Page 8 - Disaster Accident
Odisha CM unveils Flood Hazard Atlas
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Saturday unveiled a Flood Hazard Atlas for better preparedness. Patnaik unveiled the atlas at the State Level Natural Calamity Committee meeting here. The chief minister said "This atlas will help identify the disaster prone areas of the state so that necessary plans can be made to tackle the situation." He said the atlas prepared by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad and Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA), will help management of the flood in the state as "Odisha is a flood prone state. The flood causes extensive damage to life and property." The flood hazard atlas has been made after ascertaining data on flood between 2000 and 2018. The atlas keeps the most flood hit areas in focus. Around 14 lakh hectare of agriculture land is being affected by floods every year in Odisha "In the view of the IMD prediction of a normal monsoon this year, chances of flooding would also be there. Enhanced preparedness ...
Mild tremors jolt villages in Telangana
Mild tremors were experienced for a few seconds in a couple of villages in Nirmal district of Telangana, a district officials said Saturday. The quake occurred on Friday night, the officials said. By the tremors ended, the residents of the villages, bordering Maharashtra, came out of their houses, they said. No loss has been reported, they added.
Fiery plane crash claims 9 people on Oahu's North Shore
Nine people died in a fiery crash of a small airplane used in a sky dive operation, officials in Hawaii said. There were no survivors after the twin engine King Air plane crashed Friday night near Dillingham Airfield, on Oahu's North Shore, Hawaii Department of Transportation spokesman Tim Sakahara said. "Upon arrival, we saw the plane fully engulfed in fire," Honolulu Fire Chief Manuel Neves told reporters on the scene. "The first crews on scene extinguished the fire." Neves said the crashed occurred near the perimeter fencing of the small airport. "They're quite a ways away from the runway," he said. The plane was used in a sky dive operation, and Neves said some family members of those on board waited at the airport for the plane to return. The debris field was relatively small, about 50 feet (15 meters) by 50 feet (15 meters), he said. "In my 40 years as a firefighter here in Hawaii, this is the most tragic aircraft incident what we've had," he told reporters at the scene, about ..
Delhi: Services resume after minor fire at RML hospital
All services resumed at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here, which were suspended after a minor fire in the early hours of Saturday, hospital authorities said.After the fire, as a precautionary measure, more than 200 patients were immediately shifted to the trauma centre and other places safely.The situation is fully under control and emergency services are now functioning smoothly. Electric supply which was temporarily suspended as a preventive measure has now been restored. Other services like ICU are also back to normal.The emergency services that were shifted to Trauma Centre have also been again shifted back to the ECS building at the ground floor. All the services including emergency services are functioning smoothly.Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan along with other senior officers of the Ministry later in the day visited the hospital to take stock of the situation. Vardhan also interacted with the attendants and the patients present there.This comes after a minor fire ...
Seven dead in Cambodia building collapse
At least seven people died Saturday when an under-construction building owned by a Chinese company collapsed at a Cambodian beach resort, officials said, as rescuers scoured the giant rubble heap for survivors. The building went down before sunrise in the casino-resort town Sihanoukville in southwestern Cambodia, a rapidly developing tourist hotspot awash with Chinese investments. Four people have been arrested in connection with the accident, including the Chinese building owner, the head of the construction firm and the contractor. A Cambodian landowner has also been held at provincial headquarter for questioning. The seven-storey building was almost 80 per cent complete when it crashed down early Saturday, the deadliest such accident in recent years in Cambodia. "Now the death toll from the building collapse is seven," Sihanoukville city police chief Thul Phorsda said, after officials earlier pinned the number of dead at three. At least 21 people were reported injured -- several ...
Eight killed in three road accidents in Rajasthan
Eight persons, including a couple and their son, were killed in three separate road accidents in Rajasthan, police said on Saturday. Five persons were killed on Friday night in a car-motorcycle collision in Bhadra area of Hanumangarh, they said. Jagatpal, who was riding the motorcycle, died on the spot while his wife Sarita, their son Rohan, and relative Seema succumbed to injuries in hospital, acting Station House Officer of Bhadra PoliceStation Jaman Singh said. He said one of the two men travelling in the car, identified as Jaan Mohammand, also died in the mishap. In another accident in Hanumangarh on Saturday, a car collided with a truck in Rawatsar area, leaving one Ratna (35) and her son Arun dead, police said. A man, who was on a cycle, was killed after being hit by a truck in Padampur area of Ganganagar district. The deceased was identified as Sunil Kumar, the police said. The bodies were handed over to the family members after post-mortem, they said.
7 dead, 3 hurt in fiery crash between truck, motorcycles
Authorities in New Hampshire say seven people have been killed in a crash between a pickup truck and several motorcycles on a rural highway. State police said that a 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup truck collided with the riders on US 2 in Randolph Friday evening. It is unknown how many motorcycles were involved in the crash. Officials said additional details would be provided as they investigate the deadly collision. The pickup was on fire when emergency crews arrived. Witnesses described a "devastating" scene as bystanders tried to help riders that were peppered along the highway. State police said two additional people were transported to the Androscoggin Valley Hospital and one was airlifted to Maine Medical. Police said they could not provide the identities of the dead until next of kin have been notified.
Four dead in accident in UP
Four people en route to Kedarnath were killed Saturday after their car rammed into an electric pole on the national highway 30, police said. The accident took place near the turn leading to Bareilly in Shahjahanpur city after the driver lost control of the vehicle, they said. While Durgesh Kumar (36), Vikas (28), Neeraj Tiwari (35) Umesh (30) were killed on the spot, Sriprakash was injured and his condition was stated to be stable, the police said. They were enroute Kedarnath from their native Gonda district, the police said.
Two suspects in deadly Indonesian lighter factory fire probe
Two people have been identified as suspects by authorities investigating a deadly fire at an Indonesian lighter factory that killed 30 people including several children, a police chief said Saturday. A man and a woman, named only as the owner and supervisor of the workshop, were arrested in North Sumatra's capital Medan shortly after the fire ripped through a rented home that operated as a lighter factory in the town of Binjai, about 70 kilometres (44 miles) west of the capital. Local police chief Nugroho Tri Nuryanto told AFP the pair were being investigated for "negligence" and could face up to five years in prison. The business was initially reported as a matchstick factory but an investigation revealed it was actually producing lighters. Fire broke out in the factory when a worker was conducting a test for the product. The gas lighter exploded and the panicked worker threw it on a pile of thousands of ready-to-pack products, triggering a massive explosion. Victims trapped inside ..
Three dead in central Paris fire: Rescue services
Three people died and another was seriously injured in a fire that broke out in a building in central Paris in the early hours of Saturday, fire services said. One of the victims died after jumping out of the window of the six-storey block of flats situated in the 11th district, which also housed a restaurant and a hammam, a spokesman for the fire services said. The blaze was reported at around 5:00 am (0300 GMT) and it took nearly four hours for 200 firefighters to bring it under control, according to fire captain Florian Lointier. By 08:45 am, the fire still wasn't fully extinguished. A total of 27 people were treated for smoke inhalation, the rescue services said.
Minor fire doused at RML hospital
More than 200 patients were shifted to safety after a minor fire broke out at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here early on Saturday, according to a statement. The Delhi Fire Services received information about the blaze at around 4.19 am, following which five fire tenders were rushed to the spot and it was doused by 5.15 am, officials said. In a statement, the Union Health Ministry said the fire was doused immediately by the hospital staff and there was no casualty. "As a precautionary measure, more than 200 patients were immediately shifted to the trauma centre and other places safely," it said. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and other senior officers visited the Centre-run hospital and took stock of the situation. Vardhan also interacted with the attendants and the patients who were shifted. The situation is fully under control and all the services, including emergency services, are functioning smoothly, the statement said. "Electric supply that was ...
18 injured after minibus turns turtle in J&K's Kishtwar
Eighteen people were injured Saturday when a minibus turned turtle in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accident occurred at Fogmorh near Shalimar and the injured, including the driver of the bus, were shifted to the district hospital, a police official said. He said the bus was on its way to Kishtwar town from remote Kandni village. District Development Commissioner, Kishtwar, A S Rana visited the injured in the hospital to enquire about their condition. "All the injured are stable," Rana said.
MP: 72-year-old man declared dead by doctor found alive in mortuary!
Dead, alive, dead again! A 72-year-old man who was declared dead by a doctor at the District Hospital here was found to be still breathing when his "body" was being sent for a postmortem after spending a whole night in the mortuary! The man, however, died, sometime immediately afterwards.In a case of negligence, a doctor at the hospital declared the septuagenarian identified as Kashiram, hailing from Chhatarpur district as dead but he was found to be alive while being taken for a postmortem."A patient was declared dead by a doctor at 9:30 pm on June 20. When we saw him in the morning on June 21, he was still alive. However, he died sometime later. We have ordered an investigation in this case of negligence by the doctor," said Chief Medical Officer, Dr RS Roshan.Kashiram was admitted to the hospital on June 14."We had received a call in the night that a patient had died in hospital. However, the person was alive when we went to the hospital for postmortem. Soon, we informed the doctor
Woman, newborn killed in autorickshaw-truck collision
A woman and her newborn were killed and three others, including her husband, seriously injured when an auto-rickshaw carrying them collided with a truck in Odisha's Kendrapara district on Saturday, a police officer said. The woman, 25, was returning home from a hospital, where she gave birth to a girl on Friday, when the accident occurred around 8.30 am at Khamara Chowk on the Paradip- Daitary Expressway in Kendrapara Sadar police station area of the district, he said. The truck driver abandoned his vehicle on the road and fled the spot, the officer said. "Minati Mallick and her newborn died on the spot, while three others, including the husband and an ASHA worker, sustained serious injuries. They were taken to district headquarters hospital, where the doctors referred them to SCB Medical College & Hospital in Cuttack," he added.
Authorities say 9 killed after aircraft crashes in Hawaii
Nine people on board a twin engine aircraft died Friday night in a crash on Oahu's North Shore, officials said. There were no survivors in the crash of the King Air plane, Hawaii Department of Transportation spokesman Tim Sakahara said. The crash occurred near the small Dillingham Airfield, an airport on the North Shore. The highway fronting the airport is closed in both directions. Other details of the crash, including whether the plane was landing or taking off at the time of the crash, weren't immediately known, Sakahara said. Officials initially reported that six people had been on board.
7 dead in crash between truck, motorcycles in New Hampshire
Seven people were killed in a crash between a truck and several motorcycles in New Hampshire, state police said Friday, in what witnesses described as a "devastating scene" as bystanders grabbed first aid kits and blankets to treat injured motorcycle riders scattered along the highway. State police said that a 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup truck collided with the riders on US 2 in Randolph. Authorities said additional details would be provided as they investigate the crash. Along with the seven dead, state police said two additional people were transported to the Androscoggin Valley Hospital and one was airlifted to Maine Medical. Police said they could not provide the identities of the dead until next of kin have been notified. Parts of the rural two-lane highway was closed Friday evening, state police said, and would be closed for several more hours as investigators comb the scene for clues about what caused the crash. A photo posted by WMUR-TV showed motorcycles and wreckage scattered ...
Three dead, dozens feared buried in Cambodia building collapse
At least three people died when an under-construction building collapsed at a Cambodian beach resort early Saturday, officials said, with fears dozens more may be buried in the rubble. The seven-storey building in the beach town of Sihanoukville, owned by a Chinese company, collapsed with workers inside. "We have pulled out a body and we see two more bodies still stuck between debris," Yun Min, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province, told AFP, adding 13 people were injured. Images showed excavators digging into the flattened debris in the hunt for dozens of other workers feared to be trapped inside. "There are more than 30 people in the pile of debris from the building," Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said in a Facebook post, citing witnesses. He said all of the dead were Cambodian, including two workers and a translator. Governor Yun Min said around 50 workers would normally have been on the site at the time. "We have rescued 20 so far... we still can't say exactly how many ...
Three dead, dozens feared buried in Cambodia building collapse: officials
At least three construction workers died when a seven-storey building collapsed in Cambodia early Saturday, officials said, with fears dozens more may be buried in the rubble. "We have pulled one body out, we can see two more," Yun Min, governor of Preah Sihanouk province, told AFP while in a Facebook post, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said up to "30 people" could still be buried in the debris.
Self-styled general of NSCN(K) Yung Aung faction apprehended in Nagaland
In a joint operation by the Army and Assam Rifles, the "senior-most officer" of NSCN (K) Yung Aung faction, responsible for ambush on 40th Assam Rifles leading to death of two soldiers, was apprehended in Nagaland on Friday, sources said. Two cadres of his outfit were also apprehended. Acting on human and technical intelligence, the three were apprehended on Aboi-Mon Road, a source said. "The self-styled general is the senior-most officer of the NSCN(K) Yung Aung faction operating in Nagaland which is considered responsible for the ambush on 40 AR (Assam Rifles) in May where they had two fatal casualties," the source said.
Maha: Tremors felt in parts of Yavatmal, Nanded
Mild tremors were experienced late Friday evening in some parts of Nanded and Yavatmal districts in Maharashtra, officials said. Tremors occurred at 9:10pm and were felt in Kinwat, Mahur, Hadgaon and Himayatnagar areas of Nanded, and Umarkhed, Karanjkhed, Pohandul, Hota and Valad in Yavatmal, he said. Several people stayed out of their homes after the tremors, he added. There is no report of any damage to property or injury to people as of now, the official said. An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 had shook parts of Satara district on Thursday morning.
