1. Two-year-old dies after car reversed over her
A toddler has died in Perth, after being hit by her mother’s car reversing out of the driveway. Two-year-old Andreea Baliban was behind the car, when her mother Rebeca was reversing it. Andreea was taken to Joondalup Health Campus but succumbed to critical head injuries soon after the accident.
“Our hearts are shattered and words cannot express what we are going through,” Andreea’s father Lucian, told Nine News.
In the last six months, a 14-month-old boy and a 16-month-old girl both also died after being hit by reversing cars.
2. Jihadists live-tweet executions
Jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have released shocking images of the mass execution of Iraqi soldiers via Twitter.
The photographs released on one of ISIL’s own Twitter feeds, show dozens of Shiite soldiers being forced to lie facedown in the dirt, with their hands tied behind their backs. ISIL announced earlier on Twitter, it had executed 1700 Shiite soldiers, but human rights groups have not yet been able to confirm their claim.
The Iraqi Ministry of Communications has reportedly shut down social media in Baghdad and other parts of the country, allegedly in an attempt to prevent ISIL from continuing to use platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
3. Couple convicted of killing severely disabled son, found dead.
A couple convicted of killing their severely disabled son in 2001 have both been found dead in their western Sydney home.
The bodies of Raymond and Margaret Sutton, both in their 70s, were discovered around 11am on Saturday, after Ms Sutton’s brother alerted police when he was unable to contact her. The couple are thought to have died two weeks earlier.
In 2005, the Sutton’s pleaded guilty to manslaughter of their 29-year-old son Matthew, admitting to killing their son the day before he was due to have an operation that would have left him deaf and with no sense of taste. In 2007 they were convicted, and both given 5-year good behaviour bonds.