Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud that left at least 44 people dead and another 15 missing. The heavy rains, along with a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi, caused a river to breach its banks. The …
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Rescue teams in South Africa forged ahead Monday with efforts to find any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed. Their hopes were boosted over the weekend when one of the construction workers was found alive after six days without food and water. Authorities said 24 construction workers who were on …
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A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department said that more than 80% of the Marywilska 44 shopping complex …
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A bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in Indonesia’s West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others, officials said Sunday. The bus carrying 61 students and teachers was returning to a high school in Depok outside Jakarta, the capital, late Saturday from the hilly resort area of Bandung …
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Crews used carefully placed explosives on Monday to break apart a large span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland and send the mangled metal crashing into the water below. Video of the demolition showed the explosives detonating, with flashes of fire followed by a loud boom and a black plume of smoke. The steel truss then …
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A nature-loving doctor was killed in an avalanche on Friday while he was skiing in Idaho, authorities say. Ketchum, Idaho, resident Dr. Terrence “Terry” O’Connor was identified as the sole victim of the avalanche, officials said. The Custer County Coroner’s Office confirmed the death to Fox News Digital on Sunday evening. The 48-year-old was skiing with a partner on Donaldson …
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Fifteen people were injured and three killed in a shooting at a large spring-themed event in Stockton, Alabama, on Saturday, police say. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office announced the injuries and fatalities in a Facebook post on Sunday evening. Authorities explained that the mass shooting began at around 9:30 p.m. at a field on Upper Bryants Landing Road. “Our preliminary …
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Flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan killed at least 50 people on Friday, a Taliban official said. The floods also caused losses to homes and property in several districts, according to Edayatullah Hamdard, the provincial director of Natural Disaster Management in Baghlan. He said that the death toll was preliminary and that it “might rise …
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At least 90 people were injured in Argentina’s capital when a passenger train struck an empty boxcar on the tracks and derailed Friday, authorities said, a rare collision that fueled questions about basic safety. The train was on its way from Buenos Aires to the northern suburbs when it derailed around 10:30 a.m. on a bridge in the trendy neighborhood …
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A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel before striking a construction vehicle and killing three workers on the shoulder of a Pennsylvania highway in April, authorities said Friday. TRUCK DRIVER CLEARED IN DEADLY NH MOTORCYCLE WRECK TESTIFIES TO GET LICENSE BACK Pennsylvania State Police said the 24-year-old driver from Roxbury, Massachusetts fell asleep on Interstate 83, about 8 miles …
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