Disaster
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50Florida jet crash kills all nine aboard, says US transportation secretary
Seven adults and two children on board a business jet that slammed into a Florida residential neighbourhood were all killed, the US...
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327Six killed as Cyclone Arnab batters India’s eastern coast
At Least six have been killed after Cyclone Arnab made landfall on India’s east coast, snapping electricity lines and damaging property in...
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52Typhoon Champi weakens after killing one and injuring 527 in Taiwan
Typhoon Champi killed one and injured 527 as it barrelled past Taiwan on Saturday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that toppled...
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30One dead, 94 injured as Typhoon Champi disrupts travel across East Asia
One person was killed and 94 were injured in Taiwan, and about 1,300 people were evacuated from mountainous areas while hundreds of...
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34China’s Tibet earthquake kills 16, injures 65 and damages hundreds of homes
Rescue teams searched for survivors in China’s Tibet region on Friday after a magnitude 7 quake killed at least 16 and injured...
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125Japan mistakenly issues magnitude 9.9 warning after Russia earthquake
A magnitude 7 earthquake rocked Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday, triggering brief warning of a magnitude 9.9 earthquake in Japan, which later...
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57Pakistan school roof collapse kills 28 as rescuers search rubble
At least 28 people died when the roof of a private school collapsed in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday. Among the victims were...
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63Floodwaters inundate Bangkok as 700,000 residents affected
Floodwaters inundated parts of Thailand’s capital on Monday, forcing residents to wade through flooded streets as some seven hundred thousand people were...
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159Two infants die in fire at Telangana government hospital, 25 shifted to safety
Two infants died in a fire that broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit of the government-run Rajiv Gandhi Institute of...
