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by Ralf ISERMANN Agence France-Presse MUNICH, Germany (AFP) – Up to 18 people were feared killed Monday in one of Germany’s worst road accidents after a tour bus carrying pensioners burst into flames in a collision with a trailer truck, police said. “Thirty passengers were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries. The others are believed to have died in the burning tour bus,” which had been carrying 48 people, police said in […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Rainstorms have triggered floods across central and southern China, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving more than two dozen dead or missing, state media reported Monday. At least eight people were killed and a further nine were unaccounted for in the southern Guangxi region as of Sunday, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities. Thousands of hectares of cropland were inundated and 600 houses collapsed in […]
STAMMBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Thirty-one people were injured, some seriously, when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday (July 3), police said. There were 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash, according to a police Twitter. A police spokesman told broadcaster n-tv that 17 people were unaccounted for and he expected several had died.
PAKISTAN (Reuters) – Death toll has risen to 153 from the oil tanker fire that broke out in the Bahawalpur district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province Sunday morning, rescuers said. The number of deaths may rise further as about 40 out of the about 100 injured people are in critical conditions, according to an official of local hospital. A total of 75 motorbikes and six vehicles, including a traffic police vehicle, were burnt out in […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
GUATAPE, Columbia (Reuters) – Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Officials did not disclose the cause of the accident and provided few details. Videos posted on social media showed motorboats coming to the aid of passengers on the upper decks as the boat rocked from side to side. Ninety-nine […]
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (Reuters) – EU environment ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday (June 19) held a minute of silence for the victims of the forest fire in Portugal that killed at least 62 over the weekend in Pedro Grande, a mountainous area about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Lisbon. More than 1.000 firefighters on Monday were still battling Portugal’s deadliest forest blaze, while public prosecutors opened an investigation into the causes of the fire.
PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal (Reuters) – The full extent of the damage caused by a forest fire that ravaged parts of Portugal was clearly visible on Monday (June 19) as the Spanish airforce released video filmed from a firefighting plane that has been used to dump thousands of litres of water over the area. The video filmed on Sunday (June 18) showed a vast blackened area of fire-damaged terrain. In some areas smoke cover has not […]
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Holiday makers arriving on Sunday (June 18) night at Lisbon’s airport said they were concerned about the situation in Portugal following a forest fire that has killed at least 62 people in the central part of the country. The death toll released by Jorge Gomes, the secretary of state for internal affairs, has gradually climbed from the 19 initially announced late on Saturday. Gomes said most of the victims were caught […]
LISBON, Portugal (Reuters) – Portugal’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Sunday (June 18) addressed the nation following a huge forest fire that had raged for two days killing at least 62 people. De Sousa said the country’s pain had “no measure” and called deadly blaze as a tragedy “without precedent in the history of Portugal’s democracy.” Local residents said they had been left to their own devices and had seen no firefighters for hours […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (Reuters) – A man dressed in a United Parcel Service uniform and armed with an “assault pistol” opened fire at a UPS package sorting hub in San Francisco on Wednesday (June 14), killing three people before fatally shooting himself in the head, police said. The shooter and the victims were all drivers, said Steve Gaut, head of investor relations at UPS. The man opened fire while the workers were gathered for their daily […]
MYANMAR (Reuters) – Twenty-nine more bodies from a crashed Myanmar military plane were found on Thursday in Dawei City. Rescue work started from Wednesday afternoon in Launglon Town located in the southwestern part of Dawei City, south of Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Province. Apart from naval boats, many civilian boats were used to search the missing people. “Debris of the plane have been found in the area, which was 14 miles from us. The waves in the […]
