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The people of 19 October

3 people in 3 stories, 24 deaths recorded, 2026

Helen Haines

Australian politician (born 1961)

  1. Independent Australian MP Helen Haines is deliberately hit by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Police arrest the car's driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital. Haines later had both her legs amputated.

    Crime & Justice · 19 Oct

Heidi Levine

American photojournalist

  1. Israel Police arrest 10 people in the occupied West Bank over attacks on American photojournalist Heidi Levine and the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, who were travelling with European diplomats, and seize vehicles and other evidence during raids.

    Conflict · 19 Oct

Raúl Castro

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 2011 to 2021

  1. A judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, issues a no-bail bond arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro after Florida attorney general James Uthmeier charged Castro with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder by directing spies to infiltrate Brothers to the Rescue and ordering the attack on their planes in 1996.

    Crime & Justice · 19 Oct · with James Uthmeier

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