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BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AFP) — Heavy rains in northwest Colombia sent a wall of earth crashing onto a winding road, swallowing up a bus and other vehicles and killing 34 people, emergency services said Monday. The landslide Sunday evening prompted a large rescue effort, with dozens of people in hard hats using backhoes and excavators to dig through the earth looking for victims. The National Unit for Disaster Risk Management said the fatalities included eight minors […]
Casamicciola Terme, Italy | AFP) by Martina UCCI, Sonia LOGRE Italy declared a state of emergency on the southern island of Ischia on Sunday after a landslide killed at least seven people and left several others missing. A wave of mud and debris crashed through the small town of Casamicciola Terme on Saturday morning, engulfing at least one house and sweeping cars down to the sea, local media and emergency services said. “The toll […]
Houston, United States | AFP | Six people were killed when a pair of World-War-II-era planes collided in mid-air at a show in Texas and crashed to the ground in a ball of fire, authorities said Sunday. “According to our Dallas County Medical Examiner, there are a total of 6 fatalities from yesterday’s Wings over Dallas air show incident,” Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Sunday on Twitter. The incident at Dallas Executive Airport involved […]
Jakarta, Indonesia | AFP | Indonesian investigators on Thursday blamed mechanical problems and pilot complacency for a deadly plane crash last year that killed all 62 passengers and crew. The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 nosedived 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) into waters off the capital Jakarta just minutes after takeoff on January 9, 2021. In its final report, Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) pointed to several factors that contributed to the crash, starting with mechanical […]
Tanzania | AFP | The death toll from Sunday’s plane crash in Tanzania has jumped to 19, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said, after the Precision Air flight with dozens of passengers aboard plunged into Lake Victoria while approaching the northwestern city of Bukoba. “All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the 19 people who lost lives during this accident,” Majaliwa told a crowd after arriving at Bukoba airport, where the flight had been scheduled to […]
Caracas, Venezuela | AFP | Five members of the Venezuelan military died Sunday when their plane crashed during a training mission, authorities in the South American country said. The C-208B aircraft “fell to the ground” 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the Jose Antonio Paez air base, in Venezuela’s southern Amazonas state, Defense Minister General Vladimir Padrino Lopez said in a statement. “So far, four lifeless bodies have been rescued and the search continues for the […]
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russian police on Saturday detained two people, including the suspected perpetrator, after a fire killed at least 13 people at a bar in the historic city of Kostroma. Russian emergency services told state television that 13 people were killed, denying earlier media reports that 15 people had died. Fire fighters fought through the early hours to extinguish the blaze at the popular Poligon bar in the city, which is around […]
South Tangerang, Indonesia | AFP | Saturday 11/5/2022 – 09:36 UTC+1 | 337 words K-pop band NCT 127 was forced to end their first concert in Indonesia early after 30 people fainted in a crush, police said. Indonesia is still reeling after more than 130 people, including over 40 children, died in a stadium stampede last month — one of the deadliest disasters in football history. Police spokesperson Endra Zulpan said late on Friday that […]
Seoul, South Korea | AFP | South Korea’s prime minister said Wednesday that police must explain failures to respond to multiple emergency calls ahead of a deadly Halloween crowd surge, as investigators raided police stations. At least 156 mostly young people were killed, and scores more injured, in a crush late Saturday at the first post-pandemic Halloween party in Seoul’s popular Itaewon nightlife district. Transcripts of emergency calls obtained by AFP, many made hours […]
by Sam Panthaky Agence France-Presse MORBI, India (AFP) — At least 132 people died in India when a colonial-era pedestrian bridge overloaded with religious revelers collapsed into the river below, police said Monday. Authorities said nearly 500 people were celebrating a festival on and around the nearly 150-year-old suspension bridge in Morbi when supporting cables snapped after dark on Sunday. The structure in the western state of Gujarat crashed into the river, spilling scores of […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — A Korean Air plane slid off the runway while landing at Cebu international airport in the Philippines, causing slight injuries and shutting down the country’s second busiest airport, authorities said Monday. All 173 passengers and crew of Korean Air flight KE631 from Incheon were evacuated safely after the Airbus A330 aircraft overshot the runway on Sunday, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said in a report. Minor injuries were […]
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Two pilots were killed after a Russian jet conducting a test flight crashed Sunday into a two-storey building in the city of Irkutsk in southern Siberia, the regional governor said. The incident comes days after a military jet crashed into a block of flats in the Russian town of Yeysk, killing more than a dozen people, including children. “A Su category plane hit a two-storey building in Irkutsk on Przhevalskogo […]
