Woman convicted of murder after driving over her fiance in a "game of chicken" and dragging him 500 feet, U.K. police say
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A woman was convicted of murder on Tuesday after allegedly driving over her fiance and dragging him 500 feet under her vehicle, British police said in a news release.
Alice Wood, 23, fatally struck Ryan Watson, 24, in what witnesses called a "game of chicken," after the couple had an argument while attending a charity party in May 2022, Cheshire Police said. Wood had accused Watson of flirting with another woman at the party, the BBC reported.
"Wood used her vehicle as a weapon, while under the influence of alcohol, deliberately driving at him and even continuing to drive after knocking him down," Detective Inspector Nigel Parr said in a statement. "She knew what she had done, but since then has refused to take accountability for her actions."
Beirut and Gaza — Displaced Palestinians in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza woke up in the early morning hours Tuesday to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. The flames spreading quickly from tent to tent. Civilians who'd sought shelter in the camp said there was only one fire extinguisher to try to quash the blaze.
More than a dozen Palestinians, including children, were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on a school in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, that was sheltering displaced people, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had struck "a compound that previously served as the 'Abu Hassan' School," where it said "dozens of terrorists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations were present."