Many feared trapped after Kenya building collapse
Many people are feared trapped after a multi-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
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Many people are feared trapped after a multi-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Journalist Will Murray describes how he and a bystander saved an SUV driver from his vehicle.
Two men plunged into raging floodwaters in Queensland, Australia, to save a driver from a sinking four-wheel-drive on Thursday. The dramatic rescue ended in an emotional embrace.
Australian TV reporter rescues man from sinking car
A third attempt has been made to guide the 9ft 10in (3m) shark back to the open sea.
A fire broke out aboard the KMP Batumandi as the ferry approached Merak Port in western Indonesia on Tuesday
An elderly man was pulled unconscious from a flat after a fire broke out in a residential building in Hong Kong’s Western district on Monday night, with about 60 residents evacuating the premises. Police received a report at 8.57pm that flames had erupted in a flat in Hang Fai Building on Pok Fu Lam Road in Sai Ying Pun. Firefighters deployed a water jet and a breathing apparatus team to tackle the fire, which was extinguished at 9.54pm. A man in his 70s was found unconscious and was rushed to...
The constable with Mantrayalam police found the body of a woman who allegedly ended her life in the Tungabhadra river floating in the waters, carried it on his back for nearly a kilometre through hilly terrain, before reaching the shore
Seven persons of a group of 70 people who had gone to the beach on a jolly trip were washed away by strong waves; three people were rescued and admitted to hospital
Hong Kong firefighters have rescued a 13-year-old boy who climbed out a window onto the air-conditioning unit to escape a fire that broke out in his flat, while his mother has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect. Police received reports at 7.54pm on Wednesday that a fire had broken out in a flat at Tsui To House, one of the blocks of Tsui Ping (North) Estate in Kwun Tong. Online footage showed the boy, wearing only his underwear, climbing out of a window and onto the condenser unit as...
Bangkok, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Thai police have taken two Japanese men in their 20s into protective custody in the western province of Kanchanaburi, which borders Myanmar. The Japanese nationals, who are believed to have been forced to join fraud at a base in Myanmar, were rescued Wednesday, according to the police. There may be some other Japanese nationals at the fraud base, informed sourc...
Dramatic video shows a man in Egypt rushing and catching a child who fell from the second floor.
A second attempt to guide a shark stranded in a canal in the South Korean port city of Busan back to the open sea ended without success on Friday, with the animal staying in the waterway into its third week. Rescuers, who had been using a net to try to coax it out, had to end the operation after a two-hour chase due to the risk of their huge net getting caught on rocks. They now hope that the shark will eventually swim out to the open sea on its own, after leaving the net in place to limit how...
The remaining trekkers will be evacuated when weather conditions permit, with the operation scheduled to resume at 6 on September 29
Rescue teams resume search for missing people after avalanche on Himlung Himal killed two people during severe weather.