18, including 8 children, die in southern Pakistan bus fire
ISLAMABAD: At least 18 people, including eight children, were killed and 28 others injured on Wednesday night after a passenger bus caught fire in Pakistan’s southern Jamshoro district, police said on Thursday. The area’s Deputy Superintendent of Police Wajid Thaheem was quoted by Xinhua as telling the media that the bus was engulfed in flames […]
1 dead after gunmen ambush high school football players in Philadelphia
WASHINGTON: A football player was killed and three others were injured after gunmen ambushed them outside a high school in Philadelphia, the US state of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon. The shooting happened around 4.30pm local time outside Roxborough High School, reportedly after a football scrimmage ended, reported Xinhua. Police said the players were walking off […]
Wild elephant kills elderly woman in Tawau
TAWAU: A wild elephant is believed to have trampled an elderly woman to death near the Dumpas area, in Jalan Merota-Kalabakan, near here this morning. The incident is believed to have occurred at 7.30 am while the victim Samsiah Arshad, 67, and her husband Tahir Salleh, were headed to Kongsi 4 of the Cenderamata oil […]
Man killed in collision
SARIKEI: A motorcyclist was killed in a two-vehicle collision yesterday. Meradong OCPD DSP Sekam Anoi said the accident involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck at Nanga Strass Mile 2, Jalan KJD here, happened around 3.15 pm. The victim identified as Keruka Tubeng, 57, from Rumah Rabong, Nanga Strass, was pronounced dead at the scene. […]
9 killed in container depot collapse in Brazil
SAO PAULO: At least nine people were killed and as many as 28 injured Tuesday when part of a container depot collapsed in Brazil’s southeastern state of Sao Paulo, the fire department reported. The incident occurred in the city of Itapecerica da Serra, at a depot belonging to Multiteiner, a company that sells and leases […]
9 killed after bus plunges into Costa Rican ravine
SAN JOSÉ: At least nine people were killed and four left missing when a bus and two other vehicles plunged into a ravine in a mountainous part of Costa Rica, the Red Cross reported Sunday. The bus, car and motorcycle slid into the 75-metre-deep ravine on Saturday when heavy rain caused a landslide at the […]
Three killed, another severely injured in accident along Jalan Julau-Bintangor
SIBU: Three people were killed while another was seriously injured in an accident involving two motorcycles at Batu 12 Jalan Julau-Bintangor, last night. The Sarawak Fire Operations Centre (PGO) in a statement today said that they received a distress call at 10.24 pm yesterday and deployed a team of members from the Bintangor Fire and […]
Motorcyclist dies in crash
MIRI: A 20 year-old motorcyclist was killed in a road accident that occurred at KM114 along the Jalan Miri-Bintulu, adjacent to Tuai Rumah Ngindang longhouse early today (Sept 12). According to Miri district police chief ACP Alexson Naga Chabu, preliminary investigation showed that the victim’s motorcycle had skidded and veered into the opposite lane before […]
Rescuers scour for survivors after dozens killed in China quake
BEIJING: Rescuers scoured through rubble for hundreds of missing people in parts of southwestern China on Tuesday after an earthquake killed more than 60, as local weather services warned rain was set to inundate the area. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan province at a […]
Truck plunges into ravine, kills three
KAPIT: A truck driver and his two attendants were killed after their concrete mixer truck plunged into a ravine along Jalan Ulu Sungai Dap yesterday. Kapit OCPD DSP Freddy Bian, who confirmed the case, said the fatal accident happened around 11am. He revealed that the truck transporting cement, was travelling from Mujong to the road […]
