There are fears that the death toll is likely to go up further, officials said.
22 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in the derailment of a passenger train in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh rose to 39, railway officials said Sunday. At least 50 have been injured in the accident that took place Saturday night in Vizianagaram district, about 436 kilometers northeast ...
Death toll passes 150,000 in tsunami disaster, as more bodies counted in IndonesiaLELY T. DJUHARI, Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in a jetty collapse in India's eastern state of West Bengal has risen to 13, police said Saturday. Search for the missing eight was going on in full swing. "Yesterday we fished out seven more bodies from the Hooghly river, which took t...
Heavy rains and flash floods killed seven people in Herat province over the past couple of days, provincial director for the disaster management authority Musa Ashhari confirmed. Similarly, the rainstorms and flooding claimed one life in Herat's neighboring Farah province and two in Ghor province ...
The death toll from a landslide in a mining town in Davao de Oro province in southern Philippines on Feb. 6 has climbed to 98, a regional disaster prevention office said Saturday. The Maco Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Managem...
BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Canadian police says the death toll in a Quebec crude oil train disaster has risen to 13 after eight more bodies were found on Monday. Police estimated a total of around 50 people were either dead or missing after the gigantic blast on Saturday. ...
doi:urn:uuid:50454b737bf85410VgnVCM100000d7c1a8c0RCRDDivers recovered dozens of bodies Wednesday at the site where a South Korean ferry tipped over and sank in the Yellow Sea with 476 passengers, bringing the confirmed death toll from the tragedy to 150.Fox News Latino...
KABUL, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from freezing weather and snowfall in the chilly winter has reached 39 in Afghanistan as spell cold continues in parts of the country, spokesman for national disaster authority Mullah Janan Saeq said Sunday. ...
NEW DELHI, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Friday's building collapse in the western Indian state of Maharashtra has risen to four, officials said Saturday. "With the recovery of more bodies from under the debris of the three-storied building that caved in at KG Nagar in Bhiwandi...