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Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Senegal road accident leaves 22 dead

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DAKAR — At least 22 people were killed in a collision between a bus and a truck in the centre of Senegal on Tuesday morning, the fire depa...

Khmer Rouge mass grave uncovered in Cambodia

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Workers found the skeletal remains of at least 17 people last week when they used an excavator to dig up soil for commercial use in Kralan...
Monday, 6 August 2012

Bodies of Mexican Miners Recovered After Collapse

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A rescue team found and recovered the bodies of six workers trapped inside a coal mine in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, officia...

A week after the train fire, bodies continue to arrive

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Bodies of the passengers aboard the Tamil Nadu Express that caught fire continue to arrive one after another even a week after the acciden...

Angolan football fans killed in bus accident

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23 fans of Angolan soccer club Kabuscorp were killed and 29 injured when their bus overturned on the road back to Luanda after an away match...
Sunday, 5 August 2012

N. Korean Floods Leave 400 People Missing, 212,000 Homeless

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North Korea said 400 people were missing and about 212,000 were left homeless following heavy rains and floods that lasted through July. ...

Death toll from Beijing rainstorm climbs to 78

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The death toll from rain-triggered disasters and accidents in Beijing on July 21 has climbed to 78 as one more body was recovered, the B...

Bodies Recovered in Flooded Mine in China

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Beijing - Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of eight mine workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in the northern Chinese province o...

Tamil Nadu Express fire toll 34

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The death toll in the Tamil Nadu Express fire mishap rose to 34 on Saturday with Sukhdev Singh of Amritsar dying of burns at the Narayana ...

Multan fireworks explosion toll rises to seven

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MULTAN: Another dead body was found from the rubble of building that collapsed as a result of bomb explosion in Hussain Aghai Chowk Bazar ...

Uttarkashi flash floods : 31 dead, 40 missing

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Dehradun - In the worst tragedy to hit Uttarkashi in more than 30 years, 31 people have died and at least 40 are feared missing in the fla...

NDRRMC: Death toll from Typhoon Gener, monsoon rises to 45

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The death toll from tropical cyclone "Gener" (Saola) and the southwest monsoon rose further to 45 Sunday, with four members of a f...

Lessons for disaster management

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If the Indian Railways fails to learn its lessons from tragedies like the one at Nellore, then it is condemning thousands of other passen...
Thursday, 2 August 2012

North Korean rainstorms return, causing 31 deaths

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Torrential rain and a typhoon in North Korea have killed 31 people and left 16 missing since Sunday, the official news agency reported on ...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

US aircrew's remains found in sunken WWII aircraft

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The remains and personal belongings of five American airmen have been recovered from the wreck of a US Air Force plane, almost 70 years afte...

Philippine farmer finds mass grave; 30 skeletons exhumed

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MANILA - A Philippine farmer unearthed a mass grave with the skeletal remains of up to 30 people believed to be victims of an internal purge...

ID-card may reveal mystery of crashed AN-12 aircraft

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Manali (Himachal Pradesh), Aug 1 (IANS) A frayed identity card bearing the name Arjun Singh of Pune may reveal the 45-year-old mystery cr...
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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

18 train fire victims remain unidentified

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Hyderabad - Eighteen of the 32 people who died in the Tamil Nadu Express fire in Andhra Pradesh Monday are yet to be unidentified even as...
Monday, 30 July 2012

Ebola Outbreak in Uganda Kills 14

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The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, health officials have said, ending weeks of speculation about th...

13 die in Nigeria’s ghastly road crash

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No fewer than 13 passengers died in a motor accident on the Benin-Ore road, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) confirmed on Sunday....