14 h. ago Indonesia school collapse death toll reaches 49 as search for missing students continues

Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permitIndonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 49.Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands, rescue teams removed tons of rubble in an attempt to find the 14 students reportedly still missing. Rescuers found 35 bodies over the weekend alone, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Indonesia school collapse death toll reaches 54 as search for missing students continues

Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permitIndonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 54.Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands, rescue teams removed tons of rubble in an attempt to find the 14 students reportedly still missing. Rescuers found 35 bodies over the weekend alone, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Indonesian rescuers search for missing students after school collapse kills 40

Indonesian rescuers have recovered over two dozen bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed five days ago

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59 h. ago At least 14 dead after school collapses in Indonesia with nearly 50 students still missing

Since the school building collapsed on Monday afternoon 14 bodies have been recovered and dozens of students remain unaccounted for - the death toll is expected to rise

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4 d. ago A collapse at a church under construction in Ethiopia kills at least 25 worshippers

Authorities in Ethiopia say that scaffolding supporting a church under construction in the Amhara region has collapsed, killing at least 25 people and injuring scores of others

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5 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: 91 missing and three dead as rescuers search rubble for second day

Desperate search for more than 90 missing after building collapses while students held prayers at school in SidoarjoParents and rescuers in Indonesia were desperately searching for dozens of teenage boys believed to be trapped, a day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school which has already left three dead, authorities said.Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Dozens trapped in deadly Indonesian school collapse as rescuers search for survivors

Hundreds of search and rescue personnel worked to save survivors after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday (29 September).

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6 d. ago Islamic school collapses killing at least three people, with dozens more missing

Searchers raced on Tuesday to rescue at least 38 people still believed trapped after the collapse of the school building that has already left three dead, authorities said.

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6 d. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses killing at least 1 and injuring dozens more

Officials say a four-story prayer hall in an Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s main island of Java has collapsed on dozens of pupils who were praying in it, killing at least one male student

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8 d. ago Suspect went to court to plead to killing his wife. He collapsed and died moments before admitting his crime

James Anderson, 37, was expected to accept a plea deal that would send him to prison for 35 years

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2 w. ago Widow issues statement after trial against brothers accused of killing young dad in crash collapses

Abubakr and Umar Ben Yusaf, from Manchester, denied causing the death of Rhys Jenkins by dangerous driving

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2 w. ago Trial of Manchester brothers accused of killing dad in crash dramatically collapses

Umar and Abubakr Ben Yusaf both denied causing the death of Rhys Jenkins by dangerous driving

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3 w. ago Indonesian rescuers search for missing people as floods recede

Rescuers are searching in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for survivors of devastating flash floods that struck two provinces in Indonesia a day earlier

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3 w. ago Deadly Florida condo collapse probe zeroes in on pool deck flaws as preliminary cause

Federal investigators have zeroed in on flaws in the pool deck as the preliminary cause of the 2021 collapse of a 12-story Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people

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3 w. ago Pictured: PR boss, 49, who was killed by falling tree branch

Jen Higgins, 49, was killed when a branch collapsed onto her on while she was walking on Barlow Moor Road in West Didsbury, Manchester, on August 30.

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