The report, obtained by NBC News in London, was put together by private experts, who examined mobile phone data from Wuhan. According to their analysis, there was no mobile phone activity in a high-security part of the Chinese laboratory complex from October 7 to October 24. Prior to those dates, mobile phones had been frequently used by employees. The report’s authors argued that this could point to the occurrence of a “hazardous event”, at the institute’s National Biosafety Laboratory, between October 6 and October 11. Furthermore, mobile da…
At Least 43 People Feared Dead After Major Fire Breaks Out in New Delhi Factory . According to India Today, rescue and fire department officials have rescued some 50 people, with the Delhi police confirming the huge death toll on Sunday morning. A massive blaze at a factory in New Delhi's Anaj Mandi district claimed at least 35 lives on Sunday morning, India Today reported. Some 50 people are believed to have been injured and rushed to 4 hospitals in the Indian capital. A rescue operation is underway, as even m…
#BREAKINGNEWS China chemical factory explosion kills 47 in blast so big it caused earthquake .
#HumanRights : Emerging technologies that once fuelled democratic movements like the Arab Spring, now enable big businesses to capture personal data and empower authoritative governments to maintain control. https:// youtu.be/1bevLeoS60k by @YouTube #HumanRights , #Africa Three teenage schoolgirls in #Burundi have been sent to prison to await trial for scribbling on a picture of President Pierre Nkurunziza in textbooks, activists said Thursday. #Terror , #Italy . A bus driver in Milan, Italy abducted 51 children. Wednesday,t…
A massive fire that broke out at a hotel in central New Delhi, India has killed 17 people, officials have told AFP. Over 30 people were rescued by firefighters, who managed to contain the blaze after several hours. Onlookers stand on the rooftop of a building as they look at a hotel where a fire broke out in New Delhi, India, February 12, 2019. © Reuters / Anushree Fadnavis The inferno was reported in the early hours of Tuesday, with videos showing the top floors of the building consumed by flames. It was…
Twenty-one miners were killed when the roof of a coal mine collapsed in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province over the weekend, according to state media reports. The Jan. 12 accident is the latest to hit China’s deadly coal industry. At the time the roof gave way, 87 people were underground in the Kijiagou mine in Shenmu city. Sixty-six miners were initially rescued, but 21 remained trapped underground, according to the Global Times, a newspaper run by the ruling Communist Party. All of the missing miners were later found dead.…
A Boeing 707 cargo aircraft with 10 people on board has crashed in Iran amid harsh weather conditions, local media report. The ill-fated plane went down during its approach into Karaj airport, west of Tehran. The airplane departed from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, carrying cargo and 10 people, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency. The Boeing 707 reportedly failed to reach the runway and hit the airport fencing. Iran’s emergency authority has said the jet hit residential areas near Safadasht, a small city in Tehran province. Fars Ne…
A natural gas blast hit on Monday one of the blocks of a 10-storey building in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, damaging 48 apartments. The fate of dozens of people remains unknown. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Monday in Magnitogorsk at the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Emergencies created at the site of the incident and personally inspected the collapsed building. The governor of Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, provided explanations to Putin regarding the building collapse. The president…
15 people dead in fireworks blast at Mexico church Mexico City (AFP) Parish St. Mary of the Assumption in Central Mexican city of Tequisquiapan At least eight people were killed in a procession in front of a church in Mexico during an explosion of firecrackers. Around 50 people were injured in the disaster in the Central Mexican city of Tequisquiapan, the authorities said on Tuesday. Among the fatalities were two children aged eleven and twelve years. The cause of the accident was initially unclear.
Six people have been killed and more than 100 more injured after a stampede broke out in an Italian nightclub. At least 10 of those injured are said to be in a serious condition. The incident took place at the Lanterna Azzurra club, near the eastern coastal city of Ancona, in Corinaldo. FIRST ARTICLE : #Disaster in #Italy : Stampede at club in Corinaldo (Ancona) kills 6 and injures 100 more 'after pepper spray fired'
Six people have been killed and more than 100 more injured after a stampede broke out in an Italian nightclub. At least 10 of those injured are said to be in a serious condition. The incident took place at the Lanterna Azzurra club, near the eastern coastal city of Ancona, in Corinaldo. Local reports say the panic broke out after pepper spray was fired inside the club, but that is yet to be confirmed by authorities.
6 US Marines missing after two jets 'crash in mid-air during refuelling off Japan One person was rescued after a KC-130 refuelling tanker and a F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet were involved in a 'mishap' during scheduled training. Six US Marines are missing after two military jets crashed in an unexplained mishap off the coast of Japan. The two Marine Corps aircraft may have collided mid-air during a refuelling exercise gone wrong, U.S. officials said. At around 2am local time, Japanese search an…
Number of dead, missing in California's deadliest wildfire revised downwards. The death toll in California's deadliest wildfire was revised downward to 85 and the number of people believed missing dropped again to 11, down from a high of more than 1,200 about two weeks ago, officials said on Monday (Dec 3). The number of dead was revised from 88 after DNA tests on remains by the coroner's office, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said late on Monday in a televised press conference. No new human remai…
Californians left homeless by wildfire now face heavy rain and mud. Northern California residents left homeless by the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in state history braced for a new bout of misery on Tuesday (Nov 20) from showers expected to plunge encampments of evacuees into rain-soaked fields of mud. The impending Pacific storm was also certain to hinder search teams sifting through ash and rubble for remains of additional victims in a disaster that already has claimed at least 81 lives and left hundreds more m…
Dozens of children are still missing after Russian mall inferno left at least 56 dead . Dozens of children are missing and feared dead and 56 people have already lost their lives after a fire sparked at a trampoline park engulfed a Siberian shopping centre. Scores are dead in the blaze that broke out at the 'Winter Cherry' building in Kemerovo, Siberia on Sunday. Adults and children were seen jumping from windows from several storeys up or throwing themselves down escalators as they desperately tried …
Mudslides unleashed by a ferocious storm demolished homes in southern California and killed at least 13 people, police said Tuesday. Authorities said the bodies were discovered in mud and debris during rescue operations in Montecito, northwest of Los Angeles. " We are saddened to report that this incident so far has resulted in 13 confirmed fatalities, as result of the storm that came through our area last night, " Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference, warning that he expected the death tol…
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