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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen people were killed and five were missing off Crimea in the Black Sea on Monday after a fire engulfed gas tankers sailing under the flag of Tanzania, authorities said. “There are 11 bodies,” Alexei Kravchenko, spokesman for Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, told AFP. “Another three people went under water before rescue workers’ eyes.” Those three are most likely dead, he said. The ships, the Kandy and […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Queen Elizabeth II’s 97-year-old husband Prince Philip emerged unscathed after a vehicle he was driving was involved in a traffic accident that injured two people on Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace and police. A palace spokeswoman told AFP that the duke was driving near the monarch’s Sandringham Estate when the crash occurred but declined to confirm that it overturned in the incident. “The Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a […]
(Eagle News) — Namahagi ng tulong ang mga miyembro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo sa mga residenteng nasunugan sa Brgy. Paliwas, Obando, Bulacan. Namahagi ng goody bags ang Iglesia Ni Cristo sa nasa mahigit isandaang residenteng nasunugan sa lugar. Ilan sa ibinahaging tulong ay ang mga pagkain tulad ng bigas at iba pa. Sama-samang namahagi ng tulong ang mga miyembro ng Iglesia Ni Cristo partikular na sa Distrito ng Bulacan. Nagpapasalamat naman ang maraming nabigyan ng […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — A military cargo plane crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran, the army said on Monday, with local media reporting at least 10 people onboard. The Fars news agency, considered close to the military, said there were 16 people onboard and that only the flight engineer had survived. State broadcaster IRIB earlier said there were 10 people on the plane, without confirming any casualties. “A (Boeing) cargo 707 place carrying meat took […]
TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — Twenty-two people were injured, two seriously, when a fire swept through an apartment building in the southwestern French city of Toulouse, the fire service told AFP on Thursday. Part of the four-storey building collapsed and guests from a neighbouring hotel were also evacuated, said fire lieutenant-colonel Sylvain Gergaud. “The fire spread very quickly through the lift shift,” he said. Two firemen were among the casualties. The blaze had been brought under control […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — Two passenger trains collided head on during the morning rush hour in South Africa’s capital city Pretoria Tuesday, killing three people and injuring hundreds, emergency services said. Two critically injured people were airlifted from the scene of the crash in Mountain View, northern Pretoria, spokesman Charles Mabaso told AFP. Another 641 people were hurt, with 11 sustaining critical injuries and 62 suffering “moderate” injuries. “The current fatalities stand at three, […]
MAJURO, Marshall Islands (AFP) — The grounding of a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel in the Marshall Islands is being treated as a “crime scene”, officials in the Pacific Ocean archipelago said Monday. The 308-foot (94-meter) boat, which ran aground last week on a remote northern atoll, was not licensed to be in the country’s waters. “What they were doing in Marshall Islands’ waters is still unanswered,” Chief Secretary Ben Graham said, adding that the government […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — At least 32 people were killed by a landslide in Indonesia on New Year’s Eve, authorities said Monday as they ended a week-long search for missing victims. Rescuers who have been pulling bodies from mountains of mud called off the search with one person still unaccounted for after heavy rains triggered the deadly slides in West Java province. Several others were injured in the December 31 disaster. “The search has wrapped […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The number of confirmed dead from a New Year’s Eve gas explosion that caused a Russian apartment block to partially collapse has risen to 37, officials said Thursday, with four people still missing. Six children were among the dead, the emergency situations ministry said in a statement, while six people had been rescued from the rubble of the building in the Ural mountains city of Magnitogorsk. The explosion tore through the […]
by Michael MAINVILLE Agence France-Presse MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Rescuers hunted for survivors Wednesday in the rubble of a Russian apartment building wrecked by a New Year’s Eve gas explosion, but found only bodies as the number of confirmed dead rose to 28, four of them children. The revised toll left 13 people still missing following the explosion, which destroyed 35 apartments in the Ural mountains city of Magnitogorsk. Braving temperatures as low as minus […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) — Six people were killed Wednesday in a train accident on a bridge connecting two islands in Denmark, rail operator DSB said. “We can confirm that six people are dead,” a duty officer told AFP, as media reports said the roof of a cargo train blew off in heavy winds and hit a passenger train that was travelling in the opposite direction. The accident occurred on the Great Belt Bridge connecting the islands […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen people are confirmed dead from the New Year’s Eve explosion at a high-rise in central Russia, local officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued to pull bodies from the rubble. The local governor’s office said 14 bodies had been found and that 27 people were unaccounted for following the gas explosion in the city of Magnitogorsk, nearly 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) east of Moscow in the Ural mountains. Five people had […]
