Tuesday, 7 October 2014

More than 100 illegal migrants missing after Libya shipwreck

October 7

More than 100 illegal migrants were missing after their vessel sank off Libya's coast en route across the Mediterranean, with dozens of bodies already washed up on the shore, local Libyan authorities...

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Japan volcano toll reaches 52, 12 still missing

October 7

Rescue workers today found two bodies in the ash on a volcano in central Japan, where at least 12 hikers are still unaccounted for following an eruption known to have killed 51 others. One body was...

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Lightning strike kills 11 in Colombia

October 7

A lightning strike killed 11 members of an indigenous tribe in northern Colombia Monday after an electrical storm broke out during an early morning ritual. Helicopters airlifted 13 injured people...

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