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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Emergency workers pulled the last victim’s body Wednesday from the rubble of Mexico’s September 19 earthquake, officials said, as the country turned to rebuilding after a disaster that claimed more than 360 lives. After 15 days of searching, workers found the final victim’s body beneath the mountain of rubble left by the collapse of a seven-story office building in Mexico City’s hard-hit Roma district, tweeted the interior ministry official overseeing […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A pair of devastating earthquakes and Tropical Storm Lidia in Mexico killed more than 400 people and toppled 150,000 houses and other buildings and structures, authorities said Wednesday. The damage included almost 12,000 ruined schools to the tune of 717 million dollars. And that was in addition to 1,500 national monument structures worth about $440 million dollars. All three disasters hit in September. “The raw, preliminary numbers cross over from homes, to monuments, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Hurricane Irma killed 72 people in Florida when it battered the southern state on September 10, according to an updated death toll that includes figures from individual counties. Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) spokesman Alberto Moscoso confirmed an official toll of 54 to AFP Tuesday. But this figure does not include eight known victims in the Florida Keys, or 10 elderly victims who died in a nursing home north […]
MEXICO CiTY, Mexico (AFP) — A strong 6.2-magnitude quake shook Mexico on Saturday, causing panic in traumatized Mexico City, where rescuers trying to free people trapped from this week’s earlier earthquake had to suspend work. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the new quake, which was smaller and with its epicenter farther to the south than Tuesday’s devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake that killed nearly 300 people. However it sparked concern that it […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The bodies of eight foreigners have been recovered from the rubble of the quake that struck Mexico City, officials said Friday. The remains were those of four Taiwanese women, a Korean man, a Spanish man, a Panamanian woman and an Argentine man, Mexico’s high court said in a statement citing information from the forensic institute.
JOJUTLA MUNICIPALITY, Mexico (CCTV) — Tuesday’s 7.1-magnitude quake left at least 17 dead in Mexico’s Jojutla Town, while knocked down 185 houses to debris, damaging 360 more and bringing down 60 walls. Since the bridge connecting Jojutla to the outside world was equally damaged, carrying out rescue efforts posed a huge challenge and relief supplies were being transferred through a detour. Jojutla, one of worst hit towns in Mexico, suffered power and internet outage too […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The death toll from a major earthquake that struck southern Mexico earlier this week has risen to 90, authorities reported Sunday, after 25 new deaths were confirmed in Oaxaca state. “The number of people who lost their lives amounts to 90, of whom 71 were in Oaxaca, 15 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco,” the interior ministry said in a statement. Mexican seismological authorities measured Thursday night’s quake at magnitude […]
SHAOYANG CITY, China (CCTV) — Heavy rainfall in China’s Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has claimed a total of nine lives and one missing, local authorities said Monday. The rainwater, which accumulated in Hunan’s Shaoyang City and Guangxi’s Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, has turned the two places into Asian Venice, a well-known Italian city, while locals had to paddle boats to commute between places. Continuous rainfall in central China’s Hunan since last Friday […]
BIRATNAGAR, Nepal (Reuters) — Torrential rain battered Nepal on Sunday (August 13), causing widespread flooding and landslides and raising the death toll from three days of severe weather to at least 49 people, according to officials. The toll could go higher as three dozen people were reported missing and another 17 were injured. Biratnagar airport was flooded on Saturday (August 12) and people were seen evacuating heavily flooded areas of eastern Nepal such as Siraha […]
Jiuzhaigou County, China (CCTV) — Death toll from a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck a remote area in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Tuesday night has risen to 20. As of 12:00 Thursday, the quake has also left 431 others injured, according to the information office of the provincial government. The quake jolted Jiuzhaigou County, a popular tourist destination, at 21:19 Tuesday at a depth of 20 km. Search and rescue operations are under way, the office […]
(Eagle News) — The death toll in Marawi City has reached more than 600, as the fighting enters its 70th day, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) told during the Mindanao Hour press briefing in Malacañang on Monday, July 31. In the latest report of the AFP, as of July 30, the fighting already claimed the lives of 491 on the part of the Maute group. On the side of the government forces, 114 […]
Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) — The death toll in western Japan’s flooding disaster has risen to at least six, a government spokesman said on Friday (July 7), while thousands of rescuers, some in helicopters, searched for survivors. Parts of Fukuoka, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, were hit by 593 mm (23 inches) of rain in the 48 hours to 9:00 a.m. Friday (midnight GMT), well over the rainfall of a usual July, the meteorological agency said. […]
