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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — More than 3.25 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Friday, with more than two million crossing the Polish border. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 3,270,662 people had joined the exodus since the war began on February 24, or another 100,765 since Thursday’s update. “We have seen a general slowdown” in flow since the early days of the conflict, said UNHCR spokesman Matthew […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — With a cinematographer killed and a movie director wounded after US actor Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun during filming, we look at other deadly movie accidents. – ‘The Captive’ – Gun related deaths go back to the dawn of cinema with extra Charles Chandler shot in the head in 1915 while filming the Cecil B. DeMille movie “The Captive”. He died after a bullet was left in a rifle […]
SAN MIGUEL, Zamboanga del Sur (Eagle News) — At least six people, including a two-year-old girl, died and several others were injured after a forward truck slammed into a fence in Zamboanga del Sur on Saturday, Oct. 26. Authorities identified the fatalities in the incident in Barangay Limonan as John Bryant Albaño, 19; Boboy Magallanes Cuesta, 34; Gerelyn Chavez, 2; Liza Albaño Berano, 40; Elizabeth Montañez Magallanes, 48; and Reyan Gabotero Salba, 20. The injured […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Nakahanda ang United Nations (UN) na tumulong sa mga biktima ng bagyong “Vinta” sa Mindanao. Ipinarating ni UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ang kanyang pakikiramay sa libu-libong naapektuhan ng kalamidad. Ayon kay Guterres, hiling niya ang mabilis na pagbangon ng mga biktima mula sa trahedya. Sinaluduhan din ng Secretary General ang mga pagkilos na isinasagawa ng rescue and recovery teams at maging ng mga volunteers sa kabila ng mga […]
SONGYUAN, China (Reuters) – At least five were killed and 89 others were injured in a gas pipeline explosion in northeastern China, state media reported on Wednesday (July 5), the second deadly incident of its kind this week. The blast occurred at 2:45 p.m. (0645 GMT) on Tuesday (July 4) in Songyuan city in Jilin province, state broadcaster CCTV said. It did not name the owner of the pipeline. CCTV-carried mobile phone footage showed black […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) – Rainstorms have triggered floods across central and southern China, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving more than two dozen dead or missing, state media reported Monday. At least eight people were killed and a further nine were unaccounted for in the southern Guangxi region as of Sunday, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities. Thousands of hectares of cropland were inundated and 600 houses collapsed in […]
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 […]
YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) – More than two thousand people in Yokosuka participated in a memorial service held on Tuesday (June 27) for the seven sailors who died when the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship. Participants, who included local residents, United States and Japanese military personnel, lined the streets and saluted a row of buses and cars carrying the family members and shipmates of the seven dead sailors, according to the US Navy. Multiple US […]
PAKISTAN (Reuters) – Death toll has risen to 153 from the oil tanker fire that broke out in the Bahawalpur district of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province Sunday morning, rescuers said. The number of deaths may rise further as about 40 out of the about 100 injured people are in critical conditions, according to an official of local hospital. A total of 75 motorbikes and six vehicles, including a traffic police vehicle, were burnt out in […]
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – An oil tanker crashed and exploded on a road in Pakistan on Sunday (June 25), killing at least 146 people, many of whom were collecting leaking fuel before it ignited, government officials and rescue workers said. The speeding tanker overturned on a sharp bend on a highway on the outskirts of the city of Bahawalpur. The driver lost control when the vehicle blew a tyre, a provincial government spokesman said. Shahabaz […]
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 […]
GUATAPE, Columbia (Reuters) – Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Officials did not disclose the cause of the accident and provided few details. Videos posted on social media showed motorboats coming to the aid of passengers on the upper decks as the boat rocked from side to side. Ninety-nine […]
