Baby killed and mum injured after plunging 6 storeys when faulty lift wasn’t there when the doors opened

    A six-week-old- baby girl has died after her mum pushed her pram into a lift when the doors opened and the lift wasn’t there The two fell down the left and as they both landed on the roof of the lift, the mother’s weight crushed her infant daughter to death.
   The lift car – which was stuck around 8ft below, between the 22nd and 23rd floors – then plunged 6 storeys before stopping. The tragic accident happened at a high-rise riddled with violations, including 45 directly related to the lifts.

    The 21 year old mother, Aberaqed Al-Rabah, told investigators that she didn’t notice that the elevator car wasn’t there when the doors opened — and just pushed the buggy containing 6-week-old Areej Ali into the open space, police sources said.

    The impact killed the baby and sent the elevator plummeting down to the 17th floor, where first responders pulled them both out. Areej was pronounced dead shortly after at Coney Island Hospital.

    The baby's grandafther, 70 year old, Salah Ali, said the mother is in “bad shape.” “She’s in the hospital. She’s injured,” Ali told reporters at the scene. He said:

“It breaks my heart. That was my grandchild.”

    A neighbour said when Areej’s father came home, he nearly passed out after he was told that his daughter was dead and how she had died.

“They’re all screaming and crying next door,” the neighbour added.

    Another neighbour, Jeff Delacruz, who lives in the building, said his aunt spoke to Aberaqed and she kept saying:

“She keeps saying, ‘Everything is OK. It’s OK. God only gave me my baby for one month . . . She’s probably traumatized,” said Delacruz.

    Residents said they had been trapped in the lift several times and it often just stopped, or the doors had to be forced open.
Elizabeth Delacruz said:

“About a week ago, the same one was out of service. The door just didn’t open,”

    The Bay Park complex has a “chronic problem” with its lifts, according to one of hundreds of Department of Buildings complaints. There’s one active complaint from 30 September about the lift that caused Areej’s death.
    There are also two complaints for that elevator from 17 July that have been resolved and a complaint from 9 March 2015, saying the it is “constantly getting out of service” and “has not been working for 2½ weeks.”

     The Department of Buildings said the elevator involved was last inspected on 8 August, and one non-hazardous violation was issued because the emergency phone in the car didn’t work. But DOB inspectors determined it could “safely remain in operation.”

The Starrett Corporation, which owns the building, issued a statement saying:

“We are saddened by today’s tragic incident . . . The incident is now under active investigation and we are cooperating fully with all authorities and agencies to determine the facts surrounding the event. “We extend our deepest sympathies to the families involved and management is making arrangements to offer grief counseling upon request.”

Colchester dog attack: Parents' tribute to baby killed

   Parents have paid tribute to their four-month old son who was killed in a dog attack, and his 22-month-old brother who was seriously injured.

   Archie Darby died after he was attacked by the dog at his home in Colchester, Essex. His brother Daniel-Jay Darby is in hospital.
   In a statement, their parents said they "were such happy little loveable boys".
Essex Police said the dog - believed to have been a "Staffordshire bull terrier-type" - had been put down.
Their mother sustained minor injuries in the attack inside the house in Harwich Road on Thursday afternoon.
   The boys' parents, who asked not to be named, issued a statement saying: "Our beautiful sons Archie Joe Darby and Daniel-Jay Darby are so, so loved by us all and were such happy little loveable boys.
"It doesn't seem real that our little Archie Bum has gone to heaven and our little Daniel is in intensive care because of a tragic, tragic incident involving a dog attack.
   "We have lost our gorgeous little four-month-old baby and our beautiful 22-month-old boy is currently being treated for his injuries.
   "Heaven has gained a beautiful little angel and he will be greatly missed by us all and our other little soldier is still fighting strong.
"Please, please, please can you all respect our privacy at this time."
    Daniel-Jay was left with "life-changing injuries" in the attack and is being treated at a specialist unit.
Tributes including flowers and toys have been left outside the house. One card left with a bunch of roses read: "RIP little man."
SOURCE: www.naijacop.com

African woman with baby strapped to her back fends off thugs who were about to stab a teenager in London

    Two black mothers, including one with a baby intervened when thugs were about to stab a teenager in a busy shopping street. The niece and her aunt took action when two youths with huge knives chased two other boys through New Cross in south London. The aunt picked up a cafe chair and lunged at one of the knifemen with all her strength, knocking him off balance as he was about to attack one of the boys.

   Witnesses praised the two women, saying they had saved the boy's life. The aftermath was captured by BBC London, who filmed the women telling police what had happened. The niece, still carrying her baby, told officers:

    "I started shouting and the next thing I saw was my auntie, who’d got one of the cafe chairs. She was trying to stop them." Her aunt added: "We just saw it like ‘this is going to be a bloodshed if we don’t get tough’. They had two massive knives. "We just tried to prevent somebody from ending up in the hospital or in the mortuary. And as a mother I didn’t think about anything else, Ijust thought that this needed to be stopped"

    Another witness, Lena Gale told the Standard : "One of the two attackers was carrying the biggest knife I have ever seen, it was huge. I told the driver to pull over and started screaming for people to help. One of the boys being chased tripped and fell over. He looked like he was done for, doubled up on the floor. They were going to kill him. But this woman stepped in and grabbed a cafe chair and hit the boy with the knife as hard as she could. The guy stopped in his tracks and ran off." When officers arrived the scene, the alleged attackers and their victims had fled. The women have been hailed as heroes by online users.
SOURCE:www.naijacop.com

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo Unveiled Their Baby on Instagram

 The Voice’s Adam Levine and Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo welcomed a baby girl into the world on September 21, but if we haven’t seen pictures of a thing, has it really happened? The couple rectified that today by posting a sweet black-and-white photo on Instagram of their newborn snuggled up with her tattooed dad. The caption simply reads, “Dusty Rose Levine 9/21/16.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKucFQKAGwa/
Levine began dating Prinsloo in 2012. The two briefly broke up before getting engaged in 2013 and tying the knot for good in 2014. It seems like just yesterday that Prinsloo was touching tummies with Levine, who was feeling a little pregnant himself around week 20. Memories.
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Pharrel Williams and wife expecting baby no. 2

Pharrell Williams and wife Helen Lasichanh are expecting their second child together. Helen's baby bump was put on display Thursday at the N°5 L’EAU party for Chanel in West Hollywood. The couple who got married in October 2013, are already parents to 7 year old son Rocket Ayer.
Congratulations to the couple!