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12 killed, 63 injured in road accident in Tanzania
Tanzania : At least 12 people were killed and 63 others injured in a road accident in Tanzania's central district of Kongwa in Dodoma Region, an official said.
Rosemary Senyamule, Dodoma Regional Commissioner, on Thursday said the…
4 dead in 5.4-magnitude Indonesia quake
Indonesia : At least four people were dead and several houses and buildings destroyed after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia's Papua province on Thursday, a disaster agency official said.
"The quake damaged houses, a…
4 dead after storm hits Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro : At least four people, including a two-year-old girl, were killed after a severe storm triggered flooding and landslides in the Brazil's Rio de Janeiro city, authorities said.
According to local disaster reduction…
2 kids dead after bus crashes into daycare centre in Canada
Montreal (Canada) : Two children are killed and several others injured after a bus crashed into a daycare centre in Laval, north of the Canadian city of Montreal. The city bus rammed into the Sainte-Rose Daycare at around 8.30 a.m. on…
Turkey-Syria toll reaches 9,638, rescue efforts becoming ‘harder’
Turkey/Syria : The death toll from the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria earlier this week has reached 9,638 on Wednesday, with rescue efforts becoming "harder" due to freezing weather in the two countries,…
Household gas explosion kills 5 in Russia
Russia : A gas leak caused a blast in a residential building in western Russia's Tula region on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring three others, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The five-storey building…
8 dead, 5 missing in Peru mudslides
Peru : At least eight people were killed and another five remained missing after mudslides hit communities in Peru's Camana province, the National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) confirmed.
Heavy rains over the weekend sparked…
Mother, 7 children die in house fire in France
France : A mother and her seven children aged between 2 and 14 died in a house fire in France's northern department of Aisne, the local prefecture confirmed in a press release.
Just after midnight on Monday, the blaze ripped through a…
25 killed in bus-car collision in Pakistan
Pakistan : At least 25 people were killed and several others injured when a passenger bus collided with a car in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, government officials and police said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred…
4 dead after refugee boat sinks off Greek island
Athens : Three children and a woman died after a boat carrying yet unknown number of refugees and migrants capsized off the Greek island of Leros in the Aegean Sea. The body of the woman was collected in the sea, Xinhua news agency quoted…