5 Filipinos Burnt to Death in Qatar Car Crash

Five Filipinos were reportedly burnt to death when their car was hit by another vehicle and caught fire near Doha’s Hamad International Airport (HIA) on the Corniche-Wakrah highway yesterday, a report from Gulf Times said. Sources said 

Hamad International Airport 
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incident took place between 12:30 and 1pm. Apart from the five fatalities, a Filipina co-passenger was also seriously injured. While the Traffic Department confirmed the deceased were Filipino expatriates, their names were not immediately known. Unconfirmed reports say that one of those killed in the accident was a young child. The other vehicle in the road mishap was reportedly driven by a young national who escaped only with minor injuries. A Philippine embassy official, who visited the Hamad hospital mortuary, told Gulf Times that all bodies had been charred beyond recognition. “The bodies have so badly been burnt that even the gender of the deceased could not be verified. Forensic examination would be required to identify the victims,” he said.

It was also not known whether the victims were going to the airport to see off somebody or to receive someone.Soon after the accident, the authorities deployed several police personnel and more than 15 vehicles at the site for relief operations, inquiries found.

Sources at the Hamad Hospital said the mortuary has received five bodies, all victims of an accident from "somewhere" near the HIA.

In the wee hours on Sunday, a Qatari national and two others were killed when two cars collided near the Halul Cafe, opposite the new museum under construction, along Corniche. A Bahraini and Iranian were the other victims.

CARE ABOUT YOUR SMARTPHONE

1. Stay away from low-quality batteries. One of the potential issues pointed out with the Samsung Galaxy S4 that caught fire in Texas was that the phone’s battery was swapped for an aftermarket model. The iFix crew says low-grade smartphone batteries can be a bad idea because, in terms of quality and care in construction, “they do not follow the same standards as original manufacturers.” When replacing your phone’s battery, you’ll probably want to skip the cheapest option on eBay or Amazon and instead seek out the same one with which your Samsung, HTC, or LG phone came (from what is often referred to as the “OEM,” or original equipment manufacturer).

2.Keep your phone in a well-ventilated place while charging. The second no-no with the Texas case: The charging phone was under a pillow. Our experts’ advice: “Do not cover a charging phone with a pillow.” For obvious reasons, this isn’t good for the goal of keeping your phone from overheating. A rule of thumb would be to place a charging phone in an area away from insulating fabrics or other heat-emitting electronics (maybe not on top of a cable box, for example)

3. If you get your phone wet, have it checked by a professional. We all know it’s possible to bring a soggy smartphone back to a working condition, but the iFix team says that, despite your rescue attempts, corrosion or short circuiting can still occur inside the phone, undetectable to the naked eye. These conditions could lead to dangerous overheating of the device. The solution: Most repair services offer diagnostics services (sometimes for free) that can detect these types of problems for you. Of course, don’t expect the actual repair of corroded parts or shorted circuits to be free. Still better than waiting for an accident to happen, we say.

4. Don’t overuse your phone while it’s charging. Juicing up draws a great amount of heat to your phone, making it plenty hotter than it is during normal use. Because of this, our iFix experts say that hardware-heavy activities like graphic-intensive games, WiFi tethering, or even searching for service in a low-signal area—processes that will also warm your phone up—shouldn’t be done while your device is plugged in. Overusing the phone while charging “can create additional stress on the device and the charger,” iFix says.
A good rule of thumb: If you are Crushing some Candy while your phone is charging, and you feel the back get toasty, put the thing down. And not under your pillow, either.

5. If your phone takes a nasty drop, don’t just dust it off and move on. Similar to the “wet phone” scenario, you shouldn’t just assume that your phone is A-OK because it still powers on after an unfriendly meeting with the concrete. Some possible problems caused by a nasty drop: a small crack in an internal component, a damaged or split battery, or exposed internals via a cracked display. Having your phone taken apart by a specialist after it’s suffered some trauma is going to be the best way to go. And as smartphone screen repair by third-party services gets cheaper and cheaper, the option is now both safe and budget-friendly. Oh, and also, you won’t be constantly made fun of by your friends.

6. If you notice any overheating or sudden battery drain, you may have a problem. iFix also filled us in on a problem that’s becoming more common among its customers. Phone owners are contacting its service and complaining that phones “suddenly start overheating. No water damage. No dropping.” In the recent case of a year-old iPhone 4s, the phone suddenly began heating up and losing “a couple percent [charge] every minute.” Since the phone was not covered under AppleCare, the team assessed the possible problems and eventually decided to resolder parts of the phone’s main chip board and install a new battery. “So far it works just fine. We don’t quite know what the problem was, maybe a micro-crack on the board or chip, a loose connection, or a defective battery,” iFix said. Much the way you want a good mechanic for your car, it’s not a bad idea to have a good phone repair shop in your Rolodex for when problems like the above surface. No one is fond of the thought of forking over hard-earned money for “smartphone maintenance.” But the alternative may be too hot to handle. 
Smartphone now a days are everywhere, so we have to more careful in changing or modifying our phones. The cost are also of smartphone are very high. We should only buy the parts that best fits on our phone according to it's Specification.

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Doha gas blast kills and injures dozens

DOHA (Reuters) - Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported. About 30 others were injured in the blast at the Istanbul Restaurant that one security source said was accidental. Another security source at the scene said two Asian children were among the dead. Major General Saad bin Jassim al-Khalifi, Qatar's head of public security, said non-Qatari Arabs, Asians and one Qatari were among the dead and wounded. Preliminary investigations suggested a gas tank exploded, setting off a fire and causing part of the building to collapse, he told a news conference. But investigations were continuing to discover why the gas tank exploded. "It was a very big blast," he said. "It blew away cars and shrapnel was scattered 50 to 100 meters away." Chunks of masonry, metal debris and shattered glass lay outside the restaurant in a northwestern district of the city. Cars nearby were apparently crumpled by the explosion.

The incident was the deadliest in Qatar since May 2012, when at least 19 foreign nationals, including 13 children, were killed by a fire in an upscale shopping mall. In a separate incident on Thursday, medics and security sources at the Hamad medical city in Doha said dozens of people were hurt in the afternoon due to a gas leak at a chemical plant in an industrial area near Doha. They gave no figures or details on their condition, but said helicopters were despatched to fly victims of the leak to the Hamad medical center quickly as ambulances had been caught in heavy traffic caused by the restaurant incident. The gas- and oil-rich Gulf Arab state with an estimated national population of at least 200,000 has one of the highest standards of living in the world. The bulk of the 2 million population of Qatar are foreigners. Description Toggle Deadly blast rocks restaurant in Qatar. A gas cylinder explosion in the Qatar's capital Doha killed and wounded several people on February 27, 2014. The explosion tore through a restaurant attached to a mall in Doha, according to Qatari Television which said it could not be immediately clear if the blast was accidental. (AFP). The restaurant is on the outskirts of the capital near Landmark mall, a well-known shopping complex usually usy with families. "I was eating in a restaurant close by and suddenly heard a big (blast) and everything around me exploded," Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Kareem, an Indian driver, told Reuters at Hamad hospital. "I have too much damage now, my legs are broken and my head is (wounded)."