Indonesian rescuers halt evacuation due to bad weather after landslide kills 25, official says
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesian rescuers on Friday paused search efforts because of bad weather as the death toll from a landslide on Java island three days ago rose to at least 25 people, said a spokesperson for the local rescuers. Torrential rain in the city of Pekalongan in Central Java province triggered the landslide on […]
Deadly Alaska landslide upends life in tourist town of Ketchikan
Reuters Emergency crews in the Alaska tourist hub of Ketchikan braced on Monday for more landslides after a large, rain-drenched slope gave way on Sunday, killing one person, injuring three others and leaving dozens of homes damaged, under evacuation orders and without power. Photos from the aftermath of the slide showed a wide tract of […]
Mudslide in Thailand’s Phuket kills 13, while floods kill 13 in Indonesia’s North Maluku
Bangkok, Thailand Reuters Thirteen people including a Russian couple died in a mudslide on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the authorities said Sunday, after calling off a search for missing persons. Tourists walk past a tractor used to clear an area after thirteen people, including a Russian couple, died in a mudslide on the […]
Landslide kills eight in Ugandan capital
Kampala, Uganda Reuters A landslide at a landfill in Uganda’s capital Kampala has killed eight people, the city’s authorities said on Saturday. The incident happened late Friday after heavy rainfall when sections of the landfill collapsed, covering some nearby houses, Ugandan media reported. Volunteers arrive to search for the bodies of residents killed by a […]
Rwanda’s President Kagame re-elected in a landslide
Kigali, Rwanda Reuters Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 99.18 per cent of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said on Thursday, extending his near quarter-century in office. The two men standing against him – Frank Habineza from the Democratic Green Party and independent Philippe Mpayimana – both conceded defeat in Monday’s election, […]
Heavy rains trigger Ecuador landslide, killing six
Quito, Ecuador Reuters A landslide in Ecuador killed at least six people and left 19 others injured, amid a heavy rainstorm that battered parts of Central and South America, according to Ecuadorian authorities on Sunday. The “large-magnitude” landslide occurred in the centre of the country in the city of Banos de Agua Santa, the Ecuadorean […]
Rescue efforts wind down after deadly Papua New Guinea landslide
Canberra, Australia Reuters Rescue efforts at the site of a landslide in Papua New Guinea were due to end on Thursday, two weeks after part of a mountain collapsed onto a remote village, a United Nations agency said. It remained unclear how many people died in the disaster in PNG’s Enga region, but the national […]
“A mountain fell on them” says rescue worker at PNG landslide site
Sydney, Australia Reuters Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a “mountain” of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a UN rescue worker at the disaster site and the country’s Prime Minister. For five days now those that survived have been using shovels and […]
Papua New Guinea orders thousands to evacuate from path of “active” landslide
Sydney, Australia Reuters Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate from the path of a still-active landslide in Papua New Guinea by the government on Tuesday, after parts of a mountain collapsed, burying an initial estimate of more than 2,000 people. Relief teams in the Pacific nation have been trickling into the difficult-to-access northern Enga […]
More than 2,000 could be buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, authorities say
Sydney, Australia Reuters More than 2,000 people could be buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea last week, the government said on Monday, as treacherous terrain and the difficulty of getting aid to the site raises the risk few survivors will be found. The National Disaster Centre raised the number suspected buried […]