見ていた記事メモ（2024-12-22）

【誤射でF/A-18を喪失】

　紅海上空で、うっかり友軍を撃墜しちゃったそう。貴重なF/A-18が！　もう生産してないんでしょ？！

BBC US warplane shot down in Red Sea 'friendly fire' incident　10 hours ago

Thomas Mackintosh

「An American fighter jet has been shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, the US military has said.

Both crew from the US Navy F/A-18 Hornet ejected safely, with one suffering minor injuries, according to Central Command.」

【ラオスでのメチルアルコール中毒の件】

BBC Father of teen who died in Laos poisonings: She was full of life 4 days ago

Tom Bennett

「The father of 19-year-old Holly Bowles, who died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos last month, has said he was in "disbelief" when he realised his daughter would not pull through.

Speaking to the BBC, Shaun Bowles described Holly as "everything you'd want your daughter to be".」

　パパさんのコメント記事。

【違法金採取労働者相手の商売】

BBC Selling sex for gold in the Amazon's illegal mines 5 December 2024

Thais Carrança and Emma Ailes

　17の時に夫に死なれ、夫の葬儀費用を出せなくて売春したのが最初という女性。いまや7人の家族を養うのにさらにあれこれ―という。

「Dayane Leite never wanted to become a sex worker but at the age of 17 her husband died of a heart attack and she couldn’t pay for the funeral.

Her home town, Itaituba in Brazil’s northern Para state, is at the heart of the country’s illegal gold-mining trade, so a friend suggested raising the money by having sex with miners, deep in the Amazon.

“Going to the mines is a roll of the dice,” she says.」

　…職場環境もえらい大変で（そりゃそうだ、発電機が止まると電気も止まって漆黒の闇になるし、野生動物はお隣さんだ…）、しかし食える。
　…養うべき子がいる若い女性が参入してくる様子。