Woman falls from high-rise building after meeting man through Tinder
A New Zealand woman has died after falling from a high-rise building on the Gold Coast while visiting a man she met on Tinder.
Warriena Tagpugo Wright, 26, fell 14 storeys from the apartment of 28-year-old Gable Tostee at 2:20am on Friday, according to the Courier-Mail. Witnesses saw the pair on the balcony of the apartment prior to the incident. It is believed that the pair had been drinking.
Tostee voluntarily attended Surfers Paradise police station on Friday, and was released without charge.
Originally from Lower Hutt, near Wellington, Ms Wright came to Australia on July 29 for a friend’s wedding.
Fears for Australian surrogate children after Thai clinic abrupt closure
Roughly 50 Australian couples are uncertain of the fate of their surrogate children and stored embryos after a popular Thai surrogacy clinic was shut down due to improper conduct, Fairfax Media reports. The All IVF Centre in Bangkok was closed by authorities after the clinic was linked to an international baby trafficking syndicate.
Clients of the clinic are now unable to contact their surrogates, and there are fears that the Thai surrogate mothers will abort the babies after losing financial and medical support from the clinic.
The closure is part of Thailand’s crackdown on surrogacy businesses, sparked by the story of Gammy, the baby with Down syndrome whose biological parents left him behind in Thailand while taking his sister home to Australia.
Two dead in Victorian shooting
A man and a woman are dead and two others have been injured following a shooting spree in north-west Victoria, ABC News reports.