[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Australia's highest court has ruled a bureaucrat injured while having sex on a work trip is not entitled to workers' compensation Keep this in mind next time you get fired up in Kansas City...
The bureaucrat, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was hospitalised in November 2007 after a glass light fitting above a bed she was having sex in fell onto her face injuring her nose and mouth. "Owwww! It broke by node! By node id broke!"
The woman also suffered psychological injury. "Owww! By psyche! By psyche id broke!"
The woman was visiting a regional office observing the budget review process, meeting regional staff and undertaking training -- and staying in a motel room booked by her employer. They left the light on for her...
According to the court transcript the fitting was pulled from its mount either by the woman or by her acquaintance. "Harold! Don't swing from the... [CRASH!]"
The important test case was brought by Comcare, the government's insurer, which said it centred on whether the woman was "considered 'in the course of employment' for workers' compensation purposes." "Yer honor, her contract of employment don't say nothin' about no damn chandeliers!"
"It wudn't a chandelier! It wuz a light fixture!"
The ruling, which would have flow-on effects for other compensation cases, shows that in order to be eligible for compensation Australian workers must be "expressly or impliedly induced or encouraged by the employer" to undertake an activity which leads to injury. So if it'd been her boss swinging from the chandelier she'd have been covered?
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Whew, that's a relief. I was afraid the injury was more intimate...or something.
Geez, how embarrassing. Imagine what her husband/boyfriend/lover said when she got home with the black eye and the missing tooth...
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I know what they'd say here in East Tennessee, Bill. "Howdy, Sis."
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Compensation denied: Regardless of the speed setting, ceiling fan motors and mounts were never designed for wicker basket chair attachments.
[Al Ahram] Libya's oil crisis deepened on Tuesday after protesters blocking western fields shunned talks and locals denied that an eastern terminal would reopen, frustrating government efforts to end three months of disruptions. Libya's oil exports have dropped to less than 10 percent of capacity or 90,000 barrels per day, Rooters calculations show, as renewed protests this week halted operations at western ports and fields, supporting global oil prices.
The head of Italia's Eni, the biggest foreign oil company in Libya and part owner of the Mellitah joint venture, said exports from Mellitah terminal had not been stopped though there was social unrest.
Traders, however, said crude oil loading remained suspended from both Zawiya and Mellitah ports in the west.
Natural gas exports are carried to Italia via pipeline and sources have said those supplies come mainly from an offshore field and have been steady for the last few weeks.
Libyan oil officials were not immediately available to comment on Libyan exports, but Oil Minister Abdelbari Arusi said on Monday overall production had sunk below 300,000 bpd.
Any imminent agreement to even partially resume exports appeared elusive.
Arusi paid an emergency visit to the western Sharara field on Monday and discussed pay increases with oil workers there. He was forced to leave without a deal, however, after local protesters refused to meet him.
"It is regrettable that we return to Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... without reaching an agreement with local protesters," the National Oil Corporation (NOC) website quoted Arusi as saying before he left.
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I hate to say it but our step-child treatment of Libya is not going to end well.
The old description of most Islamic countries being "Tribes with Flags" is ringing truer every day.
Sad, the country has a lot going for it IF someone really cared enough to make sure Libya doesn't turn into Somalia on the Med.
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[An Nahar] Algeria on Tuesday branded as unacceptable comments published by official Moroccan media in response to criticism of its human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... policy in Western Sahara, in the latest barbed exchange between Rabat and Algiers.
The insults by the North African arch-rivals come ahead of a report to be presented to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday by special envoy Christopher Ross, who visited the region this month.
In a speech read on his behalf by the justice minister, Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... said an international mechanism to monitor human rights in the disputed territory was needed "more than ever."
Bouteflika referred to what he called "the massive and systematic human rights violations that take place inside the occupied territories to suppress the peaceful struggle" of the Sahrawis for freedom of expression and association.
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Morocco built several empty towns in Western Sahara, ready for Refugees coming back from Tindouf
The indigenous population of Western Sahara is usually known in Western media as Sahrawis. But they are also referred to in Morocco as "Southerners" or "Southern Berbers". They are Hassaniya-speaking or Berber-speaking tribes of Berber origin. Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage, effectively continuations of the tribal groupings of Hassaniya-speaking and Zenaga-Berber speaking Moorish tribes extending south into Mauritania and north into Morocco as well as east into Algeria. The Sahrawis are traditionally nomadic bedouins with a life style very similar to that of the Tuareg Berbers from whom Sahrawis most likely have descended, and they can be found in all surrounding countries. War and conflict has led to major population displacement.
As of July 2004, an estimated 267,405 people (excluding about 160,000 Moroccan military personnel) lived in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara. Many people from parts of Morocco have come to live in the territory, and these latest arrivals are today thought to outnumber the indigenous Western Sahara Sahrawis. The precise size and composition of the population is subject to political controversy.
The Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara are barren. This area has a very small population, estimated to be approximately 30,000 in 2008. The population is primarily made up of nomads who engage in herding camels back and forth between the Tindouf area and Mauritania. However, the presence of mines scattered throughout the territory by the Moroccan army makes it a dangerous way of life.
[Al Ahram] The leftist Popular Current group plans to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections in coalition with the Rebel (Tamarod) group, which helped spearhead opposition to former president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... 's rule.
The Popular Current, a Nasserist-oriented movement led by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, said in a Tuesday statement that it agreed with Rebel on the principle of "electoral coordination."
"The two groups agreed on the importance of...building the largest coalition regrouping the revolution's forces...and presenting candidates representative of this camp to the next parliamentary elections," read the statement.
The Popular Current said the coalition's political programme would be built on the bases of "freedom, social justice and national independence."
"The Popular Current and Rebel are very close, since many of Rebel's members and founding members were originally members of the Popular Current," a spokesperson for the Popular Current, Ahmed Atef, told Ahram Online.
He added, however, that the two groups are independent entities.
Tuesday's statement also said that the two allies would reach out to other political forces "to build the coalition as quickly as possible and form a joint direction composed of representatives of all the forces."
Atef said no agreement has yet been made with the National Salvation Front, a key anti-Morsi coalition that includes Sabbahi as well as other leftist and centrist politicians.
Atef said that the groups that make up the NSF "were mostly patriotic forces which sided with the revolution, so it is natural that any coalition would include them."
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[An Nahar] Mozambique troops have seized a second military base of the former Renamo rebels, the presidency said Tuesday, as tit-for-tat attacks raise concerns of renewed conflict after two decades of peace in the country.
Presidential front man Edson Macuacua, said the latest raid occurred on Monday in Maringue in central Mozambique.
"There was an exchange of fire but no loss of human life," he said.
It was the second attack on a base belonging to the rebel-movement-turned-opposition-party in just over a week.
Last Monday, government forced captured Renamo's main Sathundjira bush camp in the central mountains of central Gorongosa.
The assault prompted Renamo to declare void a 1992 peace deal that ended the 16-year civil war the group launched against the socialist Frelimo state shortly after independence from Portugal.
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama survived last week's base siege but his right-hand man, a politician, was killed, the group claimed.
Since that attack, there have been sporadic outbreaks of violence in what the government claims are reprisal attacks by Renamo, while the group has accused coppers of beating up party members.
The presidential front man on Tuesday said by seizing the Renamo bases, the government had militarily weakened the ex-rebels.
"Their two main bases were Sathundjira and Maringue and they have been deactivated," said Macuacua.
"They are weak at the moment," he said. "The best thing now is for them to talk and stop doing these raids."
On Saturday there was an attack on three civilian vehicles on the southern African country's main highway which killed one and injured 10. The government pointed the finger at Renamo, which denied responsibility.
Last Tuesday, armed gunnies attacked a cop shoppe in the Maringue district near Renamo's fallen base camp in an apparent act of retaliation, with no casualties reported.
Renamo became the main opposition party after the 1992 agreement, but it has lost every national election since.
Last November, Dhlakama returned to Sathundjira, saying he would retrain his soldiers for a revolution.
Government troops have been reinforced in the area since then, and there have been repeated festivities.
Officially, Renamo is demanding a bigger role in electoral bodies and its fighters' integration into the military. But analysts say the group really wants a cut of lucrative revenues from new coal mines and upcoming offshore gas exploitation.
Despite belligerent statements, both Frelimo and Renamo representatives have said they do not want to return to war.
The civil war between the two sides killed one million people and left the economy in ruins.
Analysts say the former rebel movement is not a major military threat and could wage a localized guerrilla-style insurgency at most.
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Swwms rather safe to over-run an ex-rebel base.
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Why did they put the e next to the w? I ment seems.
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Mmm, I do wonder, indeed, who the backers of Renamo could be, if there were to be any, now that the Rhodies have gone and the South Africans are titz-up commies. It would be a delight to learn that for once The O had done something right! ( I can dream, can't I)?
[Al Ahram] Almost 40 people were killed in weekend fighting between armed vigilantes and former rebels near Bouar in western Central African Republic, the army said Tuesday, issuing a new toll.
"The fighting last Saturday between self-defence militias and ex-rebels killed almost 40 people, including at least 35 in the ranks of the militias, with several maimed," a source close to the general staff said.
A previous toll on Sunday said 12 people were killed.
Early Saturday, hundreds of local militias armed with military weapons and machetes encircled Bouar, a town about 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of the capital Bangui on Saturday morning, the source said.
The forces of Evil were confronted by ex-rebels of the Seleka alliance, which has been disbanded by President Michel Djotodia since they brought him to power after ousting his predecessor, Francois Bozize, in March.
Bouar lies in a region of the highly unstable and very poor landlocked nation where people were considered loyal to Bozize, who himself seized power in a coup in 2003 and was twice re-elected into office.
The forces of Evil "attacked us with RPG 7 (rocket launchers) and Kalashnikov (assault rifles), as well as home-made rifles," a maimed former rebel colonel, Al Goni Moussa, said after his transfer to Bangui.
"The fighting lasted for more than two hours. We drove back the anti-balakas (militias). Their leader, Francois alias 'Bokassa', was killed. His brother and his son were also killed," Moussa said.
The corpse count could "rise further, in light of the intensity of the fighting that followed the attack on the ex-Seleka base and on the Bouar aerodrome by the self-defence militia," an army source said.
"This is really a rebellion taking shape," said a source in the president's office who asked not to be named. "Those who are behind this rebellion have also grabbed credit for the attacks on Bossangoa and Bouca" in the northwest," he added.
Early in September, attacks by hitherto unknown militia forces that emerged to protect the population from local warlords killed almost 100 people in the Bossangoa region.
Atrocities blamed on Seleka forces -- whom the regime is integrating into the regular armed forces -- have led to communal violence, sparking fears that festivities may take a religious turn, pitting Moslems against Christians, who make up about 80 percent of the population of some 4.5 million.
Most of the fighters in the movements that formed the Seleka alliance profess the Islamic faith and Djotodia, who was sworn in on August 18 to oversee a transition back to democracy, is the country's first Moslem head of state.
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And I thought the puppy firebombs were too psychotic for belief... these people are f*cking nuts! Only one treatment is possible, and there won't be any escapes or repeat offenders.
Several men abducted a three-year-old Saudi girl and took turns in raping her before dumping the child near a hospital in a serious condition.
Disclosing the crime on Monday, police said they had arrested three suspects and two women and that more could be arrested in connection with the rape.
Doctors at the hospital in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah said the child was found crying and in serious condition in front of the hospital on Ramadan 13, adding that she is still in the intensive care unit struggling for her life.
Russia spied on foreign powers at last month's G20 summit by giving delegations USB pen drives capable of downloading sensitive information from laptops, it was claimed today.
They were Soviet pen drives, so they were as big as a toaster...
The devices were given to foreign delegates, including heads of state, at the summit near St Petersburg, according to reports in two Italian newspapers, La Stampa and Corriere della Sera.
Downing Street said David Cameron was not given one of the USB sticks said to have contained a Trojan horse programme, but did not rule out the possibility that officials in the British delegation had received them. The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "My understanding is that the Prime Minister didn't receive a USB drive because I think they were a gift for delegates, not for leaders."
Asked if Downing Street staff were given the USBs, he said: "I believe they were part of the gifts for delegates."
Delegations also received mobile phone recharging devices which were also reportedly capable of secretly tapping into emails, text messages and telephone calls.
But they were Soviet rechargers, so they were as big as a toaster...
Suspicions were first raised about the Russian spying campaign by Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, according to Corriere della Sera, which carried the story on its front page. He ordered the USB pen drives and other devices received by the delegates in St Petersburg to be analysed by intelligence experts in Brussels, as well as Germany's secret service.
A memorandum was then sent out to G20 members, the Italian daily claimed.
"The USB pen drives and the recharging cables were able to covertly capture computer and mobile phone data," the secret memo said.
The devices were "a poisoned gift" from Vladimir Putin, claimed La Stampa, the Turin-based daily.
"They were Trojan horses designed to obtain information from computers and cell phones," the paper said.
The investigations into the alleged spying devices were ongoing, the reports said. It was not known if every foreign delegation and head of state had been given the covert spying devices.
But Brussels sources said they were baffled by the allegations and expressed total confidence in the security of devices used by EU delegates, including at the St Petersburg summit.
A diplomat said it would be a "schoolboy error" to put a free memory stick into a computer at such a summit because of obvious security concerns. He said any security-trained diplomat would be alert to such unvetted "freebies".
You're assuming the average diplomat is as smart as the average school boy. Diplomats should know better about honey traps too, but honey traps still work...
Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's spokesman, flatly denied the allegations, describing the Italian stories as a poorly disguised effort to divert attention from reports of US intelligence services spying on Angela Merkel and other European allies.
"These are really funny reports, actually. First of all they have no sources.
"We killed them."
"It is a bold attempt to switch attention from very real problems existing between European capitals and Washington. It is a classic example of that," he told the Telegraph on Tuesday.
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No one evar! suspects the Honey.
* See also DAILY STAR LEBANON > US SPY CHIEF SAYS ALLIES SPY ON AMERICAN LEADERS, INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
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* TOPIX > [Daily Star.LB] OBAMA MUST FIX THE DAMAGE DONE TO US TRANS-ATLANTIC RELATIONS.
* PRAVDA > IS PRESIDENT OBAMA "MAN ENOUGH" TO TELL THE TRUTH?
Will the OWG Globalists + aligned impose on post-USSR Mama Russia the same UNO-approved privacy restrictions they wish to impose on the "Sole" Superpower USA???
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Nonsense. Everybody knows that only the US spies on other countries.
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Nyet, I seriously doubt that the Russians would do such a stupid thing. This is Putin's FSB after all.
And if you read the original source it doesn't say that actually a Trojan was found, just that the sticks were "suitable"... which of course any stick is especially when it's bootable.
Oh btw you may find a Trojan on new USB sticks you buy. Happens all the time. Sloppy manufacturing practices, when they often put some programs on your stick.
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[NYPOST] A 13-year-old girl has dug herself out of a muddy grave after being raped by two men who then buried her alive in Pakistan.
The teen was abducted from her local village in the Punjab province while she was walking to Koran lessons.
Her father Siddique Mughal told police his daughter had been taken, but they refused to cooperate, Outlook India reported.
The men took the young girl to an isolated place and raped her and then buried her alive as they believed she died during the brutal attack.
But the girl managed to dig her way out the muddy grave and caught the attention of passers-by who helped her to a local medical center.
After local police refused to investigate, the Lahore High Court Chief Justice's Complaint Cell formally directed them to arrest the girl's attackers and complete a report on the incident without delay.
A sessions judge for the local Toba Tek Singh region has also been asked to look into the matter.
Child rape remains a problem in Pakistan where local activist group Sahil said cultural myths persist such as HIV positive men believing they can be cured through sex with a virgin.
Statistic show cases of child rape have risen from 668 in 2002 to 2,788 last year, according to the International Business Times.
"We still think these statistics are just a fraction of what's going on," Sanihl's executive director Manizeh Bano told the International Business Times.
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To be honest I'm amazed the gov hasn't had the car companies install an ignition kill on every vehicle that can be remotely activated by law enforcement.
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... Is possible in bad traffic? (Somehow hit enter before I was finished). I wonder what the range is, wind effects, and how weather (temp and precip) affects adhesion
[The Blaze] Shokazoba, an Afrobeat band, reportedly had its Halloween performance at Hampshire College allegedly cancelled because the members of the group are too white to play Afrobeat music. I hope this logic doesn't prevail among cafes in the south.
The bands keyboard player, Jason Moses, told MassLive.com that about 30 people were able to execute an online campaign to have their show at the annual Halloween event shut down. He said the band is not even all white, but race shouldnt matter anyway. If you like your band, you can keep your band....period !
Its not important to us. Music and art has the opportunity to transcend all that, Moses said. The Hype Committee, which apparently made the call to cancel the bands show, announced the decision on Facebook on Oct. 24:
Due to concerned students voicing their opinions about the band Shokazoba, we held community dialogue to hear what individuals had to say. As a result of the dialogue, and discomfort expressed by members of the community in person as well as by email, Facebook, and other means, we have removed Shokazoba from the lineup for Hampshire Halloween.
Further, a Hampshire College spokeswoman said in a statement that students questioned the selection of one band, asking whether it was a predominantly white Afrobeat band, and expressing their concerns about cultural appropriation and the need to respect marginalized cultures. Cultural marginalization? Behold the NFL, NBA, and EBT.
Moses says the entire experience has been disgusting.
It felt like we were demonized. I didnt feel they should cancel us, he said. Demonized? Sounds like Hype to me.
The keyboard player also revealed his group singed a performance contract with the Hype Committee that prohibits the school from discriminated against based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, physical ability or sexual orientation. Signed contract? Time to find a lawyer I'd say.
He said he does not feel the band was dealt with in an honest way, and said he was sure some people would have wanted to see them play. Moses said the band would still play at the college, if it were organized by a different group interested in incorporating other points of view, MassLive.coms report adds.
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Contract? Lawsuit. Teach the college twerps running their little student committe like a left wing treehouse that actions have legal consequences, no matter whose feelings are "hurt"
[Breitbart] Barack Obamas Senior Advisor, ValJar, tweeted on Monday, FACT: Nothing in #ObamaCare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans. Source of regime FACTS talking points uncovered at last. Strange how it's always someone else to blame..
This flies in the face of an NBC News report that not only revealed that more than half of Americans who buy individual insurance will have their insurance cancelled because of Obamacares mandates, but also that the Obama Administration knew that fact and covered it up. The REAL magnitude of policy cancellations will not be felt until the Corporate Mandate kicks in, hence the one year program delay.
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Jarret, fuck you, you lying whore bitch. Go die in a fire. My plan is gone, replaced by one considerably more expensive with birth control, abortion services, and scads of other shit that I neither need nor want, and which I find morally objectionable to be paying for. Just give me 2 minutes locked in a windowless unobserved soundproof room alone with her to explain things.
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Ditto OS. I sincerely the people who voted for these communist phuechs get a gut full of it before their time is up. Enjoy your socialist utopia you indolent, thieving, vermin.
Purvis said that citing the efforts of groups like hers as a reason not to worry about public assistance cuts was one of the most ill-informed arguments on the planet. She told Salon, the first line of defense against hunger is a food stamp. While some have had this way of romanticizing charity, she said, charity is also a system that is based on capacity and resources.
If your IRS was stopped from going after non-leftists groups maybe the question would not be resources, and now may be the best time to rein in Obama and the IRS.
Kristol is right. No one is going to starve given the resources available.
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Charity is voluntary donation of time and money to assist people that you, personally, feel deserve some help.
Voting for politicians who will take money from your wealthier neighbors in order to fund your own vision of utopia is not, and never can be, charity.
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Time to lock and load?
Time? Way, way past time. It's coming though, I can feel it. And so do a lot of other people that would never have entertained these thoughts a few years ago.
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Ref #10: We'd be a damn site better off if the food distribution sites were at work today. I'm sure we could find church congregations which would man the sites and store the food at no charge.
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When they decided they were going to take from some of the increases to food stamps to fund First Lady Michelle Obamas Lets Move program, she told Salon, We were told, you know, by the president these cuts will not happen, we wont get rid of the program.
Yet, somehow, Boosh will be blamed.
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"In fact its immoral."
A quaint and non-understood concept to the Dems, swksvolFF.
So of course they'll do more of it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Australia's highest court has ruled a bureaucrat injured while having sex on a work trip is not entitled to workers' compensation
Bouteflika
[Al Ahram] Almost 40 people were killed in weekend fighting between armed vigilantes and former rebels near Bouar in western Central African Republic, the army said Tuesday, issuing a new toll.
Russia spied on foreign powers at last month's G20 summit by giving delegations USB pen drives capable of downloading sensitive information from laptops, it was claimed today. 
[NYPOST] A 13-year-old girl has dug herself out of a muddy grave after being raped by two men who then buried her alive in Pakistan.
