[ad_1] Nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in Wednesday’s magnitude-7.4 quake, but strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness appear to have staved off a major catastrophe on the island. Dozens of residents of the worst-hit city spent a night outdoors rather in apartments still being shaken by aftershocks, and a…
[ad_1] Rescuers raced on Tuesday to find dozens of people still trapped after a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China, killing 12. The pre-dawn landslide buried 18 homes and sparked the evacuation of more than 200 people when it struck in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan province early on Monday. More than 24…
[ad_1] Rescuers in remote villages of northwest China are tirelessly sifting through the wreckage of collapsed homes in freezing conditions after a devastating earthquake hit northwest China, killing over 127 people, Reuters reported. More than 700 have been reported injured, in the quake that struck just before midnight. The shocks rattled impoverished Gansu province, causing…
[ad_1] Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At least 288 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one near the district…
