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Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cyclist Dead At 19 After Tragic Mid-Race Crash
Cyclist Dead At 19 After Tragic Mid-Race Crash originally appeared on The Spun. Tragedy struck this week during the Tour of Valle D'Aosta. During the first stage of Wednesday's race, 19-year-old Italian cyclist Samuele Privitera was involved in a crash. He reportedly lost control of his bike after hitting a speed bump and struck his head on a barrier. Unfortunately, it was confirmed this week that Privitera passed away from the injuries sustained in this accident. Privitera, a member of the Hagens Berman Jayco team, reportedly crashed on a descent of about 35 kilometers. He lost his helmet when the accident occurred. "Samuele was and always will be the life and personality of this team," Hagens Berman Jayco team director Axel Merckx said. "This team has always been a small family, and moments like this are unimaginable. He was irreplaceable. His joy, his spirit, his kindness, was always a bright light to whatever room or race that he was in at that moment. To lose him is devastating beyond words." Tour de France riders honored Privitera's memory on Thursday, applauding for him during the 12th stage. "It's really sad to lose another young talent today. It's devastating," Tour de France rider Tadej Pogacar said. "It is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, I think, and the risk that we are taking sometimes is too far. But I'm really really really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace." Our thoughts are with Privitera's friends and family Dead At 19 After Tragic Mid-Race Crash first appeared on The Spun on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared.
The Sun
5 days ago
- The Sun
Twerk instructor, 33, dies after being sliced by boat propeller during trip with friends to world-famous beauty spot
A TWERK instructor has died after being sliced by a boat propeller in a horror accident at a world-famous beauty spot. Julina de Lannoy, 33, was enjoying a boat ride with six friends on Saturday when tragedy struck. 7 7 The group had rented a vessel on Italy's scenic Lake Como and were cruising at a gentle pace. It was when another boat, piloted by a 44-year-old local man, allegedly smashed into them head-on, throwing Julina into the water. The dancer from Aruba was critically injured by the propeller of one of the boats, sustaining a gruesome leg wound. She was rushed to a nearby dock where emergency crews desperately tried to revive her before handing her over to paramedics. Julina arrived at a local hospital in critical condition, and doctors were unable to save her. The man at the helm of the other boat was also rushed to hospital and given a breathalyser test. He remained under observation as of Sunday. Cops have seized both boats and are now investigating whether a maneuvering error was behind the fatal crash. Julina's heartbroken friends said their boat had reportedly been moving slowly when the horror collision took place. Tourist bitten by shark while snorkeling Known for her electric energy and passion for dance, Julina had built a following across Europe. After founding Caribbean Twerk Brussels in 2022, she taught classes in Belgium and Amsterdam, also performing regularly. She held a senior role at a department store in Brussels and began teaching twerk classes in 2020 in Luxembourg. In Aruba, Julina had worked for the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls - a leadership organisation for young women aged 11-20. She is survived by her mother, Lisa, and her sister, Kiana. A spokesperson said: 'Julina exemplified the true values of love, service, and sisterhood. 'Her joy was contagious, and her presence was a gift to everyone who had the privilege of knowing her.' 7 7 7 Located in the beautiful region of Lombardy, Lake Como welcomes a whopping 1.4million people each year. Locals have warned that this summer has been the busiest yet on the lake, fuelling fears of rising boating accidents. It comes after a Brazilian dancer was found dead in Indonesia after being trapped in an active volcano for four days. Juliana Marins, 26, slipped and fell more than 1,600 feet from a hiking trail along the crater rim of Mount Rinjani in June. She had been backpacking through Southeast Asia since February, documenting her solo trip on social media. Meanwhile, a 23-year-old newlywed was struck and killed by lightning on the beach as her husband prepared to take a photo. Stephany Lucero Elvir, a pharmacist from Honduras, collapsed after the thunderbolt hit. Her husband, Cristhian Samir Álvarez Molina, survived but was also injured in the freak strike.
BreakingNews.ie
6 days ago
- General
- BreakingNews.ie
Funeral details announced for girl (12) who died in Tipperary swimming tragedy
Funeral details have been announced for a 12-year-old girl who died after she get into difficulty while swimming in the River Suir in Newcastle, Co Tipperary, last Friday afternoon. Freya Tobin of Lynch Terrace in Newcastle was due to start first year in a local secondary school next September. Advertisement The student of Scoil Mhuire Caislean Nua in Newcastle was airlifted to Cork University Hospital following the incident which occurred shortly after 4pm last Friday. She died onsite. In a death notice on her loved ones say that Freya will be 'sadly missed' by her mother Shannen, father Eddie and his family, her siblings Grayson, Eddie and Stephanie, her grandmother Nanna Triona and her partner Tom, grandfather OJ and his partner Colleen, her uncle Dylan and his partner Ericka, her aunt Amber, grandaunts, granduncles, cousins, extended family and her many friends. She was predeceased by her grandmother Laura. Freya will lie in repose at the home of her grandmother Triona at Graig Mhuire, Newcastle on Tuesday afternoon from 2pm to 5pm. Advertisement Her coffin will be brought to Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Newcastle on Wednesday morning where a requiem mass will take place at noon. Freya will be laid to rest in the new cemetery in Mollough. The funeral mass will be live streamed. Meanwhile, mourners are asked to make a donation, if desired, to River Rescue in lieu of flowers. A Go Fund me page set up to pay for the funeral of the youngster has exceeded its target. The organiser of the Go Fund Me, Kayleigh Tobin, said that Freya was the 'kindest, most gentle soul to grace the community of Newcastle.' 'Her presence was magnetic. Her death leaves behind a wave of deep sorrow and regret. There wasn't a single person who did not know her name, nor whom she wouldn't have said hello to when passing through the village. "She touched the hearts of every single person that had hte pleasure of knowing her, and you couldn't help but leave her company with a smile on your face.'
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Heartbreaking photo shows entire cabin of Camp Mystic girls and counselors who were washed away
A heartbreaking photo shows an entire cabin of Camp Mystic girls and counselors who were washed away in the horrific Texas floods. The 13 girls and two counselors were staying in Camp Mystic's Bubble Inn cabin, which, alongside the Twins cabin, housed the youngest of the girls, aged 8 to 10. The cabins were less than 500 feet from the river and thus took in water from two directions - the Guadalupe river and a creek nearby, making the girls' escape particularly challenging. The bodies of nine of the girls and counselor Chloe Childress, 18, have been found as of Monday morning, while counselor Katherine Ferruzzo and four campers remain missing. Those confirmed dead are: Janie Hunt, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Lainey Landry, Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Winne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens. The co-owner of the Christian girls camp, Dick Eastland, reportedly died while trying to save the girls in the Twins and Bubble Inn cabins. His body was found in a black SUV alongside those of three girls he had tried to save, reported The Washington Post. But many of the girls in the cabins were unable to flee as the water rose 20 feet in just 90 minutes when the catastrophic floods hit on Friday morning. Camp Mystic confirmed Monday that at least 27 campers and counselors had died in the floods. 'We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls,' the camp said in a statement posted on its website. 'We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from community, first responders, and officials at every level.' Families were allowed to look around the camp beginning Sunday morning. One girl was seen walking out of a building ringing a large bell in an attempt to find survivors, while a man whose daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp walked the riverbank looking in clumps of trees and under big rocks. A teenage girl had tears running down her face as they slowly drove away and she gazed through the open window at the wreckage. Across the state, the floods killed at least 82 people. Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday that a further 41 people confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing. In Kerr County, home to youth camps in the Texas Hill Country, searchers have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Sheriff Larry Leitha said Sunday afternoon. Fatalities in nearby counties brought the total number of deaths to 82 as of Sunday evening. Rescuers have continued maneuvering through challenging terrain filled with snakes as they look for the missing. The devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, has drawn a massive search effort as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions. Beyond the Camp Mystic campers unaccounted for, the number of missing from other nearby campgrounds and across the region had not been released. 'We don't even want to begin to estimate at this time,' Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said Saturday, citing the likely influx of visitors during the July Fourth holiday. President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration Sunday for Kerr County and said he would likely visit Friday: 'I would have done it today, but we'd just be in their way.' 'It's a horrible thing that took place, absolutely horrible,' he told reporters.
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Climate
- Daily Mail
Texas floods victims aged 11 and 13 sent family heartbreaking three word text before dying with 'hands locked together': Live updates
Two young sisters killed in the catastrophic Texas floods sent their parents a heartbreaking 'I love you' text before they drowned. Blair, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were found dead with their 'hands locked together' after the Guadalupe River rose to record heights over the weekend, completely flooding the camping area where they were staying with their family. At least 82 people were killed in the devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, and 41 remain missing. Ten girls and a counselor are still unaccounted for at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the river. Survivors have described the floods as a 'pitch black wall of death' and said they received no emergency warnings. Officials have come under scrutiny as to why residents and youth summer camps along the river were not alerted sooner about the severe weather or told to evacuate. The National Weather Service has extended a flash flood watch for the Texas Hill Country, where an additional one to three inches of rain is expected to fall today, until 7pm local time (6pm EST). The Texas Hill Country in the central part of the state is naturally prone to flash flooding. Friday's flash floods started with a particularly bad storm that dropped most of its 12 inches of rain in the dark, early morning hours. 12:04 Sisters aged 11 and 13 send heartbreaking three word text to loved ones as they drowned in flood Two young sisters killed in the deadly Hill Country floods sent their parents a heartbreaking final text before they drowned to death. Blair, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were staying in a rented cabin along the Guadalupe River with their grandparents Mike and Charlene Harber over the July 4th holiday. Their father RJ and mother Annie were staying in a separate cabin, located in the Casa Bonita cabin community near Hunt, nearby, The Wall Street Journal reports. The married couple were woken up by the sound of rushing water early Friday morning as their cabin began to flood. RJ and Annie managed to escape the building by jumping out of a window as the water reached neck-level. RJ started to kayak towards the cabin where his daughters and parents were staying, but swell knocked him into a post about halfway through his journey. He shined a flashlight towards the cabin and saw an entire building had detached from the foundation and struck against the cabin where his family was. 'I shined a flashlight out there, and I could see it was white water, and I've kayaked enough to know that that was gonna be impossible,' he told WSJ. 'There were cars floating at me and trees floating at me. I knew if I took even one stroke further, it was gonna be a death sentence.' He kayaked back towards Annie and the pair headed to higher ground with other families who managed to flee the floods. When they arrived at a safe spot, the couple checked their phones and saw they each received a text from their daughters that read 'I love you', timestamped at 3.30am. The girls also sent a similar message to their grandfather in Michigan. Their bodies were found the next day, about dozen miles from the cabin with their 'hands locked together'. Mike and Charlene remain missing. Catastrophic Texas floods kill 82 people, including 28 children Flash flooding in central Texas has killed at least 82 people, including 28 children, officials have confirmed. At least 41 people are confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing, Gov. Greg Abbott said Sunday. In hardest-hit Kerr County, home to youth camps in the Texas Hill Country, searchers have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Sheriff Larry Leitha said. Fatalities in nearby counties brought the total number of deaths to 82 as of Monday morning. Ten girls and a counselor were still unaccounted for at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the river. Beyond the Camp Mystic campers unaccounted for, the number of missing from other nearby campgrounds and across the region had not been released. Pictured: A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 10 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas, on July 5, 2025 Pictured: Search and recovery workers dig through debris looking for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding at Camp Mystic on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas 11:29 What caused the Guadalupe River floods? Friday's flash floods started with a particularly bad storm that dropped most of its 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain in the dark early morning hours. After a flood watch notice midday Thursday, the National Weather Service office issued an urgent warning around 4am that raised the potential of catastrophic damage and a severe threat to human life. By at least 5.20am, some residents in the Kerrville city area say water levels were getting alarmingly high. The massive rain flowing down hills sent rushing water into the Guadalupe River, causing it to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes. The Texas Hill Country in the central part of the state is naturally prone to flash flooding due to the dry dirt-packed areas where the soil lets rain skid along the surface of the landscape instead of soaking it up. Pictured: Construction equipment is seen caught in the Guadalupe River in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerrville, Texas on July 6, 2025 Pictured: The sun sets over the Guadalupe River on July 6, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused severe flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas, leaving more than 80 people reported dead
