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NEW DELHI, June 2, 2023 (AFP) – The death toll from a multiple train collision in eastern India has risen to at least 207 people, with more than 850 others injured and more feared trapped, officials said early Saturday. “We have already counted 207 dead and the toll will still go up further,” Sudhanshu Sarangi, director general of Odisha Fire Services, told AFP from the accident site. “The rescue work is still going at the […]
BOGOTÁ, May 29, 2023 (AFP) — Four Indigenous children lost in the Colombian Amazon since a plane crash almost a month ago are believed to still be alive, the military said as the search continued Monday in treacherous terrain. The children — who were aged 13, 9, 4 and 11 months when they went missing — have wandered in the jungle since a light aircraft crash in Colombia’s southeast on May 1 claimed the lives […]
SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2023 (AFP) — A passenger opened an emergency exit on an Asiana Airlines flight as it was preparing to land Friday, the carrier told AFP, adding that the plane landed safely but several people were hospitalized. The Airbus A321-200 was carrying nearly 200 passengers as it approached the runway at Daegu International Airport, about 240 kilometers (149 miles) southeast of Seoul, on a domestic flight. When the plane was still […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 24, 2023 (AFP) — Sri Lanka’s navy said Wednesday it had located 14 bodies inside a Chinese fishing boat that had capsized last week with 39 crew on board. The discovery came a day after a preliminary Chinese government probe concluded there were no survivors. The Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028 overturned on May 16, with 17 Chinese, 17 Indonesians and five Filipinos on board within Australia’s vast search-and-rescue region, 5,000 […]
ENEVA, May 20, 2023 (AFP) – A tourist plane crashed in a wooded, mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday, killing the three people onboard, police said. The small tourist plane crashed in a steep and forested area near Ponts-De-Martel in the Swiss canton of Neuchatel at around 10:20 am (0820 GMT), regional police said. “The pilot and the two passengers died on site,” the Neuchatel police said in a statement, without providing further details […]
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AFP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday retracted his claim that four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after an airplane crash in the Amazon had been found alive. Writing on Twitter, Petro said he had deleted his tweet from Wednesday night in which he had announced the rescue of the four children, including an 11-month-old baby. “I am sorry for what happened. The military forces and Indigenous communities will […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Two people on the ground died after a Russian-made MiG-21 military aircraft crashed onto a house in India on Monday, police said. “Pilot has been rescued safely. The MiG crashed on a house. Two people have died. Three people have been injured,” police officer Sudhir Chaudhary told AFP after the crash in the western state of Rajasthan. The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed the crash and that the pilot ejected. […]
YANAQUIHUA, Peru (AFP) — At least 27 workers have died in a fire at a gold mine in a remote area of southern Peru, authorities said Sunday, making it one of the worst mining tragedies in the South American country’s recent history. Grief-stricken relatives gathered near the mine looking for news of their loved ones. “Where are you darling, where are you?” cried Marcelina Aguirre Quispe, whose husband was among the victims. “We know there […]
MALAPPURAM, India (AFP) — At least 22 people died when a double-decker tourist boat capsized in India’s southern state of Kerala, officials said Monday. The incident happened late Sunday in Tanur, a coastal town in Kerala’s Malappuram district. Rescue operations were ongoing. Dozens of people searched for survivors in and around the stricken vessel during the night, which was partially submerged. Some used ropes to stabilize the vessel while others were in the water, looking […]
BROWNSVILLE, United States, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – At least seven people were killed Sunday in south Texas and several others injured when a car plowed through a group waiting at a bus stop outside a migrant aid center, police said. Law enforcement said they were treating the incident as an accident for now, though a witness told AFP the driver had yelled insults at the group before accelerating. The gray sport utility vehicle “went […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — At least 18 Mexican tourists died and two dozen were injured when their tourist bus plunged into a ravine in the western state of Nayarit, a local official told AFP on Sunday. The bus, from a private company, was transporting tourists on a 220-kilometer (136-mile) journey from Guadalajara in the neighboring state of Jalisco to the beach destination of Guayabitos in Nayarit when it went off the road, according to […]
PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP) — Eleven people drowned in western Indonesia after a passenger boat carrying dozens overturned, an official said Friday. Rescuers saved 62 people and found the bodies of mostly women and children after the accident off the coast of western Riau province on Thursday afternoon, local search and rescue agency official Kukuh Widodo said in a statement. “The capsized boat carried 74 people. Sixty-two survived the incident, 11 are dead, and one other […]
