The death toll from the devastating earthquake-cum-tsunami in Japan is likely to be over 1,600.
According to a police tally, the death toll has reached 564 so far, while 200 to 300 bodies were transferred to Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture.
It was also reported that another 200 bodies were transferred to gymnasiums in Iwanuma and Natori, both [...]
A 8.9-magnitude earthquake has triggered a tsunami along Japan’s north-eastern coastline, and scores are feared killed.
Cars, boats, homes and people were swept away as fires burned out of control.
When four-year-old Alice Were suddenly developed a fever, her mother Miriam took her to the local medicine woman close to her house in Kangemi, a poor, cramped settlement on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Two days later, Alice was unconscious. Her frantic mother rushed to hospital with the child in her arms. But [...]
The death toll from the massive mudslide in Zhouqu County, northwest China’s Gansu Province, has risen to 1,239 as of 4 p.m. Saturday, with 505 still missing, local disaster relief headquarters said.
The county education department said Saturday that primary and middle schools in Zhouqu will start the autumn semester on August 25, ten days later [...]
Over 100 people were killed and 2,000 went missing on Sunday morning after landslides triggered by torrential rains hit northwest China’s Gansu province, an official said.
The landslides occurred at around 12 am on Sunday in Zhouqu county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. More than 100 people have been confirmed dead and some 2,000 others are [...]
Flash floods caused by torrential rain killed 19 people and left 12 missing near France’s Mediterranean coast, local officials said today.
More than 350 mm (14 inches) of rain fell on the Var department in southern France in a few hours yesterday.
“Draguignan was the worst-hit town, with hundreds of vehicles swept away and several neighbourhoods under [...]
One person was killed, eleven were injured and more than 100 houses collapsed in an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale in southwest China’s Sichuan Province early Sunday.
The casualties were reported in three villages of Moxi town, Suining City in eastern Sichuan after the quake jolted the area at 5:36 a.m. (Beijing time), according [...]
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