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September 14 (Eagle News) — Many roads in Japan remain impassable despite the lessening of the flood due to uprooted trees and abandoned vehicles. Rescue operations are still ongoing and the casualties have reached seven. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/_NtcwYC9CQo
SEPTEMBER 14 (Reuters) — Malaysia has arrested three suspects in connection with the investigation into a bomb blast in central Bangkok last month that killed 20 people, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Monday (September 14). Two Malaysians and a Pakistani national were arrested and were assisting with the investigation, Khalid told reporters. The Pakistani suspect is male while one of the local suspects is female and the other is male, he added. “I […]
(Reuters) — Stormy winds knocked over the crane which collapsed onto one of Islam’s holiest shrines in Mecca and killed 107 people on Friday, Saudi Arabia said on Saturday (September 12). Still photographs showed Muslim pilgrims praying and continuing to visit the site as emergency crews worked. The number of deaths may increase, an official warned on Al Arabiya TV, although many of the 238 people injured in the accident were only lightly wounded. Mecca’s […]
(Reuters) — At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca’s Grand Mosque on Friday (September 11), Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence authority said, less than two weeks before Islam’s annual haj pilgrimage. At least 238 people were wounded, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence body said. “The incident took place at exactly 5:23 this afternoon as a result of heavy rains,” General Suleiman al-Amr, director general of the Civil Defence Authority said. Strong […]
(Reuters) — Singapore’s ruling party romped to a strong election victory on Friday (September 11) and increased its share of the vote and seat tally as it brushed off an opposition challenge in the city state’s most hotly contested polls. The People’s Action Party (PAP), which has ruled since independence in 1965, was always expected to win but opposition parties, contesting in all seats for the first time, had hoped to gain enough votes to […]
(Reuters) — At least 20 people were killed on Saturday (September 12) after a suspected gas explosion ripped through a restaurant in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. Another 75 people were injured, an official in Jhabua district police control room told Reuters. Police suspect the blast, which occurred about 800 km (500 miles) south of New Delhi, was caused by a gas cylinder exploding in the restaurant. Television footage […]
(Reuters) — The death toll in a crane accident at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca rose to 87 on Friday (September 11), the head of Saudi Arabia’s civil defence authority told Al Ikhbariya television. He said 183 people had been injured. The accident came just weeks before Islam’s annual haj pilgrimage. Al Arabiya television earlier said the crane had fallen because of strong storms – western Saudi […]
(Reuters) — Floods that swept houses off their foundations and crushed others under landslides spread across Japan on Friday (September 11) as more rivers burst their banks, killing at least three people, leaving at least 23 missing and forcing more than 100,000 to flee. A further 800,000 people were at one point advised to evacuate after officials issued warnings of “once in a half century rains” to five million people in areas east and north […]
TOKYO, Japan – Due to severe flooding, 200, 000 residents of the northern portion of capital city of Tokyo were evacuated. Said flooding was caused by non-stop rains, the most severe experienced by said country. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
(Reuters) — Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday (September 11) cast his vote in its most hotly-contested general election to date, even though the ruling party is bound to win. Lee, who voted in a constituency in the south of the city with his wife, Ho Ching, said he was confident. “I feel good thank you, I’ve cast my vote, I’ve visited my polling stations in Ang Moh Kio and this evening I’ll […]
(Reuters) — At least two people were missing, scores were stranded in flooded homes and some 100,000 evacuated across a wide swathe of Japan on Thursday (September 10) after torrential rains sent rivers surging over their banks and through breakwaters. Record-breaking rain prompted authorities to issue “rare weather warnings” for 5 million people in a wide swathe of eastern Japan, where some areas received more than twice their usual monthly September rain in just 48 […]
SEPTEMBER 10 (Reuters) — Japanese media said on Thursday (September 10) that one person was missing after river banks burst in cities north of Tokyo following days of heavy rain. Ninety thousand people were ordered to evacuate, and the numbers are expected to increase. Disaster prevention officials of the affected regions said the flooding was so widespread they have yet to grasp the full scale of the situation, Japanese media added. National broadcaster NHK said […]
