[ad_1] Listen to article At least 43 people, including 15 children, have been confirmed dead following flash floods in central Texas, authorities said on Saturday as rescuers continued a frantic search for dozens more campers, vacationers and residents who were still missing. The casualty toll will likely rise, authorities said, as localities beyond the main site of … Read more
[ad_1] HUNTSVILLE: Some 27 people, including nine children, have been confirmed dead after flash floods in central Texas, authorities said on Saturday, as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors including dozens still missing from a girls’ summer camp. The sheriff’s office in Kerr County, Texas said more than 800 people had been evacuated from … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article Torrential rains unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas, US on Friday, killing at least 24 people as rescue teams scrambled to save dozens of victims trapped by high water or reported missing in the disaster, local officials said. Among the missing were 23 to 25 people listed as unaccounted for … Read more
[ad_1] US actor Michael Madsen – best known for his frequent collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill – died on Thursday at age 67 after suffering cardiac arrest, his management team said, as per AFP. The actor was found unresponsive early Thursday at his home in Malibu, they said. “Michael … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article At least four people died, 30 are missing and 31 survived after a ferry carrying 65 people sank near the Indonesian island of Bali, the country’s Search and Rescue agency said on Thursday, as rescuers raced to find victims in the rough sea. The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour … Read more
[ad_1] KARACHI: A young man lost his life during a motorcycle snatching attempt in Abdullah Shah Ghazi Goth on Wednesday. The victim, hailing from Kohat, was employed at an estate agency in Gulzar-e-Hijri. He was the third of five siblings and was laid to rest in the Janjal Goth cemetery. However, a case has been … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article Wildfires have killed two people in Spain and two others have died in France because of a heatwave that has gripped Europe and forced the closure of a nuclear reactor at a Swiss power plant. With scorching temperatures again on Wednesday, Spanish officials said a wildfire in Catalonia had killed two people a … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article Two traffic policemen were shot dead in an ambush on Tuesday on the Ghazni Khel–Long Khel road, near Gul Baz Dehqan, in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to local police. The assailants, who remain unidentified, opened fire on the officers as they were travelling on a motorcycle. The attackers also snatched the officers’ … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article A gunman ambushed and fatally shot two firefighters responding to a forest fire in northern Idaho on Sunday, wounding a third, during an hours-long standoff before the suspect was found dead, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said. The shooting occurred at Canfield Mountain, a nature area popular with hikers near Coeur d’Alene, about … Read more
[ad_1] Listen to article A migrant boat sank between Tunisia and Italy, leaving one woman dead, though the Italian coastguard managed to rescue 87 survivors, the Red Cross told AFP Monday. After setting out from La Louza in Tunisia, the fishing boat sank in the middle of the night when it was approximately 45 miles (72 kilometres) … Read more