From the Beeb:
Punjilal, a 75-year-old resident of a village in India’s Madhya Pradesh state had said he would die between 1500 and 1700 local time on Thursday … But the time came and passed and the fortune teller survived.
A slightly off-beat story maybe, but why on Earth did it make the front page of the BBC News site?
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I’ve corrected a typo in the title for this post, so the Permalink URI…
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…and the title…
Man thought he was going to die, but he didn’t
…are incongruous – apologies for the initial error.
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