An explosion at the US Steel Clairton Coke Works plant near Pittsburgh on Monday killed one, injured dozens and left several people trapped beneath rubble, officials said. Emergency teams were on site working to rescue those still caught in the debris.“There are no confirmed fatalities at the Clairton Coke Works,” said Abigail Gardner, director of […]
Representative image credits: AP One woman was killed and five others were injured early Sunday morning during a large outdoor gathering on Chicago’s West Side. This shooting was one of three separate incidents reported within less than three hours in the same South Austin neighborhood.The first shooting occurred just before 2.48 am on North La […]
Eight people were killed and three others injured when gunmen opened fire outside a nightclub in southwestern Ecuador on Sunday, marking the latest incident in the country’s ongoing wave of violence.The shooting occurred in the rural area of Santa Lucia, in Guayas province, considered one of Ecuador’s most dangerous regions. Police said the victims, aged […]
Representative image credits: AP One person died and five others were injured, including a 5-year-old girl, in Baltimore after a mass shooting in a neighborhood Saturday night.The shooting happened shortly before 8:50 pm near Spaulding and Queensberry Avenues, where residents had gathered outside for a crab feed, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said. “It looks […]
Authorities have identified the man who opened fire at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on Friday as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White from Kennesaw, Georgia. White and DeKalb County police officer David Rose were both killed during the incident, according to the Georgia bureau of investigation (GBI). U.S. On […]
Smoke fills the air from a barge after a helicopter crash in the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill (Image credits: AP) Two people were killed Thursday morning when a helicopter struck a powerline and crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, sparking a fire.A video shared by a witness online […]
Martha Nolan, an Irish-origin Manhattan designer, was found dead in a boat of Montauk Yacht club in mysterious circumstances. A woman was found unconscious on board a boat in Montauk on Tuesday while the boat as docked at the Montauk Yacht Club. Police identified the 33-year-old woman on Wednesday as Irish designer Martha Nolan. The […]
Chile mine collapse (Image credits: AP) Four workers trapped in a collapsed copper mine in Central Chile, following a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in the area, were found dead, while one of the workers still remains missing, officials confirmed Sunday.The incident occurred on Thursday at El Teniente, one of the world’s largest copper mines, operated by […]
DUBAI: A shipwreck off Yemen killed at least 27 migrants, with more than 100 still missing, two security sources in the southern province of Abyan told AFP on Sunday.“At this stage, the deaths of 27 people are confirmed, their bodies have been recovered,” one security source said, adding that “searches are ongoing”.A second source said […]
