A New Orleans jail maintenance worker has been arrested after admitting he turned water off to a toilet covering a hole in a cell wall, allowing 10 men to squeeze through the gap and escape the facility. The inmates pulled off the daring escape from a jail early Friday by yanking open a faulty cell door, moving the toilet and slithering through the hole. Graffiti on the wall included the message “To Easy LoL,” with an arrow pointing to the gap. Officials have underscored multiple security lapses, including ineffective cell locks and that the inmates escaped when the lone guard monitoring...

Joel Le Scouarnec, a former surgeon on trial in France who has admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients, mostly under age, said he considers himself “responsible” for the death of two of his victims. Over the last few weeks, the court was shown the photos of two people whose relatives say died by suicide, following the trauma of being sexually assaulted by Le Scouarnec when they were children. One is not being named; the other is Mathias Vinet, who died at in 2021 after struggling with addiction. His grandparents told the BBC they blame Le Scouarnec for his death. “I...

Yet to be identified officers of the Nigerian police allegedly chased suspected internet fraudsters — yahoo boys— in a car at Gbagi market, Ibadan, firing at their tires, but tragically hit a 14-year-old secondary school student heading to his WAEC exam by “mistake” The police officers were reportedly chasing suspected yahoo boys at Gbagi, however when they failed to catch up with them, they resorted to shooting their tires. One of the bullets went straight and hit a 14yr old boy, sitting in the car with his dad and twin brother, waiting for the traffic light to turn green, as...