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Police believe the body of a missing Queensland woman was dumped in a wheelie bin, picked up by a rubbish truck and taken to a waste site.

Detective Superintendent Andrew Massingham said foul play cannot be ruled out as the search for 78-year-old retired school teacher Lesley Trotter continues.

"Ongoing investigations can reveal that on the morning of March 28 this year, the body of a female we believe was Lesley Trotter was located in a general waste wheelie bin situated on Maryvale Street, Toowong, near to where she resides," Massingham said.

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He said the rubbish truck went to the Nudgee Transfer Station, where the rubbish was dropped into a pit before an additional 22 trucks visited the site that day.

The loads from each of the trucks were compressed and taken away from the site in six B-double semi-trailers.

The trucks were taken to dump sites at Rochedale and Swanbank, with the Rochedale facility taking one truck and Swanbank taking five.

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Massingham said rubbish at each of the sites was quarantined over the weekend.

"We are currently planning an extensive search of both those sites to try and recover the remains of the person we believe to be Lesley Trotter," he said.

A large-scale search was sparked when Trotter vanished one day after seeing her family, with more than 130 police and State Emergency Services (SES) volunteers involved.

Massingham confirmed yesterday police believed Trotter had died.

Trotter's next-of-kin had been informed, he said.

"This is traumatic to them … it would be concerning to any family," he said.

"Particularly a lady of that age looking forward to the next chapter of her life.

"It's a very sad story."

Massingham said police would treat the matter as suspicious until further information became available.

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An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger laws to prevent others from suffering the same fate.

Ng Chuan Sing and his wife Lim Siew Guan, both in their early 80s, unknowingly purchased at least two pufferfish from an online vendor on March 25, said authorities in the southern state of Johor.

The same day Lim fried the fish for lunch and began to experience "breathing difficulties and shivers," authorities said. An hour after eating the meal, her husband Ng also started showing similar symptoms, they added.

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The couple was rushed to hospital and admitted to the intensive care unit, and Lim was pronounced dead at 7pm local time.

Ng fell into a coma for eight days but his condition worsened and he died on Saturday morning, said the couple's daughter, Ng Ai Lee, who gave a press conference at the couple's home on Sunday before their funeral.

Ng demanded accountability for her parents' death and for stronger laws in Malaysia, where at least 30 species of pufferfish are commonly found in surrounding waters.

"Those responsible for their deaths should be held accountable under the law and I hope the authorities will speed up investigations," Ng said.

"I also hope the Malaysian government will beef up enforcement and help to raise public awareness on pufferfish poisoning to prevent such incidents from happening again."

Malaysian law prohibits the sale of poisonous and harmful food like pufferfish meat and the offense carries a fine of $3410 AUD or a prison term of up to two years.

Despite the dangers, poisonous pufferfish are sold at many Malaysian wet markets, experts said.

"It's considered exotic and tends to attract consumers," said Aileen Tan, a marine biologist and director at the Universiti Sains Malaysia Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies.

"Once pufferfish have been cleaned and sold as slices, it is nearly impossible for the public to know the type of fish that they purchased," Tan warned.

"As for sellers, it is debatable on their (part) if they are aware (of the risks)."

"There needs to be more awareness about the risks of consuming puffer fish, maybe authorities need to look at special certifications for vendors and suppliers," she said.

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Highly prized but deadly delicacy

Commonly referred to as 'fugu', the Japanese term for pufferfish, pufferfish meat is enjoyed as a highly-priced delicacy despite containing deadly poison.

The fish's organs, as well as skin, blood and bones, contain high concentrations of a deadly poison known as tetrodotoxin.

Ingestion can rapidly cause tingling around the mouth and dizziness, which may be followed by convulsions, respiratory paralysis and death, medical experts say.

It is most commonly served in high-end Tokyo restaurants as sashimi and hot pot ingredients but has also caught on in popularity in countries like South Korea and Singapore, where dedicated fugu restaurants operate.

Under Japanese law, fugu chefs must undergo extensive apprenticeships of up to three years before they are licensed and allowed to handle and prepare the fish for food.

Incorrectly prepared fugu has been found to be one of the most frequent causes of food poisoning in Japan, according to its health ministry.

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There is no known antidote to the poison.

Despite the danger and risks, fugu has grown in popularity especially among gourmets and thrill seekers and is now also eaten countries outside Japan, at times, unregulated.

In 2020, food poisoning killed three people in the Philippines after they ate pufferfish from a local barbecue stand.

The Malaysian health ministry said 58 poisoning incidents involving pufferfish consumption, including 18 deaths, were reported in the country between 1985 and 2023.

Photos shared by Ng on Facebook showed two pufferfish cooked by the couple — fried, headless and served on plates.

Their deaths sparked a public outcry and outpouring of sympathy, authorities are investigating who sold them the fish.

"The state district health office has opened investigations under the Food Act 1983… and carried out an investigation on the ground to identify the supplier, wholesaler and seller of the pufferfish," Ling Tian Soon, chief of the Johor Health and Unity Committee, said in a statement issued Sunday.

He added that his health department would be holding discussions with the Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia, a government agency overseeing seafood supplies in the country as well as local universities with fishery expertise.

"Information on pufferfish has also been posted on the Health Ministry's Food Safety and Quality Facebook page," Ling said.

"We urge the public to be careful when choosing their food, especially if it has known risks."

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A Louisville bank employee armed with a rifle opened fire at his workplace, killing five people — including a close friend of Kentucky's governor — while live streaming the attack on Instagram, authorities said.

Police arrived as shots were still being fired inside Old National Bank and killed the shooter in an exchange of gunfire, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said.

The city's mayor, Craig Greenberg, called the attack "an evil act of targeted violence."

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The shooting, the 15th mass killing in the country this year, comes just two weeks after a former student killed three children and three adults at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, about 260km to the south.

That state's governor and his wife also had friends killed in that shooting.

In Louisville, the chief identified the shooter as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, who she said was live streaming during the attack.

"That's tragic to know that that incident was out there and captured," she said.

Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, said in a statement that it had "quickly removed the livestream of this tragic incident this morning."

Social media companies have imposed tougher rules over the past few years to prohibit violent and extremist content. They have set up systems to remove posts and streams that violate those restrictions, but shocking material like the Louisville shooting continues to slip through the cracks, prompting lawmakers and other critics to lash out at the technology industry for slipshod safeguards and moderation policies.

Nine people, including two police officers, were treated for injuries from the Louisville shooting, University of Louisville Hospital spokeswoman Heather Fountaine said in an email.

One of the wounded, identified as 57-year-old Deanna Eckert, later died, police said Monday night.

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One of the wounded officers, 26-year-old Nickolas Wilt, graduated from the police academy on March 31. He was in critical condition after being shot in the head and having surgery, the police chief said.

At least three patients had been discharged.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he lost one of his closest friends in the shooting — Tommy Elliott — in the building not far from the minor league ballpark Louisville Slugger Field and Waterfront Park.

"Tommy Elliott helped me build my law career, helped me become governor, gave me advice on being a good dad," said Beshear, his voice shaking with emotion.

"He's one of the people I talked to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. He was an incredible friend."

Also killed in the shooting were Josh Barrick, Jim Tutt and Juliana Farmer, police said.

"These are irreplaceable, amazing individuals that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us," the governor said.

It was the second time that Beshear was personally touched by a mass tragedy since becoming governor.

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In late 2021, one of the towns devastated by tornadoes that tore through Kentucky was Dawson Springs, the hometown of Beshear's father, former two-term Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear.

Andy Beshear frequently visited Dawson Springs as a boy and has talked emotionally about his father's hometown.

Beshear spoke as the investigation in Louisville continued and police searched for a motive. Crime scene investigators could be seen marking and photographing numerous bullet holes in the windows near the bank's front door.

As part of the investigation, police descended on the neighbourhood where the suspect lived, about 5 miles (8 kilometres) south of the downtown shooting.

The street was blocked as federal and local officers talked to residents. One home was cordoned off with caution tape.

Kami Cooper, who lives in the neighbourhood, said she didn't recall ever meeting the suspect but said it's an unnerving feeling to have lived on the same street as someone who could do such a thing.

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"I'm almost speechless. You see it on the news but not at home," Cooper said.

"It's unbelievable, it could happen here, somebody on my street."

A man who fled the building during the shooting told WHAS-TV that the shooter opened fire with a long rifle in a conference room in the back of the building's first floor.

"Whoever was next to me got shot — blood is on me from it," he told the news station, pointing to his shirt. He said he fled to a break room and shut the door.

Deputy Police Chief Paul Humphrey said the actions of responding police officers undoubtedly saved lives.

"This is a tragic event," he said.

"But it was the heroic response of officers that made sure that no more people were more seriously injured than what happened."

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Just a few hours later and blocks away, an unrelated shooting killed one man and wounded a woman outside a community college, police said.

The 15 mass shootings this year are the most during the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009, when 16 had occurred by April 10, according to a mass killings database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

Going back to 2006, the first year for which data has been compiled, the years with the most mass killings were 2019 and 2022, with 45 and 42 mass killings recorded during the entire calendar year.

The pace in 2009 slowed later in the year, with 32 mass killings recorded that year.

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