18 Tuesday, August 29, 2017 Remains of sailors recovered Singapore state on Monday last week, leaving a The sailors were aged between 20 ivers have recovered the gaping hole in the vessel’s hull and and 39. remains of all 10 US sailors flooding it with water. The collision sparked a Dwho went missing after their warship It was the second such deadly multinational search and rescue collided with a tanker off Singapore, accident in two months after a US operation off Singapore but it was the US Navy said yesterday. destroyer collided with a cargo ship called off after several days, and The remaining eight sailors were off Japan in June, and the fourth authorities shifted their focus to retrieved by divers searching flooded accident involving an American flooded parts of the ship. compartments of the USS John S. warship in the Pacific this year. The accident prompted the navy McCain, it said, after the discovery of The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet, to to begin a global investigation and two bodies was announced last week. which the warship belonged, said in remove the commander of the The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (foreground), seen with The guided-missile destroyer a statement that “divers have now Japan-headquartered Seventh Fleet, a hole on its portside after a collision with a tanker, docks next to the USS collided with an oil tanker as it recovered the remains of all 10 USS the centrepiece of the US military America (behind) at Changi naval base in Singapore (file photo) headed for a routine stop in the city- John S. McCain sailors”. presence in Asia. German killer nurse murdered ‘at least Indian court jails 90 patients’: police ‘godman’ for 20 years in rape case Rohtak imprisonment,” said n Indian court yesterday Abhishek Dayal, spokesman sentenced a controversial for India’s Central Bureau of Aspiritual leader to a total of 20 Investigation (CBI), after the years in prison for raping two sentencing hearing. of his devotees, days after his “I have the judgement followers went on a rampage which details the sentence.” that left 38 dead. A lawyer for the victims The riots broke out on earlier said that Singh had Friday when Gurmeet been sentenced to 10 years in Ram Rahim Singh, 50, was jail. In fact, he was given two Milk packets are strewn on the ground by burned vehi- convicted of raping the two consecutive 10-year sentences. cles at the Sirsa milk plant dairy, which was attacked and women at the sprawling Authorities had imposed a vandalised on August 25 German former male nurse Niels H hiding his face behind a headquarters of his hugely security clampdown on the folder as he waits next to his lawyer Ulrike Baumann (R) for the popular Dera Sacha Sauda city of Rohtak where Singh criticised for failing to after an anonymous letter was opening of another session of his trial sect in the northern state is being held due to fears of a anticipate the riots. sent to then-prime minister of Haryana in a case repeat of Friday’s violence, Police were taking no Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002, Berlin where the other hospital is that dates back to when tens of thousands chances Monday in Rohtak, accusing Singh of repeatedly male nurse jailed for life located. 1999. of his supporters set fire where mobile internet has raping the sender and several two years ago for killing The death toll “is unique “He has been to cars and clashed with been cut, roads barricaded other women in the sect. Atwo hospital patients with lethal in the history of the German sentenced for 10 security forces. with barbed wire and soldiers A judge asked the drug overdoses murdered at republic,” said the chief police plus 10, which Prime Minister deployed to man checkpoints. federal Central Bureau of least 90 patients in total, and investigator in the case, Arne is a total of 20 Narendra Modi Investigation to look into the possibly twice as many, police Schmidt, adding that Hoegel years of condemned the ‘Guru in bling’ accusations, but it took years said yesterday, calling it post- killed “without a discernable violence but More than 100 of Singh’s to trace the alleged victims war Germany’s worst killing pattern” and preyed his ruling senior loyalists had been and it was not until 2007 that spree. especially on those in critical Bharatiya placed in detention as a two women came forward and Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed condition. Janata Party, precautionary measure, said filed charges. in February 2015 for two There was “evidence for at which is also Rohtak police chief Navdeep Utsav Singh Bains, a lawyer murders and four counts of least 90 murders, and at least as in power in Singh Virk. for the victims, said there attempted murder or causing many (suspected) cases again Haryana, He said his officers would could be dozens more cases bodily harm on intensive-care that can no longer be proven,” was use “whatever force is of abuse involving women at patients at the Delmenhorst he told a press conference, required” against the guru’s the sect. hospital near the northern city declaring himself “speechless” devotees should they again “We believe there are at of Bremen. at the outcome. resort to violence. least 48 more victims who Police said yesterday that Hoegel has admitted to “If the situation so arises were sexually abused and who forensics experts had since injecting patients with drugs that (we) need to use firearms, may have been killed or are exhumed and analysed more that can cause heart failure my officers have complete too scared to come out and than 130 additional bodies or circulatory collapse so he Indian chief of the religious sect Dera Sacha authority,” the police chief testify against Ram Rahim,” and had found evidence of could then try to revive them Sauda (DSS) Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh at a told broadcaster NDTV. he said. a vastly higher death toll at and, when successful, shine as news conference to launch the score for his film A judge was flown in by Singh also stood trial for two hospitals where Hoegel a saviour before his medical ‘MSG-2 The Messenger’ in Mumbai (file photo) helicopter to sentence the conspiracy over the murder had worked between 1999 and peers. spiritual leader, known as in 2002 of a journalist 2005. He earlier testified that the “guru in bling” for his investigating the rape “The insights we were able to at times he acted out of penchant for bejewelled allegations. He denied the gain are terrifying, they surpass “boredom”, that he felt costumes. charge and the case is ongoing. what we could have imagined,” euphoric when he managed to The rape case was brought (AFP) said Johann Kuehme, police bring a patient back to life, and chief in the city of Oldenburg, devastated when he failed.