Tag Archives: Disaster

Beijing, China | AFP |  Chinese authorities launched a frantic search for around 100 people feared buried after a landslide smashed through a mountain village in southwest Sichuan province on Saturday, local authorities said. Some 40 homes in the village of Xinmo were swallowed by huge boulders after the side …

By Agencies Boat accident kills over 100 refugees on Lake Albert Two days after capsised on Lake Albert, the Uganda police marine department had retrieved 108 bodies. The ill-fated vessel which had been transporting Congolese refugees returning to their homeland capsised on Saturday March 22. «As many as 250 people …