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Crocodile Kills Ethiopian Pastor During Lake Baptism
Man Accused Of Putting Kids In Dryer And Snapchatting Video
A crocodile has killed a Protestant pas- tor who was baptising follow- ers near a lake in southern Ethiopia.
Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town's Merkeb Tabya district.
Residents and police told BBC Amharic a croc-
odile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.
Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands.
"He baptised
the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a croc- odile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor," local resident Ketema Kairo told the
BBC.
Despite huge efforts, fisher- men and resi- dents could not save pastor Docho, police- man Eiwnetu Kanko said.
They used fish- ing nets to pre- vent the croco- dile from taking the pastor's body into the lake.
The crocodile escaped.
MOUNDSVILLE W.Va. (AP) - Police in West Virginia say a man allegedly placed his two children in a dryer, shut the door and took videos of them.
A criminal com- plaint in Marshall County Magistrate Court says 24-year-old Ryan James Barr of Moundsville is charged with
child neglect creating risk of injury.
Sheriff's Deputy Travis Morando says deputies were called after someone saw videos posted by Barr on Snapchat last week. In one of them, a young girl is screaming after she was placed in a dryer and the door was shut.
In the other video, the com- plaint says, a young boy was put in the dryer and it was turned on for a short period.
Barr was held on $50,000 bond Thursday in the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville.
Jail records did- n't indicate whether he has an attorney.