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WORLD NEWS Monday 30 SepteMber 2019

A Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, takes shelter from the rain under
a cart in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,
Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019.
Associated Press
Torrential rains People looking at a Aston Martin One-77 Coupe (2011) in front of a Ferrari LaFerrari (2015), yellow,

and a Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 Coupe (2010), blue, part of some 25 luxury cars owned by Teodoro
Obiang, the son of the Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo are pic-
kill another 42 tured before an auction of sales house Bonhams at the Bonmont Abbey Golf & Country Club in
Cheserex near Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019.
Associated Press
people in India Supercars taken from African

leader's son auctioned for $27M

NEW DELHI (AP) — Mon- ed in hospitals. At least 29
soon rains continue to bat- houses collapsed because
ter parts of India, with at of heavy rain, she said. GENEVA (AP) — Car lov- miles) and has an official cars and ordered the se-
least 42 more people dying In Bihar, Disaster Manage- ers from around the world top speed of 359 kilometers questration of a yacht in
in the past 24 hours, officials ment Department Princi- splashed out more than per hour (223 mph), Bon- 2016. The yacht was re-
said Sunday. pal Secretary Pratay Am- $27 million at an auction hams said. Total proceeds leased in the arrangement
At least 35 people died rit said four people were Sunday for dozens of luxury from the sale beat the 18.5 announced in February,
from rain-related causes in killed on the outskirts of cars seized from the son of million francs ($18.7 million) under which Equatorial
the northern state of Uttar the state capital, Patna, Equatorial Guinea's presi- that authorities had hoped Guinea agreed to pay Ge-
Pradesh and seven died in when a huge tree fell on dent in a Swiss money-laun- to fetch for a charity to neva authorities 1.3 million
the eastern state of Bihar, the three-wheeler they dering probe. benefit the people of oil- Swiss francs "notably to
officials said. were sitting in to avoid be- The 25 lots sold by auction rich Equatorial Guinea. cover procedural costs,"
The latest toll came days ing drenched. Three other house Bonhams included The auction comes after the prosecutor's office said.
after reports of at least 59 people were killed in the a white-and-cream 2014 the Geneva prosecutor's Other cars sold at the Do-
fatalities in the past week state's Bhagalpur district Lamborghini Veneno road- office announced in Feb- maine de Bonmmont golf
amid forecasts that heavy when a wall collapsed on ster that cost the buyer 8.28 ruary it had closed a case club on the edge of Gene-
rains would continue until them following heavy rains. million Swiss francs ($8.4 mil- against Teodoro Nguema va included a yellow 2003
Monday. Sandhaya Kureel, More than 350 people lion), comprising a 15% pre- Obiang Mangue, the son Ferrari Enzo for 3.1 million
a spokeswoman for the Di- have been killed by rain- mium for the auction house of the country's four-de- francs, and a 2015 Koenig-
saster Management and related causes in India, but with potential taxes still cade president, Teodoro segg One:1 that fetched
Relief Department in Uttar Nepal and Bangladesh this to be added. Obiang, and two others fol- 4.6 million francs. The Equa-
Pradesh, said Sunday that monsoon season, which The supercar — one of lowing a probe of money torial Guinea president's
17 people in the state were runs from June through only nine such versions pro- laundering and misman- son, who is also a vice presi-
injured and being treat- September.q duced — had been driven agement of public assets. dent, has been ensnared in
only 325 kilometers (201 Swiss authorities seized the legal trouble elsewhere.q