1 week ago Blast at Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris. The blast, which people reported hearing and feeling kilometres away, occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems in rural Tennessee. The company’s website says it makes and tests explosives at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills in the Bucksnort area, about 97km (60...

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2 w. ago Indonesian school collapse death toll hits 54 after rescuers clear 80% of debris

The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to 54 people as rescuers have cleared nearly all of the debris, rescue authorities said on Monday, in the country’s deadliest disaster this year. Piles of concrete caved in on hundreds of mostly teenage boys after the collapse of the Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the Indonesian town of Sidoarjo, in East Java province, trapping and later killing them. Using excavators, rescuers late on Sunday cleared 80 per...

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2 w. ago ‘No more signs of life’ 3 days after Indonesian school collapsed, rescuers say

Rescuers detected “no more signs of life” at a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people were believed missing days after it gave way, an official said on Thursday, raising fears that no more survivors would be found. Part of the multi-storey Al Khoziny Boarding School on the main island of Java suddenly collapsed on Monday as students gathered for afternoon prayers. After days of rescue operations, 59 people were still feared buried under the rubble after at least five people had been...

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3 w. ago 91 students still trapped 2 days after Indonesian school collapses

At least 91 students remain trapped in concrete rubble almost two days after an Islamic school building in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, collapsed on them, authorities said after reviewing attendance records and reports from anxious families of those missing. More than 300 rescuers desperately worked to free survivors on Wednesday morning, after the structure fell on top of hundreds of people, mostly teen boys, who had been performing afternoon prayers on Monday in a prayer hall at the century-old Al...

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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 1 pupil and injuring 83

A building under construction at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia collapsed on dozens of praying students Monday, killing at least one pupil, injuring dozens and burying others in the rubble, officials said. Police, soldiers and rescuers dug into the debris through the night in attempts to locate at least three additional pupils believed to be trapped alive at Al Khoziny Islamic Boarding School in the East Java town of Sidoarjo. Rescuers also said they saw additional bodies, indicating...

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4 w. ago Death toll rising after Typhoon hits Hong Kong, southern China

Death toll rising after Typhoon hits Hong Kong, southern China  CBS News

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