11 dead as boat capsizes in Ivory Coast lake

Eleven people perished and one was missing after a boat capsized in a lake in central Ivory Coast, the captain said on Friday. The accident occurred on Wednesday in Lake Kossou, near the village...

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Families still in pain over killings of kin

Mary Muthoni is still in deep anguish over the fate of her 28-year-old son who went missing in the operation to recover stolen cattle in Suguta valley. Tired of waiting for answers from the police...

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22 die, 69 missing as Atlantic boat sinks

AT least 22 people died and 69 are missing after their overloaded boat sank off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, rescue workers said. A total of 97 people were aboard the boat en route from the Atlantic...

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7 killed in Kollam van-bus collision

In a head-on collision between a van and a fast passenger bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation at Nilamel on Friday morning, seven persons were killed. Seventeen of those critically injured...

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Fire erupts in hutment: 6 die

Fire erupted in the huts resulting six children dead in the Goath Umar Manjothi area of the city on Thursday. Sources said that late night fire stretched in the hutment. At least six children succumbed...

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Cyborg Cockroaches May Be Future Emergency Responders

Researchers say they've figured out a way to create cyborg, remote-controlled cockroaches, hoping one day the resilient creatures could be steered into disaster zones to gather information and look...

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In New Bataan, they buried the dead, finally, but temporarily

They finally buried the dead three weeks after super typhoon Pablo hit this town on December 4, but only temporarily. At the public cemetery in Purok 4, Barangay Cabinuangan on Thursday afternoon,...

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Chasnala mine disaster victims remembered

Rich tributes were paid to 375 miners who met their watery grave at Chasnala colliery on this day way back in 1975. The deafening sound of siren broke the eerie calm at around 1.35pm and hundreds...

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Nine killed, 11 injured in Osun in auto crash

Nine persons were killed and eleven sustained severe injuries on Thursday in an auto crash which occurred along Gbongan-Ife Express Road, Osun State, South west Nigeria. It was gathered that the...

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At least 13 people killed in Nepal bus accident

A bus has veered off a mountain road and plunged into a river in western Nepal, killing at least 13 people and leaving 19 others critically injured. Police official Binod Ghimire said the bus...

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Truck crash kills five in central Cuba

Five people, including three children, have been killed and seven others injured when a truck overturned in the central province of Villa Clara, local media reported on Friday. The truck of the state-run...

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10 dead, 10 injured in S China road accident

Ten people, including five children, were killed and 10 others injured after a minibus fell into a mountain valley Friday morning in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A nine-seat minibus...

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Quinta death toll rises to 11

The death toll of tropical storm Quinta was raised to 11 as more bodies were found after the flooding in Visayas, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRM) said on Friday,...

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