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by Gabriela Coutino with Jean Arce in Mexico City Agence France Presse TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Mexico (AFP) — At least 53 migrants crammed into a truck traveling at high speed were killed Thursday in Mexico after the vehicle overturned in the southern state of Chiapas, a major transit point for those trying to reach the United States. Thousands of people attempt the long and hugely dangerous journey, often seeking a life free of violence and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A child injured when a car plowed into a parade in the US state of Wisconsin has died, taking the toll from the tragedy to six, a local prosecutor said Tuesday as the suspect appeared in court. Darrell Brooks, 39, was charged with five counts of intentional homicide, and now faces a sixth murder charge, prosecutor Susan Opper said. Brooks allegedly steered his red SUV into marching musicians, dancers and […]
HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — A private plane crashed when attempting to take off Tuesday in Texas, with all 21 passengers and crew on board scrambling to safety before the aircraft burst into flames. Television images showed fire fighters spraying water onto the burning remains of the plane, which had plowed through a fence and come to a halt across a track in a field, surrounded by trees and bushes. The fuselage was reduced to […]
by Ferdinandh Cabrera Agence France Presse COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) — At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country’s south, officials said. Nearly a hundred people, most of them recent army graduates, were on the C-130 Hercules transport plane which was trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province around midday. Some of […]
DAHARKI, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train ploughed into another express that had derailed just minutes earlier, officials said. Several people were still trapped in the mangled wreckage near Daharki, in a remote part of rural Sindh province, which took rescue workers with specialist equipment hours to reach. The double accident happened around 3.30am (2230 GMT) when most of the 1,200 passengers […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 30 people were killed and dozens injured Monday in a train crash in southern Pakistan, police said. A spokesperson for Pakistan Railways told AFP a train heading from Karachi to Sargodha, derailed on to a track carrying service from Rawalpindi in the opposite direction. “Several people have been killed and many others trapped inside,” the official said. Umar Tufail, a senior police officer at Daharki confirmed the death toll […]
by Andrew MARSZAL Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries to both legs as his car flew off the road and flipped several times Tuesday near Los Angeles in a crash he was “very fortunate” to survive, law enforcement officials who found the US golf legend said. Woods did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the early-morning incident, and underwent surgery […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said he would be conferring the Order of Lapu-Lapu on members of Philippine security forces who died in a helicopter crash in Bukidnon over the weekend, as he expressed his deepest condolences to their families. Those who died in the crash on Saturday, Jan. 16, were on a Philippine Air Force UH-1H helicopter, which was on a supply mission from Malaybalay City, Bukidnon to a patrol base. All […]
by Dessy SAGITA Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian divers returned Tuesday to a wreckage-littered seabed off Jakarta in their hunt for the black boxes that will likely be key to unlocking the mystery of why a passenger jet carrying 62 people fell from the sky. Some 3,600 personnel are taking part in the recovery effort, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters flying over small islands off the capital’s coast. Underwater […]
by Haeril HALIM Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The crew of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed off Jakarta at the weekend with 62 people aboard did not declare an emergency or report technical problems before it suddenly plunged into the sea, an investigator said Monday. Authorities have so far been unable to explain why the 26-year-old plane crashed just four minutes after takeoff, but say they’ve pinpointed the location of the […]
by Haeril HALIM Agence France Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Indonesian divers searched waters off Jakarta Monday in a hunt for black boxes from the passenger jet with 62 people aboard that crashed at the weekend, as investigators took up the grim task of identifying victims’ mangled remains. Finding the boxes — cockpit voice and flight data recorders — could offer crucial clues as to why the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged some 10,000 […]
(Eagle News) — The pilot-in-command of the Bell 429 which crashed in San Pedro, Laguna on March 5, 2020, and which caused severe injuries to two police general leading to the death of Police Major Gen. Joevic Ramos has been charged administratively for his failure to conduct proper safety and risk assessmnet procedures before take-off. This was after the results of the probe of the Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Bell 429 which had […]
