A former co-ordinator at the home-care organization overseeing Florence Girard's care says interactions with the woman's caretaker grew more challenging before Girard's starvation death in 2018.

Florence Girard dropped from 100 to 50 pounds in the months before she died of starvation in October 2018. Astrid Dahl, responsible for Girard’s care, testified that she fed Girard three to four ...

While it is true that these miners were engaged in illegal mining activities, driven by desperation and extreme poverty, their actions do not justify condemnation to death by starvation,” said ...

The woman who was supposed to be caring for B.C. woman Florence Girard before she died of starvation in 2018 told a coroner's inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more ...

More than 100 people are believed to have died from starvation or dehydration, with at least 24 bodies and 34 survivors being brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in the town of Stilfontein ...

Florence Girard’s caregiver has told a British Columbia coroner’s inquest she was deterred from getting help before Girard starved to death by policies about respecting the rights of people ...

The official cause of death was “malnourishment and starvation.” Dahl was convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life in connection with Girard’s death. Girard’s sister ...

Florence Girard was so small when she died that she "looked like a child" in her casket, her sister told a British Columbia coroner's inquest into the death of the woman. Sharon Bursey told the ...

Florence Girard was so small when she died that she “looked like a child” in her coffin, her sister told a B.C. inquest into the death of the woman. Sharon Bursey told the coroner’s jury in ...

“It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation. A cruel, drawn-out death that consumed them piece by piece. This is what I saw underground. This is what we lived through, and this is ...

January 8, 2025 (KHARTOUM BAHRI) – More than 22,000 families in Sudan’s East Nile region are facing starvation after the closure of community kitchens that provided vital food aid, a local ...