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Storm kills 5 people in San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco : Five people died from storm-related incidents in the US' San Francisco Bay Area, local authorities said. Two San Francisco residents died from injuries in separate incidents related to downed trees on Tuesday afternoon, city…
Powerful quake kills 12 in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Islamabad/Afghanistan : At least 12 people were killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan following a powerful 6.5-magnitude quake that struck the two neighbouring nations, with tremors also felt across north India.
According to the US…
3 die in house fire near Barcelona
Barcelona : Three people lost their lives in a fire in a block of flats in the municipality of Rubi near Barcelona. The Catalan fire brigade confirmed the deaths after they had attended the blaze with eleven fire engines.
They said on…
15 killed as 6.7-magnitude quake jolts Ecuador
Ecuador : At least 15 people have been killed and more than 400 injured after an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Ecuador, the media reported citing officials.
The epicentre was near Balao, about 80 km from Ecuador's…
17 killed in bus crash in Bangladesh
Bangladesh : At least 17 people were killed and more than 26 others injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh's central Madaripur district, nearly 63 km south of the capital Dhaka on Sunday.…
At least 5 killed in Ghana boat accident
Ghana : At least five people were killed After a boat capsized in southern Ghana's Lake Volta, local authorities confirmed. Daniel Adzakpa, an assembly member of Azizakpe Electoral Area, said the passenger boat carrying about 25 mourners…
Helicopter crash in Brazil kills 4
Brazil : Four people were killed after the helicopter they were aboard crashed on a street in Brazil's Sao Paulo, the largest metropolis in South America, the Fire Department said.The accident occurred at 2:35 p.m. local time in the Barra…
11 killed, 10 missing after Colombia coal mine blast
Colombia : At least 11 people were killed and 10 others remained missing after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in Colombia's Cundinamarca, local authorities said.
"We are making every effort with the Cundinamarca government to…
7.0-magnitude quake jolts New Zealand’s uninhabited island
New Zealand : A 7.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, located about 1,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, on Thursday, with a depth of 10 km.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii issued a…
5 dead due to floods in quake-hit Turkish provinces
Turkey : At least five people were killed, and five others went missing in floods that hit Turkey's southern provinces, as the region is still struggling to recover from the effects of massive February 6 earthquakes.
At least four people…