Tragedy
School bus fire in Thailand kills at least 23
The school bus was carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip when it caught fire in the outskirts of Bangkok, police said.
- by Napat Wesshasartar and Panarat Thepgumpanat
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Woman drowns after being swept off rocks at Cape Schanck
Police winched the woman’s body from notoriously dangerous waters off Victoria’s southern coast.
- by Lachlan Abbott
Justice for Oscar: Teens mourning slain friend plead for end to knife violence
A family representative urged Oscar Hamilton’s friends to stay safe as they gathered to remember the teen who was stabbed to death at a Melton West shopping centre.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
Mother’s heartbreaking farewell to ‘soulmate’ Charlotte
Hundreds of mourners packed into the Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Bossley Park, many wearing touches of pink, to say goodbye to the 12-year-old girl.
- by Jessica McSweeney
‘Everybody adored you’: Slain Blue Mountains boys farewelled together in single casket
Benjamin and Russell Smith were “beautiful little kids just becoming beautiful young men”, their father has told a funeral service two weeks after they were allegedly murdered.
- by Amber Schultz
Dozens killed in coal mine explosion in Iran
A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iran’s state media said on Sunday.
Murder in Melbourne’s west: The brutal killing of a peacemaker
Abuk Akol cannot stop the visions of her son Kioyom, stabbed and abandoned in a park in Melbourne’s west. There were witnesses. She wants them to speak up.
- by Melissa Cunningham
‘No value on five lives’: Families devastated after Daylesford pub crash driver case thrown out
The magistrate found William Swale, who has type 1 diabetes, was in the grip of a severe medical episode when he crashed into the diners and there was insufficient evidence to put before a jury.
- by Erin Pearson
Surviving child released from hospital as coroner launches probe into blaze that killed two girls
Police are investigating whether the mother was home at the time of the fire, and a social worker says the father flagged concerns in the months before the fatal blaze at the Sydenham house.
- by Cassandra Morgan and Hannah Kennelly
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Mental health
The death that shocked Sydney and puts a school’s actions in the spotlight
A mother’s text to Santa Sabina school the day after her 12-year-old died has raised questions about how the school responded to bullying.
- by Jordan Baker
Driver ‘virtually close to death’ before Daylesford pub crash that killed five, court hears
William Swale, who has type 1 diabetes, was severely hypoglycaemic in the minutes leading up to the November accident, according to his doctor.
- by Erin Pearson
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