Tag: Accidents and disasters
Moderate quake injures at least 10 people in central Iran
TEHRAN, Iran — A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck central Iran on Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, Iranian media reported.
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Sicilian village cleans up ash, stones from Mt Etna eruption
PEDARA, Sicily — Residents and municipal teams worked Wednesday to clean up a Sicilian village near Mount Etna after Europe’s most active volcano spewed...
Search ends for Filipino crew member lost off German coast
BERLIN — Rescuers have ended their search for a 24-year-old Filipino crew member who fell from a cargo ship off the German coast during...
Mercedes recalls vehicles for emergency-call location error
NEW YORK — Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles because the software in their emergency-call systems could send responders to the wrong...
Earthquake shakes Armenia’s capital
<p>YEREVAN, Armenia — An earthquake shook the Armenian capital on Saturday, prompting residents to flee buildings into the streets in fear of an aftershock.</p>
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3 years’ probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window...
Wrong-way crash kills 3 people on Indianapolis freeway
INDIANAPOLIS — Three people have died after a motorist driving in the wrong direction on an Indianapolis freeway struck another vehicle head-on.
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3 years’ probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death
<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window...
US Coast Guard searching for 6 boaters off the Florida coast
<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard continued its search for six people Saturday, three days after their boat apparently capsized off Florida's...
Millie Hughes-Fulford, trailblazing astronaut, dies at 75
SAN FRANCISCO — Millie Hughes-Fulford, a trailblazing astronaut and scientist who became the first female payload specialist to fly in space for NASA, died...