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KEP, Cambodia (AFP) — The search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Cambodia drew to a close Sunday with the final death toll at 36 — the latest tragedy in a string of deadly construction accidents. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, said 23 people had been pulled alive from the rubble of the seven-storey hotel, which crumpled to the ground in seaside Kep on Friday afternoon. On Sunday rescuers also […]
(Eagle News)–At least two people were killed and one was hurt after a portion of a budget hotel in Manila collapsed on Monday, Sept. 23. The bodies of construction workers Melo Ison and Jerome Fabello were recovered separately hours after a part of the Sogo hotel on Mabini St., Malate collapsed around 9:30 a.m. Edson Ison, for his part, managed to jump as the building was collapsing. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — Seven children died and others were injured when their classroom collapsed on Monday morning in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, medics said. “Seven pupils dead, several injured after a classroom collapsed at Previous Talent Academy in Dagoretti,” St John Ambulance — whose rescuers were involved in the search and rescue — wrote on Twitter. Hundreds of angry residents of Dagoretti — a poor area where many live in makeshift houses — swarmed […]
(Eagle News)–At least one person was hurt after a portion of a budget hotel in Manila collapsed on Monday, Sept. 23. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno went to the site of the Sogo Hotel in Malate which had been undergoing demolition after the collapse past 9 a.m. Two workers who were on duty reportedly remain unaccounted for. One worker who sustained minor injuries was rushed to the hospital. “Basta kami, ang focus muna maisalba yung mga […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — A train plunged into a canal when the bridge it was travelling across gave way, killing four people and injuring 100 more in Bangladesh on Monday. Officials said part of the bridge collapsed as the express train went over, sending five cars crashing to the ground, with one of them landing in the water. Scores of people were trapped in the accident at Kalaura, 300 kilometres (185 miles) from Dhaka. Local […]
by Suy SE SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AFP) — The retrieval of bodies from a building collapse in Cambodia continued Monday, as the death toll rose to 24 with no further survivors expected to be found under the debris of the seven-storey Chinese-owned construction site. Workers clawed back the rubble overnight as a grim-faced Cambodian premier Hun Sen visited the scene of the collapse in Sihanoukville, a beach town undergoing a Chinese investment bonanza. The night was […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — At least ten construction workers were trapped in the rubble of an industrial building that collapsed in Shanghai on Thursday as it was undergoing renovation, according to Chinese media reports. The accident occurred around 11:00 am (0300 GMT) in an area of central Shanghai, with Chinese news outlet The Paper saying at least four people were rescued from the collapsed structure. © Agence France-Presse
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Indian police said Friday they had filed a negligence case against Mumbai’s civic and railway authorities after a footbridge collapsed killing six people and injuring dozens more. The bridge, which was under repair, gave away around 7.30 pm (1400 GMT) on Thursday as rush hour commuters made their way into Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus, the city’s main train station. It was the latest accident to highlight creaking infrastructure in India’s financial capital […]
MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Six people were killed and dozens injured when a footbridge collapsed near Mumbai’s main train station on Thursday, the latest accident to highlight creaking infrastructure in India’s financial capital. The bridge, which was under repair according to multiple Indian media reports, gave way around 7:30 pm (1400 GMT) as rush hour commuters made their way into Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus. Officials from the local disaster management office said six people had died […]
by Emmanuel Akinwotu and Celia Lebur Rescuers on Wednesday recovered eight bodies and rescued 37 people alive from the wreckage of a collapsed four-storey building in the Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos Children had been attending an “illegal school” inside the residential building when the structure collapsed, officials said. “Thirty-seven people were rescued alive and eight were recovered dead,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said in a statement. Earlier officials said dozens […]
A three-storey residential building collapsed Wednesday in a densely-populated part of Lagos, and local media said there could be many casualties, including schoolchildren. The Nigerian news station Channels TV reported that a primary school was located on the top floor of the building, “with pupils feared killed and others trapped.” The collapse occurred in the Itafaji area of Lagos Island. A spokesman for the Nigerian emergency services, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the incident. “I can’t give […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — One person was killed and dozens more were buried in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Indonesia, the country’s disaster agency said Wednesday. Rescuers on the island of Sulawesi scrambled to find survivors in the rubble after the collapse triggered a landslide on Tuesday evening, the agency said. At least one person had been found dead and 15 others were injured in the Bolaang Mongondow region of North Sulawesi, […]
