Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 8 as Kyiv holds door open for Easter truce

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed at least eight people across Ukraine on Friday, including in a "massive" missile and drone attack near the capital, local authorities reported.

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Ukrainian officials claim the Kremlin is changing its tactics to increase civilian suffering, shifting to daytime barrages and preparing to target more key infrastructure.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signaled Kyiv's opennessto a potential Easter truce. The holiday is celebrated on April 12 in Ukraine and Russia.

Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine is preparing for a shift in Russian aerial tactics, with intelligence indicating that future attacks will move beyondenergy infrastructure.

Russia's Defense Ministry said 192 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight across Russia and occupied Crimea.

'I have no words'

"The Kyiv region is once again under a massive Russian missile and drone attack," said Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the regional military administration, in a Telegram post on Friday.

Kalashnyk said one person died and at least eight others were wounded in strikes on three of Kyiv's satellite towns — Bucha, Fastiv and Obukhiv. Earlier in the week, residents of Buchamarked the fourth anniversaryofatrocities committed in the town by Russia's invading forces.

Obukhiv resident Lesia Podoriako, 37, told The Associated Press she was at work with her child when she learned her building had been struck.

"I found out about it through Telegram channels. Then all my friends and acquaintances started calling me, telling me that our building was attacked. I have no words. The main thing is that everyone is alive and healthy," she said.

Another person was killed in Ukraine's northern Sumy region after a Russian guided aerial bomb struck an apartment block, local Gov. Oleh Hryhorov reported. Authorities in the Kherson, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions also reported casualties from Friday's attacks.

Ukrainian officials highlighted what they said were increased daytime attacks by Russia, which they said could lead to more civilian deaths. For months, Moscow pummeled Ukraine with nighttime missile and drone strikes that could involve hundreds of drones at a time.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, said in a post on X that "almost half a thousand drones and cruise missiles" attacked Ukraine overnight.

"This is how Moscow responds to Ukraine's Easter ceasefire proposals — with brutal attacks," Sybiha said.

Kyiv floats an Easter ceasefire

Zelenskyy on Thursday signaled Kyiv's continued openness to a potential truce on Easter, which falls next week according to the Julian calendar followed by Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia.

Zelenskyy told reporters that the proposal had been communicated to Moscow through U.S. channels. He added that the Kremlin's response remains unclear.

Zelenskyyhas previously offered a ceasefire for the Easter period— but Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier this week that Moscow wants a lasting peace settlement, not a temporary truce.

President Vladimir Putinunilaterally declareda 30-hour ceasefire last Easter, but each side accused the other of breaking it.

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A change in Russian tactics?

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said Russia was increasingly striking the country during the day, an apparent departure frommonths of nighttime barrages.

Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation within Ukraine's defense ministry, said that the daytime strikes aimed to "increase civilian casualties."

"That is why the combined attack is carried out on a working day, using a large number of drones and missiles," Kovalenko wrote on Friday in a Telegram post.

Zelenskyy told reporters on Thursday that Ukraine is preparing for Russian aerial attacks that could target water systems, logistics and other critical networks. Aftermonths of sustained strikes on power facilities, Kyiv now expects increased pressure elsewhere.

"According to intelligence documents we have received, the Russians will target logistics – railways and other infrastructure. They will also target the water supply," Zelenskyy said at a press briefing.

Around midday on Friday, Russian forces dropped five aerial bombs on the city of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine. At least two people were killed and three were injured, according to a Telegram update by Vadym Filashkin, who heads the regional military administration.

Elsewhere in Ukraine on Friday, a Russian drone strike damaged a bus in the southern city of Kherson, leaving the driver seriously wounded and at least eight passengers hurt, according to regional officials.

Separately, authorities reported sustained attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, beginning on Thursday and continuing into early Friday. Drone strikes near the city center caused several injuries. Two people later died in hospital, local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote in separate Telegram updates.

Bohdan Hladykh, head of Kharkiv's Department of Emergency Situations, said Russia struck the city at least 20 times during the day on Thursday with explosive drones.

Zelenskyy says battlefield situation has stabilized

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy told reporters that the battlefield situation has stabilized, with recent intelligence assessments pointing to the most favorable conditions for Kyiv in months. Whilefighting remains intense across eastern sectors, Ukrainian forces have disrupted Russian offensives in recent weeks and regained limited ground.

"On Wednesday I received a report from our intelligence and an analysis from British intelligence. I received MI6's assessment of the situation at the front: right now, it is the best situation for Ukraine in the past 10 months," the Ukrainian leader said at a press briefing Thursday.

Zelenskyy added that Ukraine has invited U.S. negotiators to visit Kyiv, as part of ongoing discussions onsecurity guaranteesand abroader framework for ending the war. Recent talks have involved senior American officials as well as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, with Ukraine seeking clearer commitments on long-term defense support and responses to any future Russian aggression.

Ukrainian drones target Russia

Two people were hospitalized on Friday following a Ukrainian drone strike on Russia's Leningrad region, over 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) from the border, said regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko reported, who added that the drones also set fire to an "unoccupied" building within the Morozov industrial zone.

The settlement of Morozov houses a state-owned plant that makes explosives and components for ammunition, including solid fuel used in Topol-M missile systems. The plant was put under U.S., EU and other Western sanctions following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Twelve people, including at least three Russian soldiers, were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike late Thursday on Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, local Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.

Four drones were downed during the night on the approach to Moscow, mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported Friday. He did not reference any casualties or damage.

Associated Press journalists Vasilisa Stepanenko in Obukhiv and Derek Gatopoulos in Kyiv contributed.

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Myanmar’s parliament elects ruling general as president, keeping the army in charge

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's parliament on Friday electedMin Aung Hlaing,a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president.

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The move marks a nominal return to an elected government but is widely considered as an effort to keep the army in power after anelection organized by the militarythat opponents and independent observers deemed neither free nor fair, and ascivil war rages.

Transitioning to an elected government is also seen as a way to improve frosty relations with some Southeast Asian neighbors following the military takeover. China and Russia have supported the military administration, while Western powers imposed sanctions.

Min Aung Hlaing won an expected lopsided victory

Min Aung Hlaing was one of three nominees for the president's post, but was virtually guaranteed the job as lawmakers from military-backed parties and appointed members from the army hold a commanding majority in parliament.

The vote was held in the newly renovated parliament building in the capital, Naypyitaw, which wasdamaged in last year's earthquake.

Aung Lin Dwe, speaker of parliament's combined upper and lower house, announced that Min Aung Hlaing won 429 out of the 584 votes.

The two runners-up become vice presidents. Nyo Saw, a former general, had served as an adviser to Min Aung Hlaing, and Nan Ni Ni Aye, an ethnic Karen politician from the pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party, will be the country's first female vice president. All three are expected to be inaugurated next week.

Min Aung Hlaing, who holds the rank of senior general, earlier this week relinquished his post of commander-in-chief because the constitution prohibits the president from simultaneously holding the top military position. A close aide, Gen. Ye Win Oo, took over the powerful job.

Meanwhile, much of the country remains enmeshed in a bloody civil war.

Opposition group says struggle for real change continues

Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the National Unity Government — Myanmar's main opposition organization, which views itself as the country's legitimate government — charged that Min Aung Hlaing is responsible for numerous war crimes, and his easy assumption of the presidency proved that the political change some countries had hoped for will not materialize.

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"Myanmar people do not accept it. The revolution will continue with great momentum," he told The Associated Press..

The 69-year-old Min Aung Hlaing had been the military chief since 2011. Under the military-imposed constitution, he held significant powers even before overthrowing Suu Kyi's government.

Parliament members were elected in three phases in December and January. Major opposition parties, including Suu Kyi's former ruling National League for Democracy, were either blocked from running or refused to compete under conditions they deemed unfair. Suu Kyi, 80, is serving a 27-year prison term on charges widely viewed as politically motivated.

Myanmar was under military rule from 1962 to 2016, when Suu Kyi's party won a landslide election victory. It won an even greater mandate in the 2020 polls, but the army staged a takeover in 2021 before the new parliament could convene.

Peaceful protests against military rule were then put down with deadly force, pushing pro-democracy activists toturn to armed resistanceand ally themselves with ethnic minority groups who have been battling for greater autonomy for decades.

Deadly repression birthed ongoing civil war

Security concerns meant voting in the recent election could be held in only 263 of the country's 330 townships.

Nearly 8,000 activists and civilians have been killed since the 2021 army takeover, and some 22,872 political detainees are imprisoned, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, an independent group that tracks rights violations.

The military's major reliance onairstrikes— 1,140 strikes in 2025 alone, according to the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project — accounts for hundreds of civilian casualties.

"If Min Aung Hlaing thinks that an official civilian title will shield him from prosecution for the many grave violations of international law that he is accused of overseeing as head of the military, that is not how international justice works," Amnesty International Myanmar researcher Joe Freeman said in statement.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2024 beganan investigation into charges of crimes against humanityafter the chief prosecutor applied for an arrest warrant for Min Aung Hlaing over the military's brutal persecution of the Rohingya minority.

At long-awaited hearings at theInternational Court of Justicein January this year,Myanmardefended itself against accusations that it was responsible for genocide against theRohingya. The West African country ofGambiafirst filed the case in 2019.

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US launches rescue operation after Iranian state TV claims fighter jet went down, AP source says

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military launched a rescue operation Friday, an Israeli military officer said, after a local state-run channel said an American fighter jet went down oversouthwestern Iranand at least one crew member ejected.

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Israel is helping the United States with the search and rescue operation, according to the officer, who briefed on the information who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a U.S. announcement. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that President Donald Trump had been briefed but did not offer any additional information.

It would mark the first time the U.S. has lost aircraft in Iranian territory and marks a dramatic escalation in the war since it began five weeks ago. It was not clear if the jet was shot down or crashed.

Iran fired on targets across the Mideast on Friday, as Tehran kept the pressure on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors, despite U.S. and Israeli insistence thatIran's military capabilitieshave been all but destroyed.

Iran's attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure and itstight grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas transits in peacetime, have roiled stock markets, sent oil prices skyrocketing, and threatened to raise the cost of many basic goods, including food.

Television anchor urges residents to hand over pilot

Social media footage showed American drones, aircraft and helicopters flying over the mountainous region where the Iranian channel said at least one pilot bailed out of the fighter jet.

An anchor on a channel affiliated with Iranian state television urged residents to hand over any "enemy pilot" to police and promised a reward for anyone who did. The channel is in Kohkilouyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, an intensely rural and mountainous region that spans over 15,500 square kilometers (5,900 square miles).

Authorities also urged the public to search for the pilot in neighboring Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province.

The number of crew on board was not immediately known. The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command didn't immediately respond to several messages seeking comment.

Throughout the war, Iran has made a series of claims about shooting down piloted enemy aircraft that turned out not to be true. Friday was the first time that Iran went on television urging the public to look for a suspected downed pilot.

An on-screen crawl earlier urged the public to "shoot them if you see them," referring to social media footage circulating of what appeared to be U.S. aircraft in the area. The channel showed metal debris in the back of a pickup truck while making the announcement but provided no other immediate details.

Iran targets a desalination plant and a refinery

The claim came after Kuwait's Mina al-Ahmadi oil refinery came under Iranian attack, and the state-run Kuwait Petroleum Corp. said firefighters were working to control several blazes.

Kuwait also said an Iranian attack caused "material damage" to a desalination plant. Such plants are responsible for most of the drinking water for Gulf states, and they have become a major target in the war.

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Sirens also sounded in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed several Iranian drones, and Israel reported incoming missiles.

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates shut down a gas field after a missile interception reportedly rained debris on it and started a fire.

Activists reported strikes around Tehran and the central city of Isfahan, but it wasn't immediately clear what was hit. A day earlier, Iran said the U.S. hit a major bridge, which was still under construction,killing eight people.

In Lebanon, where Israel has launched a ground invasion in its fight with the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militant group, an Israeli drone strike on worshippers leaving Friday prayers near Beirut killed two people, according to the state‑run National News Agency

More than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran since the war began on Feb. 28 with U.S. and Israeli strikes. In a review released Friday, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, a U.S.-based group, said it found that civilian casualties were clustered around strikes on security and state-linked sites "rather than indiscriminate bombardment" of urban areas.

More than two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank, 19 have been reported dead in Israel, and 13 U.S.service membershave been killed.

More than 1,300 peoplehave been killedand more than 1 million displaced in Lebanon. Ten Israeli soldiers have also died there.

Iran is keeping a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz

World leadershave struggledto end Iran's stranglehold on the strait, which has had far-reaching consequences for the global economy and has proved to be itsgreatest strategic advantagein the war.The U.N. Security Council wasexpected to take up the matteron Saturday.Trump has vacillated on America's role in the strait, alternately threatening Iran if it doesn't open the waterway and telling other nations to "go get your own oil." On Friday, he said in a post on social media that, "With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE."Spot prices of Brent crude, the international standard, were around $109 Friday, up more than 50% since the start of the war, when Iran began restricting traffic through the strait.Iran's former top diplomat suggests terms to end the war

World leadershave struggledto end Iran's stranglehold on the strait, which has had far-reaching consequences for the global economy and has proved to be itsgreatest strategic advantagein the war.

The U.N. Security Council wasexpected to take up the matteron Saturday.

Trump has vacillated on America's role in the strait, alternately threatening Iran if it doesn't open the waterway and telling other nations to "go get your own oil." On Friday, he said in a post on social media that, "With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE."

Spot prices of Brent crude, the international standard, were around $109 Friday, up more than 50% since the start of the war, when Iran began restricting traffic through the strait.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif — a diplomat with long experience negotiating with the West who remains close to a pragmatic wing of Iran's leadership — wrote on Friday in Foreign Affairs magazine that the time has come to end what he referred to as a stalemate.

The U.S. and Iran have proposed dueling plans, and Zarif's proposal included elements of both in a sign part of Iran's leadership might be willing to negotiate.

Iran "should offer to place limits on its nuclear program and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to all sanctions — a deal Washington wouldn't take before but might accept now," he wrote.

It's not clear how much to read into the proposal from Zarif, who has no official position in Iran's government, but would likely not have published such a piece without at least some authorization from senior leaders.

Rising reported from Bangkok and Mednick reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Sylvie Corbet in Paris, Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Tong-hyung Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Michelle L. Price in Washington contributed to this report.

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Brian Cox tears into Edward Norton, Margot Robbie, and more stars in scathing interview: 'I'm gonna say what I want to say'

As he's made apparent many times before,Brian Coxisn't afraid to share his opinion on the work of his fellow thespians.

In a scathing new interview withThe Times, published on Friday, Cox tears into former costars and Oscar nominees alike, includingEdward Norton,Margot Robbie, andJohnny Depp.

Cox said he turned down the role of the governor in thePirates of the Caribbeanfranchise because he did not want to work alongside Depp, who he thinks is "so overblown, so overrated." (The part eventually went to Jonathan Pryce.)

As for his25th Hourco-star Norton, Cox said he's "a pain in the arse" while also calling outIan McKellen's acting as "not to my taste."

He even went so far as to bash a film he's not yet seen due to the casting:Emerald Fennell'sWuthering Heights. "'Keith Cliff! It's me, Cathy!'" Cox reportedly declaimed "in a cod Australian accent" to represent Robbie, according toThe Times. "'How ya doing, Keith? Awright?' 'Yeah, I'm awright!'"

The outlet said Cox laughed before adding, "Margot Robbie is far too beautiful for that role. I mean, I think there should be something more of the Gypsy about her but it's wrong of me to judge. It may be a brilliant film."

On his no-holds-barred approach to discussing his craft — and others in the industry — Cox admitted he's too old to care about what people think of him.

"Well, I don't know yet if it's caused me problems," he said. "I mean, my wife [Nicole Ansari-Cox] keeps saying, 'Brian, be careful. Brian, be careful.' I think, 'F--- it, I don't want to be careful any more! I'll be 80 this year. F--- it! I'm gonna say what I want to say.'"

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The Emmy winner also explained that, even thoughDaniel Day-Lewis asked him to callto discuss his thoughts on method acting (in light of Cox's 2023 commentsabout hisSuccessionco-star Jeremy Strong's "f---ing annoying" approach), he declined to make contact.

"No, I haven't reached out because it's got nothing to do with Dan Day-Lewis," he said. "Dan Day-Lewis, he's discreet. He never upsets it [the filming process]. He's never, sort of… I don't want to go on about Jeremy, because I've got into a lot of problems and he's begged me to stop talking about him. He's a good actor, Jeremy. He's a wonderful actor. It's just all the bollocks that goes with it. You watch children — they don't say, 'What's my motivation?' They just do it!"

Cox aimed his criticisms at those behind the camera as well. He said Michael Caton-Jones is "a complete arsehole," David Hare is a "see you next Tuesday" andQuentin Tarantinois "meretricious."

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When discussing his feature directorial debut,Glenrothan, Cox said he's "more egalitarian than a lot of directors, the kind who call themselves visionaries."

He added, "I like to honor the actor's performance. With a Quentin Tarantino film, what you see is all Quentin Tarantino. That's not me. I don't want to do that."

Glenrothan, which stars Cox and fellow ScotAlan Cummingas two brothers who bear the scars of their overbearing father while battling over the family whisky business, is out in the U.K. on April 17.

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Duchess Meghan shares rare video Prince Harry, Archie: 'My boys'

ForPrince HarryandDuchess Meghan, it's still ski season.

Meghantook tosocial media Thursday, April 2, to share a video of her husband and their son Prince Archie, 6, swerving down the slopes. "My boys. Quick learner, Archie! So proud ❤️," she captioned the Instagram post, in which you can see the young royal cruise down a small mountain, trailing his father.

Meghan seeminglyshot the scene from behind, and Lilibet,the couple'syoungest daughter, was absent from the video. It was unclear where it was shot, though thetwo currently reside in Californiaafter moving from the U.K. in 2020.

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Meghan'spost comes amid a busy start to the year for the royal couple. In February, they traveled to the Middle East fora two-day trip in Jordan. The royal pair arrived at the invitation of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, to shed light on communities affected by war and displacement, theBBC reported.

The duo will also head to Australia later in April, marking their first visit to the country since a royal tour brought them down under in 2018.

The trip holds serious symbolism forthe couple, who last visited just five months after their nuptials. While celebrating the Invictus Games in Sydney, they announcedMeghan's pregnancy with their first child, Archie, shortly after arriving. A year and a half later, they stepped back from their roles as senior royals amid a rift with the palace.

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Senators urge Trump to bar Chinese automakers from building cars in US

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - Three Democratic senators on Friday urged ‌President Donald Trump to ‌bar Chinese automakers from building vehicles ​in the United States and to prevent Chinese cars assembled in Mexico or Canada from entering ‌the United ⁠States.

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Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elissa Slotkin and Chuck Schumer ⁠cited Trump's comments in January in Detroit that he ​is open ​to Chinese ​automakers building U.S. ‌factories.

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"We must be clear-eyed that inviting China's automakers to set up shop in the United States would confer an insurmountable ‌economic advantage impossible for ​American automakers to ​overcome, ​and it would trigger ‌a national security crisis ​that ​could never be reversed," the lawmakers said in a letter ​to ‌Trump first reported by Reuters.

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Worker and Dad of 3 Dies After Falling 60 Feet at Construction Site

David Rodriguez, a 45-year-old construction worker and father of three, died after a 60-foot fall in Kansas

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• A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support his family

• Midwest Drywall and OSHA are investigating the incident, and work at the site has been temporarily suspended

A 45-year-old construction worker and father of three has died after falling approximately 60 feet at a job site in Wichita, Kan., according to local reports.

David Rodriguez was working at the Bio-Med building near English Street and Topeka Avenue, a few blocks west of INTRUST Bank Arena, when the incident occurred around 11 a.m. local time on March 30,12 Newsreported.

The first responding crew began patient care upon arrival, and Rodriguez was considered in critical condition because of how far he fell, Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief Jose Ocadiz toldKAKE.

Rodriguez later died from his injuries.

Midwest Drywall confirmed in a statement to KAKE, 12 News andThe Wichita Eaglethat one of its employees had died following the incident.

"Midwest Drywall is heartbroken to confirm that a member of our team passed away following an incident today at a construction site in downtown Wichita," Midwest Drywall's statement read. "Our prayers and deepest sympathies are with the individual's family, friends, and teammates during this difficult time. The site has been secured, and work has been temporarily suspended while the incident is reviewed."

Rodriguez is survived by his wife, Rosemary, and their three children, ages 9, 8 and 6. In a postshared to Facebook, the nonprofit League 42 described him as a "hard worker and devoted family man," noting that all three of his children play baseball for the organization.

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"We offer our deepest condolences to David's family and friends," the group said in part.

AGoFundMe campaigncreated on behalf of Rodriguez's family describes him as "one of the hardest workers" who "lived to serve his friends and family."

"I will always remember David as genuine, kind, and funny, he always was making his friends laugh and was definitely the life of the party, he always lit up every room he walked into," the fundraiser reads.

The campaign has raised over $27,000 of its $40,000 goal so far. It aims to help cover funeral and living expenses for his family as they grieve.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is investigating Rodriguez's death, 12 News reported.

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