Two King Cobras arrested, five people charged over assaults in Christchurch
12 May, 2021 02:42 AM
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Armed police raided two properties in Christchurch - one of which was reportedly linked to an unprovoked assault. Video / ODT
Armed police raided two properties in Christchurch - one of which was reportedly linked to an unprovoked assault. Video / ODT
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Two more men have been arrested in relation to three serious assaults in Christchurch in March.
The two men, aged 42 and 28, are patched members of the King Cobras gang, a police spokesperson said.
Today s arrests follow the arrests of three men last Friday.
Entirely preventable : Kiwis hospitalised because of sunburn, study finds
12 May, 2021 03:00 PM
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Excessive exposure to UV radiation will burn the skin and can lead to skin cancer.
More than 160 Kiwis and Aussies have been so badly sunburnt they were admitted to burns units and almost one in five of those people needed surgery.
Australian researchers scoured the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand to determine how many patients had been admitted for sunburn in the 10 years between 2010 and 2019.
Their findings were today published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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One of the authors, Dr Lincoln Tracy, research fellow with Monash University, told the Herald that, while it was a small percentage of the total burns cases treated, the figure was alarming given Australia and New Zealand have the highest incidence of melanoma worldwide at about 50 cases per 100,000 person-years.