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An 11-foot- (3.5 meter-)long alligator killed a burglary suspect who apparently jumped into a Florida lake to evade arrest, police said on Tuesday.

Police said Matthew Riggins, 22, went missing on November 13, after telling his girlfriend that he planned to go to the town of Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another suspect.

Ten days later, divers found Riggins' body -- missing parts of both legs and an arm -- in a lake in the town.

Authorities also determined that an alligator in the water appeared to be behaving aggressively.

After the reptile was removed from the lake and euthanized, authorities analyzed the contents of the gator's stomach and confirmed the remains were Riggins'.

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To whom it may concern: please claim your Boeing 747s

Still puzzled by the mystery of missing flight MH370, Malaysian airport authorities now have the opposite problem: three Boeing 747 planes left unclaimed at the country's main airport.

The operators of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) have placed a bizarre advertisement in a Malaysian newspaper seeking the owners of three 747-200F aircraft apparently abandoned there.

"If you fail to collect the aircraft within 14 days of the date of this notice, we reserve the right to sell or otherwise dispose of the aircraft" under Malaysian regulations, said the ad which ran in Monday's edition of The Star.

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Beijing chokes under ‘hazardous’ air pollution; red alert on

PTI
Published Dec 9, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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BeijingAs smog-hit Beijing enforced its first-ever red alert for pollution on Tuesday, air in the Chinese capital turned “hazardous” even as restrictions kept half of private cars in the city of over 22 million people off the roads and schools and construction sites closed. Beijing’s air this morning turned from “very unhealthy” to “hazardous” as PM 2.5 ” particulate matter with size equal to or less than 2.5 micron and the main gauge to identify pollutant particles in the…

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