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Emergency crews have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother, who were both victims of a deadly landslide in Indonesia, authorities said Tuesday. Rescuers were searching around the South Makale village in the Tana Toraja district of South Sulawesi province on Tuesday when they found the girl and her mother, wrapped them in orange body bags and …

Crews are using the largest crane on the Eastern Seaboard to haul sections of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed nearly three weeks ago, amid a race against the clock to locate the remaining bodies and clear the harbor. The Key Bridge took five years to construct in the 1970s, but now, crews are rushing to dismantle the remnants …

Brazilian police investigating the grim discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania. Fishermen off Brazil’s northern coastal state of Pará found the boat adrift Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil’s Federal police said in a statement late Monday it had recovered nine dead in total. “Documents and objects found …

A man plunged nearly six stories to his death after shots were fired in a room at a South Carolina beachfront hotel, Myrtle Beach police said. SC PRISON SUPERVISOR ACCUSED OF TAKING OVER $200K IN BRIBES, GETTING 173 CELLPHONES FOR INMATES No one was injured in the gunfire early Sunday at sixth-floor room at Hotel Blue, investigators said. A man …

Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country’s southwest declared a state of emergency. Most of the deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat and rains caused houses to collapse in eastern Punjab province, said Arfan Kathia, a spokesman for …

A search and rescue team found 18 people killed by landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island and are still looking for two missing, officials said Monday. Rescuers found about 14 bodies in Makale village on Sunday afternoon and four in South Makale, said Mexianus Bekabel, the chief of Makassar Search and Rescue. “We are still looking for two more victims, but …

A fourth body was recovered from the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on Monday, according to officials. The Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced the discovery in a statement. The body was retrieved from the waters on Sunday and positively identified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Monday. The discovery comes weeks after the …

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, a federal source confirmed to Fox News. The probe, first reported by the Washington Post, centers on the 985-foot container ship, the Dali, looking at any violations of federal maritime law, with a focus on whether ship personnel may have been aware of any …

Eight wild buffaloes walked into low-lying power lines in western Kenya and were electrocuted, the national wildlife agency said Friday. The incident happened at the Lake Nakuru National Park known for its diverse wildlife species, the Kenya Wildlife Service said. BUFFALOES ROAMING MAJOR HIGHWAY PROMPT WILDLIFE RESCUE OPERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA The power lines were lying low on the ground …

ISTANBUL (AP) — One person was killed and seven injured Friday when a cable car pod in southern Turkey hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials and local media said. Scores of other people were left stranded late into the night after the entire cable car system came to a standstill. Two …