A building collapsed Wednesday in Qatar’s capital, killing at least one person as searchers clawed through the rubble to check for survivors, authorities said. Qatar’s Interior Ministry described the building as a four-story structure in Doha’s Bin Durham neighborhood. It said rescuers
They added: “Our thoughts are with Kyle’s family as we support them at this difficult time.” More than 100 people joined the three-day search from Thursday to Saturday, hailing from teams in Glencoe, Oban, Arran, Lochaber and Tweed Valley. Other teams also
Hundreds of rescuers searched Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 36 people along the coast of Brazil’s southern state of Sao Paulo following a huge weekend downpour. Worst hit was the city of Sao Sebastiao, where at
Scenes of hope and heartbreak play out in Antakya as rescue efforts continue a week after the catastrophic tremors that reduced much of this city to rubble. A body is carried in a yellow bag from a crater below the arm of
The number of people confirmed dead from a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Syria and Turkey rose to more than 5,000 on Tuesday as more bodies were recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings. Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay said the total
Dramatic pictures from Turkey show a column of flames erupting from a pile of containers that overturned following the high-magnitude earthquakes in the country on Monday. The wall of containers caught fire in the Iskenderun Port in Hatay this morning, after the
Hundreds of rescuers in Vietnam were battling for a third day Monday to save a 10-year-old boy who fell more than a hundred feet down a concrete shaft at a construction site New Year’s Eve. The boy was reportedly heard calling for
Apple’s “Find My iPhone” feature aided in the rescue of a woman who had crashed her vehicle following a traffic collision in Southern California. The San Bernardino County Fire Department wrote on Facebook Monday that firefighters had been dispatched that day to