A video of flowerpot theft from outside a house in Punjab has gone viral, but what makes it bizarre is the fact that the theft was carried out by two women who arrived in a sedan.

The women stopped outside a house in sector 78 in Mohali, showed CCTV footage. They stepped out of their sedan and walked towards the house.

The women quickly stole the flowerpots placed on the two sides of the main gate and ran towards their car and sped away.

A similar incident was reported earlier this year in which two people were purportedly seen stealing flowerpots kept in front of the Ambience Mall on the Delhi-Gurugram expressway, and putting them in an SUV.

A 50-year-old man was arrested from Gurugram in this case.

Several other incidents of flowerpot theft were reported following the G20 summit this year when Delhi roads were decked up with flowerpots and other installations.

Four labourers from Bihar died of asphyxiation after entering a septic tank at a dyeing unit in Surat’s Palsana locality, the police have said.

The incident took place at a factory on Palsana-Katodara road on Tuesday evening.

Two labourers fell unconscious while cleaning the septic tank, and two others who tried to rescue them too fainted, said an official of Pansala police station.

All four were taken out of the tank and rushed to the hospital where doctors declared them dead, the police official said.

The labourers were from Bihar and their identities were being ascertained, he added. 

Hospitals and the patients inside them “must be protected,” the White House said late Tuesday when asked about an operation by its ally Israel, which has sent troops into Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa.

The White House “won’t speak to the specifics of an ongoing Israeli military operation,” a spokesperson from the National Security Council said when asked about military move into Al-Shifa, where Israel says Palestinian group Hamas has a command center hidden beneath thousands of ailing and sheltering civilians.

“As we’ve said, we do not support striking a hospital from the air and we don’t want to see a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people trying to get medical care they deserve are caught in the crossfire. Hospitals and patients must be protected,” the spokesperson continued.

The statement came after US President Joe Biden spoke with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Tuesday, apparently before the Israeli operation into Al-Shifa was announced.

The operation was not discussed during that call, which the White House said in an earlier statement had focused on efforts to free hostages held by Hamas.

Al-Shifa hospital has been the focal point of days of fighting and nearby aerial bombardments in Israel’s war with Hamas.

Thousands of patients, staff and displaced civilians are believed to be inside the hospital complex, according to local officials.

Witnesses have described conditions as horrific, with medical procedures taking place without anesthetic, families with scant food or water living in corridors, and the stench of decomposing corpses filling the air.