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DEHRADUN, India, Nov 13, 2023 (AFP) – Rescue workers in northern India said Monday they had made contact with 40 workers trapped for over 24 hours after the road tunnel they were building collapsed. “All the 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are safe,” Karamveer Singh Bhandari, a senior commander in the National Disaster Response Force told AFP, from the site in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. “We sent them water and food.” The collapse […]
HUALIEN, Taiwan (AFP) — After hours of painstaking search efforts, Taiwanese rescue workers pulled two more bodies from the flattened remains of a hotel Friday, bringing the death toll from a deadly 6.4-magnitude quake to 12. Scores of emergency responders combed the rubble of the lower floors of the 12-storey Yun Tsui apartment block, which housed the Beauty Stay Hotel and had pancaked during the quake, leaving the building leaning at a 50-degree angle […]
(Eagle News) — Government and other rescue workers, including those from the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s SCAN International, joined together to help thousands of people affected by severe tropical storm Vinta (international name Tembin) which had killed more than a hundred people, with others still declared missing. As of Saturday, December 23, the latest death tool reached 133 in southern Philippines, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said. The […]
