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by Farid Farid CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — A train accident north of Cairo on Sunday left 11 people dead and 98 others injured, Egypt’s health ministry said, in the latest rail calamity to hit the North African country. The ministry, in an updated toll, said that “11 people were killed and 98 others injured in a train accident in Toukh”, a small farming town in the fertile Nile Delta about 40 kilometres (25 miles) outside […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — One person died and 12 were missing after a commercial lift vessel capsized in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, the US Coast Guard said Wednesday. Coast Guard ships and a fleet of volunteer vessels were deployed to search for survivors after the Seacor Power capsized Tuesday in an unexpectedly strong storm near Port Fourchon, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of New Orleans. Coast Guard Captain […]
NARAYANGANJ, Bangladesh (AFP) — The death toll from a ferry disaster in Bangladesh jumped to 26 on Monday after rescuers pulled the vessel out of the water and found more bodies inside, officials said Monday. The sunken ferry was extracted from the heavily polluted Shitalakshya River in the central district of Narayanganj as hundreds of onlookers and relatives of the missing watched from the shore. “We have found 21 bodies today after the ship was […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — A railway maintenance worker whose truck rolled onto the tracks and sparked Taiwan’s worst train disaster in recent decades made a tearful apology on Sunday, saying he would cooperate with investigators. At least 50 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in Friday’s crash, which sent a packed eight-car train hurtling into the sides of a narrow tunnel near the eastern coastal city of Hualien. Investigators say the Taroko […]
by Sean Chang, with Amber Wang in Taipei HUALIEN, Taiwan (AFP) — Salvage teams began removing mangled train carriages on Saturday after Taiwan’s worst rail disaster in decades killed at least 50 people, as flags flew half-mast across an island plunged into mourning. Officials said Friday’s devastating collision was caused when a parked railway maintenance vehicle slipped down an embankment and onto the tracks. A train packed with as many as 500 people at the […]
by Amber WANG TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Dozens of people were killed on Friday when a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in eastern Taiwan, the island’s worst railway accident in decades. Taiwan’s National Fire Agency said at least 48 people were confirmed dead with 66 others sent to hospital. Officials said the accident could have been caused by a maintenance vehicle sliding down an embankment and striking the train before it entered the tunnel […]
by Amber WANG TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Dozens of people were killed on Friday when a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in eastern Taiwan, the island’s worst railway accident in decades. Taiwan’s National Fire Agency said at least 41 people were confirmed dead with more than 60 sent to hospital. Two people were still trapped in the twisted carriages inside the tunnel on Friday afternoon, the agency added. Officials said the accident could […]
by Amber WANG TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Dozens of people are feared dead after a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in eastern Taiwan on Friday at the start of a long holiday weekend, with rescuers still scrambling to reach others trapped inside. President Tsai Ing-wen’s office said she had ordered hospitals to prepare for a mass casualty event. “The top priority now is to rescue the stranded people,” it said in a statement. The […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Rescuers were working against the clock to rescue 11 people trapped in a flooded illegal goldmine since last week, Colombian authorities said Monday. The group has been trapped since last Friday in a 17-meter (55-foot) deep shaft flooded in a heavy downpour. According to the National Mining Agency (ANM), rescuers were using electric pumps to remove water from the mine. “Eleven people are still missing,” Luis Velasquez, governor of the northwestern […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — A bus carrying dozens of pilgrims plunged down a steep ravine on Indonesia’s Java island, killing at least 27 people including junior high school students, authorities said Thursday. Rescuers worked through the night using cranes to pluck injured survivors from the wreckage after the fatal crash late Wednesday in West Java’s Sumedang district. The bus carrying 66 passengers was travelling on a winding, poorly lit road when it plunged down the […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — At least seven students died and five were seriously injured when they fell from the fourth floor of a university building in Bolivia after a metal railing gave way Tuesday, the government said. Footage of the incident shows students crammed into a narrow passageway trying to enter an assembly hall. A metal railing can be seen giving way under the weight of the pushing and shoving students, with several plummeting […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — At least 15 people were killed in southern California on Tuesday when a vehicle packed with people collided with a large truck, officials said. “We believe there was 27 passengers in this SUV that struck a semi-truck full of gravel,” said Judy Cruz, an official from El Centro regional medical center. She said 14 people died at the scene of the crash near El Centro, California, which is close […]
