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19 missing, homes swept away in Japan landslide
AFP, Published on 03/07/2021
» TOKYO: A huge landslide swept away homes and left 19 people missing at a popular resort town in central Japan on Saturday after days of heavy rain, local officials said.
Seventh body found in Norway mudslide, three still missing
AFP, Published on 04/01/2021
» OSLO: Rescue workers have uncovered a seventh body from a landslide that buried homes in a village near Norway's capital, police said Sunday, with a two-year-old girl and her father among the dead.
Fifth body found in Norway mudslide, five still missing
AFP, Published on 03/01/2021
» OSLO: Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, police said Sunday, as the search goes on for five people still missing.
One dead, nine missing in Norway landslide
AFP, Published on 02/01/2021
» OSLO - Rescuers on Friday found a dead body and continued searching for nine other people, including a toddler and a 13-year-old, still missing days after a mudslide destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, the authorities said.
Ten still missing after Norway mudslide buries homes
AFP, Published on 01/01/2021
» OSLO - Rescue workers were still searching on Thursday for survivors after a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, leaving 10 people missing, including two children.
Storm Eta leaves 150 dead or missing in Guatemala
AFP, Published on 07/11/2020
» GUATEMALA CITY - About 150 people have died or remain unaccounted for in Guatemala due to mudslides caused by powerful storm Eta, which devastated an indigenous village in the country's north, President Alejandro Giammattei said Friday.
Storm Eta takes a heavy toll as it tears across Central America
AFP, Published on 06/11/2020
» GUATEMALA CITY - Scores of people, including 50 in Guatemala, have died as the remnants of Hurricane Eta on Thursday unleashed floods and triggered landslides on its deadly march across Central America.
Vietnam troops find more bodies after latest deadly landslide
Reuters, Published on 19/10/2020
» HANOI: Vietnamese soldiers with heavy machinery and rescue dogs searched on Monday for the last remaining troops buried under a mudslide, after recovering 18 bodies from the latest in a week of deadly landslides caused by unrelenting rains.
One year on, Brazil town remembers 270 killed in dam breach
AFP, Published on 26/01/2020
» BRUMADINHO (BRAZIL) - Residents of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil paid homage on Saturday to the 270 people killed one year ago when a nearby dam burst, spewing millions of tons of mining waste over homes and farmland in one of the country's worst industrial accidents.
High-speed train hits truck on crossing in Japan
Kyodo News, Published on 05/09/2019
» YOKOHAMA, Japan: A man died and more than 30 people were injured when a high-speed train hit a truck and derailed in Yokohama on Thursday, police and rescuers from the city near Tokyo said.