At least 188 people have died and 971 were injured after a pair of powerful quakes rocked Venezuela, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday. The acting president had said earlier that at least 32 people have died after Wednesday evening´s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes, and that the toll was expected to rise. The quakes […]
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Abducted policeman found dead in Bajaur
A policeman was found dead in the War Mamund tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Friday, a day after he was abducted near the Dama Dola area, officials said. Bajaur district police spokesperson Israr Khan told the media that the 54-year-old Shah Munir Khan, who was on leave, was heading home with his family […]
Missing Brazilian soap actor found dead inside a buried trunk after four months
According to many sources, Jefferson Machado’s remains, a South American soap star who had been missing since January, have been recovered in Campo Grande, Brazil. Brazilian officials recovered the 44-year-old actor’s body on Monday, according to R7, a local media station. The trunk holding his bones was discovered buried in a garden, encased in cement. […]
Families line up to bury dead from India bridge collapse
Morbi, India: There were so many dead that their families had to queue up to bury them. Hundreds of mourners milled among the rows of graves at the Muslim cemetery in Morbi on Monday, a day after more than 130 people were killed in India’s worst bridge collapse in decades. Relatives dug graves for their […]
Cuban border guard, migrant boat collision kills five
At least five Cubans, including a young girl, died on Saturday when a speedboat taking migrants to Florida collided with a Border Guard vessel and flipped over, the interior ministry said. Eighteen people were rescued from the waters north of Bahia Honda, in western Cuba, where the collision occurred, the statement said. The fatalities included […]
Autopsy report: Arshad Sharif died half hour after being shot
Senior journalist and anchorperson Arshad Sharif was shot in the head and chest, he succumbed to his injuries almost 30 minutes after being shot. An eight-member medical board comprising senior doctors from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) released the report after performing the autopsy on Sharif’s body. Two members were added to this […]
Russian military jet crash leaves 13 dead as search ends
At least 13 people, including three children, were killed after a Russian military jet crashed into a residential area of Yeysk, a town in southwest Russia near the border with Ukraine, Moscow authorities said Tuesday as search operations ended. The ministry of emergency situations said in a statement that rescuers had completed the search of […]
Five shot dead in North Carolina capital shooting
Five people including an off-duty police officer were shot dead in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh on Thursday, triggering a massive manhunt that shut down part of city for hours and resulted in the arrest of a juvenile suspect, officials said. Two people were wounded: a police officer who was treated and released and […]
22 dead, more than 50 missing in Venezuela landslide
Las Tejerías, Venezuela: A landslide in central Venezuela left at least 22 people dead and more than 50 missing after a river overflowed, officials said Sunday, in the latest deadly disaster caused by heavy rains to hit the country. Dozens of people have died in recent months in the crisis-hit South American nation as a […]
61 dead in migrant shipwreck off Syria coast: Lebanon minister
Beirut: At least 61 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, a Lebanese minister said Friday, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years. Lebanon, which since 2019 has been mired in a financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times, […]