Eight people died and dozens were injured in the West African state of Guinea on Tuesday when a rubbish dump on the outskirts of the capital collapsed.
Five bodies, including those of two children, were taken to a morgue in Conakry, senior police official Boubacar Kasse said. An AFP reporter on the scene later saw three other bodies that wereRead more
Eight Palestinian workers survived on Wednesday after a smuggling tunnel collapsed beneath the southern Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt, sources told WAFA.
Sources said civil defense teams managed to pull out the eight workers who were trapped under rubble after the tunnel collapsed while they were inside it.
To be noted, dozens of Palestinians who work in smuggling tunnels haveRead more
Rescuers were searching on Sunday for a family of six feared trapped in a building that collapsed and killed two people on the outskirts of the Indian city of Mumbai, police said.
Emergency workers were using mechanical diggers and other equipment to remove slabs of concrete and mud, but police said there was little hope of finding the family includingRead more
At least two persons have been killed and six others feared trapped under the debris after a two-storeyed building collapsed near Mumbai Sunday morning, a senior police official said.
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At least five worshipers were killed and several others injured on Friday when a metal roof at a mosque collapsed in Pakistani City Karachi.
Local Police said that the incident took place while worshipers crowded to perform Friday Prayer. Medical sources confirmed the death of five worshipers and the injury of about 15 others who were taken to aRead more
At least five worshipers died and several others injured on Friday when a makeshift metal roof at a mosque collapsed in North Nazimabad area of the city, according to Geo TV.
The temporary metal awning put in place to protect worshipers from the sun fell on the courtyard area following prayers at the Masjid-i-Usman near Landi Kotal Chowrangi, police andRead more
Four workers were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday after a subway construction site collapsed near the South Korean capital Seoul.
The victims were doing welding work 15 meters underground when an explosion, possibly of an oxygen tank, caused the surrounding structure to cave in on top of them.
Four workers were killed, while the injured, someRead more
Death toll from a residential building which collapsed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi last Friday has risen to 22 after two more bodies were retrieved on Monday.
Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre director Colonel Nathan Kigotho said 135 people have so far been rescued from the six-story building, which collapsed due to heavy rains which pounded Nairobi on Friday evening.
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Indian police said Friday they have detained five staff at the company building a flyover that collapsed in Kolkata, killing at least 25 people, as hopes of finding more survivors faded.
Emergency workers using specialist equipment have pulled nearly 100 survivors from under the huge concrete slabs and metal girders that fell onto a busy street in the eastern city on Thursday, crushing carsRead more
Indian police said Friday they have detained five staff at the company building a flyover that collapsed, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens.
"Five people of the Hyderabad company have been detained for questioning," said Kolkata deputy commissioner of police Akhilesh Chaturvedi, referring to the contractor IVRCL.
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