Rescue efforts for 7 ferry victims stopped
Authorities said Monday they had abandoned hope of finding alive seven people missing from a ferry which sank last week with dozens on board, after three days of searching in strong currents.
Authorities said Monday they had abandoned hope of finding alive seven people missing from a ferry which sank last week with dozens on board, after three days of searching in strong currents.
A man has survived a plunge from the 15th floor of his New Zealand apartment building and is recovering well.
Police said five children have accidentally set off a land mine while playing in Bosnia, and that one was killed and the others were injured.
Philippine Navy divers battled strong ocean currents Sunday in a desperate hunt for seven missing passengers of a ferry that sank with dozens onboard.
Poor lashing of a bus onboard may have caused a ferry to tilt off balance and sink off Burias Island in Masbate province early Friday, killing two people and leaving four others missing.
Following two runway accidents by Cebu Pacific planes, a legislator called for the airline’s temporary suspension and the grounding of all its pilots while investigation was ongoing.
Fire gutted a portion of a mall’s food court in Muntinlupa City Friday, a fire officer said.
A train crash on the outskirts of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires has claimed an unconfirmed number of lives and injured dozens of people, an official said Thursday.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has issued guidelines requiring the drivers and operators of heavy vehicles carrying cement to have signs warning other motorists to keep a safe distance from them.
State media said at least 11 people were killed when an explosion caused a three-story office building to collapse in eastern China.
China’s high-flying aviation ambitions suffered a setback on Tuesday as Myanmar grounded several planes made by the Asian powerhouse and Indonesia ordered special checks on its fleet following a series of safety scares.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is bent on pursuing the case against the driver and the company that owns the trailer truck that crashed into the rear of the agency’s fire truck in Makati City, resulting in the death of the agency’s laborer.
Rescue authorities have given up hope of finding any survivors after an asylum seeker boat carrying at least 55 people to Australia capsized in the Indian Ocean.
