in lost control and fell off the Ring Road onto a waterlogged underpass in Jaipur.
The accident occurred in the Shivdaspura police station area late on Saturday night, when the carrying the victims returning from Haridwar after performing the last rites of a relative hit a divider before plunging about 16 feet below, police said.
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Trump rushed out of dinner event after shots fired; one arrested
Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump and other top White House officials were evacuated unharmed from the annual dinner of White House correspondents after a man armed with multiple weapons fired shots outside the ballroom of the hotel.
The incident took place at around 8:34 PM local time when dinner was served. At that time, Trump was seen having a conversation with Weijia Jiang, the President of the White House Correspondents' Association, and mentalist Oz Pearlman, who was scheduled to present a show at the marquee event at the Washington Hilton here.
Secret Service officials and other security personnel covered the President, First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President J D Vance, and the Second Lady Usha Vance, who were seated at the head table, and escorted them out of the ballroom.
Several guests at the dinner, including leaders across the political spectrum, journalists and other invitees, ducked under the table, apparently as a reflex reaction.
Putting up a brave face, President Trump later announced on Truth Social that the dinner would be rescheduled within 30 days.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom is all that I heard, and many guests ducked under the table,” a C-SPAN reporter at the dinner said.
Hours later, Trump addressed a press conference at the White House and announced that the security personnel had captured one person who hails from California.
“I heard a noise and sort of thought it was a tray going down. I've heard that many times. It was a pretty loud noise, and it was from quite far away. He (the attacker) hadn't reached the area at all. They really got him,” Trump told reporters, recalling the incident.
Trump said one security officer was shot at but saved as he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Several protestors had lined up on the road outside the hotel, raising slogans against the Trump administration and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A CNN reporter who was outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton said he saw a gunman opening fire just a few feet away. He was among the dozens of attendees who took cover as law enforcement swarmed the venue.
The suspect has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from California.
Asked how Saturday’s incident impacts him as the US president, Trump told reporters he is in a dangerous job but that he is no “basket case.”
“I like not to think about it. I lead a pretty normal life, considering, you know, it’s a dangerous life. I think I handle it as well as it can be handled,” Trump said.
Trump has survived two assassination attempts over the past two years – first at a presidential election campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, and later in Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15, 2024.
“I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals, and progressives...everybody in that room, big crowd, record-setting crowd,” he said.
“We had some great work done by law enforcement, but in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully,” Trump said.
