An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday. The mine, which the children found near their village in Gero district in Ghazni province, was from decades ago, said Hamidullah Nisar, director of the Taliban’s information and culture department in Ghazni. He said the …
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A construction worker’s life was saved last week after he fell 20 feet into a trench in Georgia. Paulding Country Fire & Rescue said that the laborer fell into the trench, caused by a cave-in, early Friday afternoon. Photos from the scene show that the man was buried up to his chest. “Just before noon today, Paulding County 911 received …
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A bakery worker who was one of the last people to have crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore before its collapse last week is telling his story, saying in recent interviews he is “really lucky” not to have been a victim of the disaster. Larry Desantis told ABC News he believes he crossed the bridge early Tuesday between …
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A firefighter collapsed and died while battling a 3-acre wildfire in southwestern Virginia, officials said. MASSIVE 5-ALARM FIRE BREAKS OUT AT BROOKLYN CATHOLIC CHURCH DURING EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES Firefighter James C. Ward collapsed Saturday while working with a crew to extinguish the fire that broke out in Scott County, the Virginia Department of Forestry said in a statement posted on …
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Strong winds in southern Poland on Monday toppled trees that killed three adults and two children, emergency responders said. A spokesperson for the region’s firefighters, Hubert Cieply, said two women and a 6-year-old were crushed to death in the town of Rabka-Zdrój. Separately, a woman died when a tree fell on her car in the town of Zakopane at the …
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Authorities in Russia’s Far East on Monday called off a two-week rescue effort to reach 13 workers trapped deep underground in a collapsed gold mine and declared them dead. The miners got trapped on March 18 at a depth of about 125 meters (400 feet) when part of the mine collapsed in the Zeysk district of the Amur region, about …
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Two employees of Phillips 66 were injured in a fire at one of the oil company’s refineries in the Texas Panhandle on Monday, according to the company. The fire began about 11:20 a.m. and was extinguished by 1 p.m. after emergency management officials and the Borger Fire Department were notified, according to a statement by Phillips spokesperson Al Ortiz. RURAL …
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A Tucson police officer has died in a car crash while responding to a service call, authorities said Monday. MISSING WOMAN AMANDA NENIGAR FOUND DEAD NEAR CALIFORNIA-ARIZONA BORDER: OFFICIALS Police officials said the crash occurred around 10 p.m. Sunday at an intersection not far from the University of Arizona campus and the officer died from his injuries after being rushed …
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Crews at the site where Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last week after being hit by a container ship cut and lifted away a 200-ton chunk of the mangled structure as the work of removing steel and concrete at the site continues, officials said Monday. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said the piece was the size of the Statue of …
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An Israeli tech couple were reportedly killed in a plane crash near the California-Nevada border Saturday evening. Israeli media identified the couple as Liron and Naomi Petrushka. Liron Petrushka was a former soccer player for the Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim. In the late 1990s, Liron Petrushka started a successful tech company with his wife which later sold for $242 million. …
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