4 d. ago Dozens injured at memorial for revered Kenyan politician Odinga: Red Cross

Dozens of mourners were injured on Saturday at a memorial service for Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga as crowds swelled, with some in critical condition taken to a nearby hospital, a Kenyan Red Cross official said. A Reuters witness saw injured people receiving treatment at the scene in the city of Kisumu in western Kenya, the political heartland of Odinga’s Luo tribe. The Standard newspaper had said on X that hundreds had been injured. Two people were killed and more than 160 others were...

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6 d. ago Want to avoid meeting a bear in Japan? There’s an AI tool for that

Researchers at a Japanese university have developed a system that uses artificial intelligence to determine the possibility of encountering a bear within 1 sq km (0.4 square miles), a critical new tool as the number of people killed or injured by bears is expected to hit a record high. Lead developer Yusuke Fukazawa is an associate professor of applied machine learning at Sophia University who enjoys orienteering and hiking and hopes his studies will help to create an application that makes such...

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8 d. ago 16 killed in chemical warehouse, garment factory fire in Bangladeshi capital

A fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh and a nearby chemical warehouse on Tuesday killed at least 16 people and injured several, with the death toll expected to rise as rescue efforts continued, an official said. “Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the second and third floors of the garment factory,” fire service director Tajul Islam Chowdhury said. He said the cause of the blaze wasn’t immediately known. The fire broke out at around midday on the third floor of the seven-storey factory...

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9 d. ago Mass shooting at crowded South Carolina bar kills 4, injures 20

A mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on an idyllic island considered to be the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said. A large crowd was at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St Helena Island when sheriff’s deputies arrived and found many people with gunshot wounds. An estimated 5,000 or more Gullah people living on the island trace their ancestry back to enslaved West Africans who once worked rice plantations in the...

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2 w. ago 15 killed in India after landslide topples bus amid extreme rain

At least 15 people were killed late on Tuesday after debris from a massive landslide hit a bus in India’s northern state of Himachal Pradesh, local authorities said. The bus was travelling on a hilly stretch near Bilaspur district when a landslide struck following days of torrential rain. There were at least 20 to 25 passengers on the bus at the time. Nine men, four women and two children were among those killed, police said. Three injured children were rescued and admitted to a local hospital...

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2 w. ago Female pedestrian killed, 3 injured in traffic collision in Hong Kong

A pedestrian has been killed and three others injured after a private car collided with a van in Hong Kong. Police received a report at 3.53pm on Monday that a private car and a van collided at Po Heung Lane in Tai Po. Three women and one man were hurt in the incident, with two left unconscious. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was later certified dead at the scene, and another unconscious victim was rushed to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin. Photos circulated online showed damage to the...

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2 w. ago Pedestrian killed, 3 injured in traffic collision in Hong Kong

A pedestrian has been killed and three others injured after a private car collided with a van in Hong Kong. Police received a report at 3.53pm on Monday that a private car and a van collided at Po Heung Lane in Tai Po. Three women and a man were hurt in the incident, with two left unconscious. A 40-year-old woman was later certified dead at the scene, and another unconscious victim was rushed to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin. Photos circulated online showed damage to the front part of...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong police arrest driver after pedestrian killed in crash, 3 injured

Hong Kong police have arrested a 60-year-old man after his car rammed into a van, leaving a foreign pedestrian dead and three other people injured. Police received a report at 3.53pm on Monday that a white Lexus private car driven by a 60-year-old man, travelling along Po Heung Lane eastbound, rammed into a stationary white Toyota van near a roundabout. The van then knocked down two pedestrians: a 37-year-old foreign woman and an 88-year-old woman, as well as the 64-year-old van driver. The...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong police arrest driver after 2 pedestrians killed in crash

Hong Kong police have arrested a 60-year-old man after his car rammed into a stationary van, leaving two pedestrians dead and two other people injured. Police received a report at 3.53pm on Monday that a Lexus car driven by a 60-year-old man, travelling eastbound along Po Heung Lane, had slammed into a stationary Toyota van near a roundabout. The van then knocked down two women, aged 37 and 88, as well as its 64-year-old driver, who was reportedly about to climb into his vehicle. The 37-year-old...

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2 w. ago At least 6 die in hospital fire in India’s Jaipur, short circuit suspected

A hospital blaze caused by a suspected short circuit killed at least six patients in a trauma centre at the largest state-run hospital in India’s northwestern city of Jaipur, and injured five, officials said on Monday. The fire began in the intensive care unit of the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, “releasing toxic gases”, hospital official Anurag Dhakad told the ANI news agency, adding that a short circuit was the suspected cause. “Five patients are still critical,” he said, while 13 had been safely...

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2 w. ago Alabama capital rocked by ‘mass shooting’ as rival gunmen open fire in crowd

Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city on Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said. The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified by police as Shalanda Williams, and a 17-year-old identified as Jeremiah Morris. Five of the wounded were hospitalised with life-threatening injuries, including a juvenile, Montgomery police...

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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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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 1 pupil and injuring 99

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors on Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the structure fell. At least one student was killed, dozens were injured and 65 were presumed buried in the rubble. Rescuers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse at Al Khoziny Islamic...

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3 w. ago Islamic school in Indonesia collapses, killing 3 pupils and injuring dozens more

Rescuers ran oxygen and water to students trapped in the unstable concrete rubble of a collapsed school building in Indonesia, as they desperately worked to free survivors on Tuesday morning, more than 12 hours after the structure fell. At least three students were killed, more than 100 were injured, and dozens were presumed buried in the rubble. Rescuers, police and soldiers digging through the night pulled out eight weak and injured survivors more than eight hours after the collapse at Al...

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3 w. ago 4 killed in India’s Ladakh as statehood protests turn violent near China border

At least four people were killed and dozens injured in India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh on Wednesday as protesters demanding statehood for the federal territory and job quotas for local residents clashed with police, two sources said. The Buddhist-Muslim enclave lost its autonomy in 2019 when it was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir state by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and placed under the direct administration of New Delhi. Protesters, led by activist Sonam Wangchuk, also want...

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4 w. ago When Typhoon Wanda wreaked havoc on Hong Kong in 1962 – SCMP archive

As Hong Hong deals with the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, we take a look at SCMP’s coverage of some of the worst storms the city has experienced. Click here to read more. Hong Kong’s day of terror This article was first published on September 2, 1962 Typhoon Wanda, with winds of up to 162 miles an hour, smashed its way through Hong Kong yesterday and in eight hours of terror, killed or injured hundreds, rendered nearly 20,000 homeless, and left behind it a trial of destruction such as the...

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4 w. ago When Typhoon Hope battered Hong Kong in 1979, killing 12 people – SCMP archive

As Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches Hong Kong, we take a look at SCMP’s coverage of some of the worst storms the city has experienced. Click here to read more. Great mop-up is under way by Staff Reporters This article was first published on August 3, 1979 Threats of widespread landslides and flooding hang over Hong Kong today as it licks its wounds from Typhoon Hope. Weathermen have forecast heavy rains – totalling about 100 mm – in the wake of the strongest typhoon in eight years. Mopping-up...

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