Odisha woman found living with corpses of family members for 2 days: Police
Bhubaneswar, Feb 15 (PTI): A 65-year-old woman was on Saturday found to have been living with the corpses of three of her family members for at least two days in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, a police officer said.
Decomposed bodies of the three - the woman's husband, her daughter and grandson - were found hanging in their residence at Chaulia Khamar village under Dhenkanal Sadar police station limits.
Inspector in charge of the police station, Purna Chandra Rout, said that the woman, Pushpanjali Das, on Saturday left the house and went to her son's place in Dhenkanal town and told him that three were dead.
Following this, her son Prasanna Kumar Das called up someone in the village, who informed him that some stench was coming from the house and that he should come and check.
For some reason, Prasanna has been staying away from his father's house for around 30 years.
After going to the village with his mother, Prasanna found his father Shankarshan (70) hanging in one room, while his 45-year-old sister Subarna and her son Santosh (18) were also hanging in another.
It is suspected that the three died at least two days ago.
The police officer said the house was located on a secluded side of the village and the family members did not mingle with others.
The bodies were sent for post-mortem examination to ascertain whether the three died by suicide or homicide, he said.
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Trump’s fresh threat to bomb Iran amid reports of deal to end war
Washington (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Iran with more bombing if it doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz, amid a report that the warring sides were nearing an agreement to end the war.
US media outlet Axios reported, quoting US officials and two other sources, that the US and Iran were getting close to a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.
The US expects Iranian responses on several key points over the next 48 hours, Axios reported, adding that nothing has been agreed yet. This was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began.
"Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before," Trump said.
According to Axios, the deal would involve Iran committing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment, the US agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds, and both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
It said many of the terms laid out in the memo would be contingent on a final agreement being reached, leaving the possibility of renewed war or an extended limbo in which the hot war has stopped, but nothing is truly resolved.
