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SICHUAN, China (CCTV) — A massive landslide in southwest China blocked traffic on National Highway 213 for three hours on Sunday. No death or injury has been reported, according to the emergency office of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The landslide, occurring at 15:45, caused about 20,000 cubic meters of mud to fall onto the highway, cutting off traffic on the highway’s Maoxian County section. An emergency team, including […]
ORMOC CITY, Leyte (Eagle News) – Pinayuhan na ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ang ilang mga residente sa Leyte na lumikas na agad. Ito ay dahil sa ang ilang lugar sa Leyte ay nakaranas ng landslide matapos ang pagtama ng magnitude-6.5 na lindol, halos dalawang linggo na ang nakalilipas. Ayon kay DENR Region 8 Director Leonardo Sibbaluca, nananatiling mataas ang banta ng pagguho ng lupa sa mga naturang lugar dahil sa kalidad […]
ORMOC CITY, Leyte (Eagle News) – Naglabas na ang City Social Welfare Development Office (CSWDO) ng Ormoc City ng listahan ng mga barangay na masyadong naapektuhan ng nangyaring lindol noong Huwebes, Hulyo 6. Ito ay ipinaskil sa Central Command Post at Ormoc City Hall. Ayon sa CSWDO ang Top 5 Most Affected Barangays ay ang mga sumusunod: Tongonan Milagro Cabintan Lake Danao Cabaon-an Ayon naman sa Ormoc City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC), sa […]
CHINA (Reuters) – More than 2,500 professional rescuers and 25 sniffer dogs are working against time to search for 93 persons still missing in a landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. One-year-old sniffer dog named Gege is one of those. This is the dog’s first time to participate in a rescue operation. Once he finds possible signs of life, Gege, the dog’s handlers said, would bark at rescuers. Sniffer dogs like Gege are working for […]
SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Rescue workers in southwestern China pulled bodies out of piles of rock and mud on Sunday (June 25) as they searched for 93 people missing after a landslide buried a mountain village, with some residents giving up hope of finding survivors. A huge landslide crashed down on the village of Xinmo, in mountainous Sichuan province, as dawn broke on Saturday. Authorities at the scene said on Sunday that 10 bodies […]
KHAGRACHARI, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Landslides triggered by heavy rain buried hillside homes in Bangladesh on Tuesday (June 13) killing at least 43 people and injuring several, officials said. The landslides hit hilly districts in the southeast, killing 10 people in one village, eight in another and seven in a third, said police official Rafiq Ullah. The death toll could go up as rescuers were searching for bodies, he added. Video filmed in hilly Khagrachari in […]
CHINA (Reuters) – Downpours swept across much of central and east China on Monday causing flash floods and leading to subsequent disasters such as landslides across many parts. The rain-triggered floods on Monday washed away the road base and caused a collapse of several sections of a local main road in the county of Yongjia of east China’s Zhejiang Province. A bridge section was closed to motorists after its piers were severely damaged in the […]
PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan (Eagle News) – Tatlo ang patay habang isa naman ang sugatan matapos matabunan ang kanilang bahay ng gumuhong lupa at malaking puno sa Palawan nitong Lunes. Kinilala ang mga nasawi sa landslide sa Barangay Liwanag pasado alas diyes ng gabi na sina Marites Vedor, at ang mga anak nitong si Ashley, may isang taong gulang, at Mira, may dalawang taong gulang. Ang padre de pamilya naman ay kritikal ang kalagayan ngayon sa pagamutan. Dinala […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A massive rockslide has buried a stretch of California’s iconic seaside Highway 1 which had already been hit by a number of road closures caused by severe winter storms, state transportation officials said Tuesday. The slide on one of America’s most picturesque highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabited area known as Mud Creek. The road in that section of the highway had already been […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese courts have sentenced 19 government officials and one business leader to prison for up to 20 years for their roles in a landslide which killed more than 70 people. The disaster occurred in Shenzhen, a southern boom town bordering Hong Kong, at the end of 2015 when soil illegally piled some 160 meters (500 feet) high at an old quarry site turned to mud during heavy rains. Three local courts […]
by Chris STEIN Agence France Presse ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) — At least 46 people died and dozens more were hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump outside Addis Ababa, a tragedy squatters living there blamed on a biogas plant being built nearby. Saturday’s landslide flattened dozens of homes of people living in the Koshe dump when part of the largest pile of rubbish collapsed, an AFP journalist said. Dagmawit Moges, head […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Twelve Indonesians, including three children, have been killed on the holiday island of Bali after landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed several villages, an official said Friday. Several houses were also buried and badly damaged in the incident, which took place overnight from Thursday to Friday in Kintamani district in central Bali. “The extreme rain that occurred all day on Thursday has triggered landslides in three villages and 12 people have […]
