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by Alexandre Grosbois and Moises Avila Agence France Presse HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba observed a weekend of national mourning for victims of its worst crash in nearly three decades that killed 110 passengers and crew. An investigation has been launched into Friday’s crash of the nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737-200 leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company. Three women pulled alive from the mangled wreckage and in hospital in critical […]
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — A Cuban airliner with more than 100 people on board crashed Friday after takeoff from Havana with many feared dead. Here is a list of the worst air accidents in Latin America over the past three decades: – November 28, 2016, COLOMBIA – A British Aerospace 146 belonging to Bolivian charter company LaMia crashed into the Colombian mountains at 3,300 meters (10,827 feet) altitude. It claimed the lives of 71 people, […]
by Alexandre Grosbois Agence France Presse HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — A Cuban state airways plane with more than 100 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Havana Friday, leaving a mass of twisted and smoldering fuselage, as the country’s president warned many people were feared dead. Mexico’s government said the plane carried a Mexican crew. Cuban state media reported that three people had been pulled alive from the mangled wreckage and were […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — At least 27 people died when their homes were swept away after a dam burst in southern Kenya following heavy rains, police said Thursday. The incident in Solai, near the Rift Valley city of Nakuru, occurred Wednesday evening, regional police chief Gideon Kibunjah told AFP by telephone, adding that 36 people had been hospitalized. “The search and rescue exercise is ongoing and more bodies have been retrieved. The death toll is now […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — An earthquake that hit a South African gold mine claimed a total of seven lives, its owner said Saturday, after rescue operations were completed at the site outside Johannesburg. The epicenter of the 2.2-magnitude quake was close to where the miners were working on Thursday, and 13 employees were trapped about three kilometers (two miles) below the surface. “The last three employees who were recovered (had) passed away from […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said. The C-130 “Hercules” cargo plane from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard crashed around 11:30 am (1530 GMT) near the Savannah airport. Footage of the crash showed it falling from the sky then exploding in a fireball. Officials at first said five […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 13 children were killed and five critically injured Thursday after a train smashed into a small school bus in northern India, an official said. The students, all aged below 10, were being driven to class in Uttar Pradesh state when a passenger train collided with their vehicle at an unmanned railway crossing. The impact of the crash lifted the bus several meter into the air, killing 10 […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — At least 18 people were killed when a truck packed with laborers overturned on a winding highway in western India on Tuesday, police said. The truck hit a roadside barrier outside Khandala, a hill resort and popular tourist destination 80 kilometers (50 miles) inland from Mumbai. “The truck was definitely speeding and flipped over two, three times and crashed into a highway barrier. We have recovered 18 bodies so far,” […]
SHIMLA, India (AFP) — At least 30 people, including 27 children, were killed Monday in northern India when a school bus plunged into a deep ravine in the Himalayan foothills, police said. The bus carrying young students home in Himachal Pradesh state flew off a cliff near Nurpur, about 325 kilometers (200 miles) from the state capital Shimla, and crashed into a valley. “The bus rolled into 200 feet (60 meters) deep gorge, killing 27 […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — A bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided with a truck on a rural highway in Canada’s western Saskatchewan province, killing at least 14 people, local media said Saturday citing police. The Saskatoon Star Phoenix said 14 more were injured — including three critically — in Friday’s accident involving the Humboldt Broncos team bus. The bus was carrying 28 people including the driver. Police said the crash took place […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) — Twenty Myanmar migrant workers died early Friday as fire tore through a bus taking them from a Thai border town to Bangkok, officials said. It was not immediately clear how the blaze started on the bus — one of four travelling together to the Thai capital. But television footage showed a bus destroyed by fire which trapped many passengers inside. “The death toll is now 20, with three people injured,” […]
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AFP) — Mozambique police said on Monday that a pick-up truck ploughed into a crowd of party-goers at the weekend killing 23 people, many of whom were teenagers. The speeding vehicle ignored orders from traffic police, hit an obstacle and veered into the local carnival in the working-class Luis Cabral neighbourhood of Maputo in the early hours of Sunday morning. “The driver was speeding when he did not obey the signal from […]
