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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 […]
(Eagle News) — Umakyat na sa 122 ang bilang ng nasawi dahil sa pananalasa ng Bagyong Usman. Ayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, sa naturang bilang 105 ang namatay sa Bicol Region kung saan 57 ay mula sa camarines sur na itinuturing na pinakamalalang nasalanta ng bagyo. Samantala, 18 ang naitalang nasawi sa albay, 15 sa Camarines Norte, walo sa Sorsogon at pito sa Masbate. Sa Northern Samar ay 13 ang naitalang […]
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 […]
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 […]
(Eagle News) — Patuloy pa ring tumataas ang bilang ng mga nasawi dahil sa epekto ng bagyong Usman. Ayon sa National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), ang bilang ng mga napaulat na nasawi sa Mimaropa, Bicol Region, at Eastern Visayas ay pumalo na sa 78, 15 naman sa kanila ang injured at 21 ang patuloy na nawawala pa rin. Bukod dito, apektado rin ang daloy ng trapiko sa ilang apektadong lugar dahil 95 […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The fire that has ravaged northern California is now almost completely contained, authorities said Thursday as the death toll rose to 84. Rain fell in the first measurable amounts in months in the drought-stricken area and this helped put out hot spots and smoldering fires, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. It said the so-called Camp Fire is now 95 percent contained. The number of people […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The death toll from the wildfire in northern California rose to 83 Wednesday after crews found two more sets of remains in burned-out buildings, officials said. The number of people listed as unaccounted for in the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history dropped from 870 to 563. This number has been fluctuating wildly amid the confusion of the search for bodies in the town of Paradise, which […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The death toll from the devastating wildfire in northern California rose to 81 Tuesday with the discovery of two more sets of remains, officials said. The number of people listed as unaccounted for in the deadliest and most destructive fire in state history jumped up by nearly 200 to 870. This number has been fluctuating a lot in recent days amid the confusion of the search for bodies in […]
by Javier TOVAR Agence France-Presse PARADISE, United States (AFP) — The toll in the deadliest wildfires in recent California history climbed to 59 on Wednesday as authorities released a list of 130 people still missing. Most of those unaccounted for are from the Butte County town of Paradise, in northern California, which was virtually erased from the map by the so-called “Camp Fire” blaze that erupted last week. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told journalists […]
TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — At least six people died after heavy storms swamped parts of southwestern France, flooding rivers and cutting roads, officials said Monday. The Aude department, which includes the fortress city of Carcassonne, was particularly badly hit. One woman was swept to her death by rising waters in the Aude village of Villardonnel, and at least four died overnight in Villegailhenc, local authorities said. A sixth person also died in the department, authorities […]
PANAMA CITY, United States (AFP) — The death toll from Hurricane Michael, which slammed into the Florida coast as a Category 4 storm, has risen to at least six in three states, US officials said on Thursday. The Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office confirmed four fatalities in the Florida Panhandle county, which is west of the state capital Tallahassee. In Georgia, where the storm moved after making landfall Wednesday in the Panhandle, an 11-year-old girl also […]
PALU, Indonesia (AFP) — Nearly 2000 bodies have been recovered from Palu since an earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian city, an official said Monday, warning the number would rise with thousands still missing. The death toll from the twin disaster on Sulawesi island that erased whole suburbs in Palu has reached 1,944, said local military spokesman M. Thohir. “That number is expected to rise, because we have not received orders to halt the search […]
