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OSLO, Norway (AFP) – A wooden bridge collapsed in southern Norway on Monday, sending a car and truck hurtling into a river, police said. The two-lane bridge was inaugurated in 2018 and is 148 metres (485 feet) long and 10 metres wide. It also has a pedestrian sidewalk. “Tretten bridge is reported to have collapsed. A truck and a passenger car are said to have gone into the water,” local police said in a tweet. […]
(Eagle News) — Eleven years after the 2009 Ondoy floods that killed almost 80 people in Marikina, deep floods once again submerged many parts of the city as heavy rains dumped by typhoon Ulysses (Vamco) caused Marikina River to swell and spill over to the streets transforming these into rivers. Waters were so high that people living in houses with more than two storeys had to go to the rooftop or to higher floors, […]
(Eagle News) — The Marikina River water level has reached 21.8 meters as of 9:04 a.m., topping the record water level set in 2009 by Typhoon Ondoy at 21.5 meters. According to the Facebook page of the Marikina local government’s Public Information Office (PIO), the increase in water level within half an hour was already 10 centimeters. Marikina River water level at 7:58 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, stood at 21.6 meters, already past […]
(Eagle News)–Six men were killed after a house in Quezon City collapsed on Friday, Dec. 14. Authorities said Nilo Mangoso, Donald Conde, Benito Añora, Ryan Regueros, Johnny Gabin and Reymark Diestro were having a drinking session on the rooftop of the house in Barangay Bahay Toro when the incident took place. The house was reportedly beside a river. Authorities are still investigating the incident.
(Eagle News)–The body of a Filipina was found floating in a river in Sabah recently, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, Dec. 8. In a statement, the DFA said authorities were looking at the possibility the case of Madelyn Bernardo Asuncion, who was discovered by a plantation worker in Pengalan River in Melalap on Nov. 28, was a homicide. The DFA said the embassy in Malaysia is waiting for the official report of the incident […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A scuffle between a driver and a passenger caused their bus to plunge from a bridge into a river in southwest China, killing at least 13 people, police said Friday. Dramatic video footage of Sunday’s crash shows a woman striking the driver over the head with an object, prompting him to hit back with one hand. The woman then lashes out once more. The driver then suddenly yanks the wheel […]
(Eagle News)–Alarm Level 1 has been hoisted over Marikina River. The Marikina City Rescue 161 said water levels have reached 15 meters as of 7:07 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. This means residents near the river should prepare to evacuate. Rains continue to pound parts of the country as “Ompong” heads toward Apayao and Ilocos Norte.
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — Rescuers freed two men from a truck stranded in the middle of a flooded river Sunday afternoon in Chongqing Municipality of southwest China. In Fengjie County, water level increased in the rivers due to continuous heavy rainstorm. The truck got stranded when the driver tried to cross the raging river without realizing the risk involved. When firefighters arrived, they found the truck stranded one kilometer away from the shoreline, while the […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — The death toll from a ferry disaster on a river in central Myanmar four days ago has risen to nearly 50, officials said Wednesday, with most of the deceased identified as women and at least two dozen others still missing. The overloaded vessel, whose passengers included scores of teachers and university students, went down early Saturday while it was travelling on the Chindwin River in Sagaing region. Some 150 people were […]
by Marco SIBAJA SIQUIRRES, Costa Rica (AFP) — A giant cement structure rises from the river in the middle of Costa Rica’s Caribbean tropical forest, and its turbines spin, each rotation putting the Central American country closer to its goal of relying only on renewable energy. The $1.4-billion Reventazon Hydroelectric Project is the second-biggest infrastructure work in Central America after the just-finished expansion of the Panama Canal, and following six years of construction, it’s nearly […]
