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Watch: Border Roads Personnel Pull Out SUV From Snow, Rescue Tourists In Arunachal
Braving temperatures that were falling below -10 degrees Celsius, personnel from the Border Roads Organisation have rescued nearly 70 tourists and local residents who were stranded at the Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh because of incessant snowfall.
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"Bodies Litter Streets": Libya Struggles To Cope With Thousands Of Corpses
Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea.
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Delhi Animal Rescuers Allege Brutal Attack, Cops Say Their Car Hit Locals
A group of animal rescue workers have alleged they were attacked by residents of a neighbourhood in northwest Delhi on Friday, while they were trying to help stray dogs, prompting outrage on social media and calls for action. The police said they have filed a case against the residents and some were injured when the rescue workers tried to flee the...
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On Camera, COVID-19 Health Staff Attacked, Chased Away In Madhya Pradesh's Indore
Madhya Pradesh healthcare workers and civic officials were attacked by a mob of angry locals in Indore's Taat Patti Bakhal area on Wednesday, as they visited the area to screen residents for signs of novel coronavirus infection
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Japan Sends In Troops After Typhoon Hagibis Hammers Tokyo, Kills 23
Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers on Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history, which killed 23 people and briefly paralyzed Tokyo.
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Barack Obama Declares Emergency For Flooded Louisiana
US President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration for flood-devastated Louisiana on Sunday, where emergency workers have rescued more than 7,000 residents stranded in homes and cars, said the White House.
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Suspected Russian Warplanes Kill Scores In Syrian City: Rescue Workers
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the centre of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria today, rescue workers and residents said.
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Malaysian Airlines MH17 Shot Down: 'Terrorist Act', Says Ukrainian President
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 295 people on board is reported to have been shot down in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday evening. Ukrainian officials said local residents had found wreckage. A Reuters reporter said dozens of bodies were scattered around the smouldering wreckage of a passenger jet that had crashed in eastern Ukrain...
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Rescuers Close In on Three Trapped Honduran Miners, Eight Missing
Rescuers labored with pickaxes and shovels to dig out 11 miners trapped by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in southern Honduras, and are close to reaching three of the workers, officials said on Thursday.
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Texas flood kills one; more than 200 rescued
Massive flooding from torrential rains in the San Antonio area of Texas left at least one person dead on Saturday and sent emergency workers rushing in boats to rescue more than 200 residents stranded in cars and homes.
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Philippines starts to bury dead as typhoon toll hits 418
Residents in the southern Philippines began to bury their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for possible survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the country's strongest storm this year, which killed 418 people and left nearly as many missing.
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31 dead, town 'gone' as tornados rage across US
Residents and rescue workers went house to house on Saturday in a desperate search for survivours after tornados ripped open the US heartland, killing 31 people and wiping out entire communities.
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Watch: Border Roads Personnel Pull Out SUV From Snow, Rescue Tourists In Arunachal
Braving temperatures that were falling below -10 degrees Celsius, personnel from the Border Roads Organisation have rescued nearly 70 tourists and local residents who were stranded at the Sela Pass in Arunachal Pradesh because of incessant snowfall.
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"Bodies Litter Streets": Libya Struggles To Cope With Thousands Of Corpses
Residents and rescue workers in the devastated Libyan city of Derna are struggling to cope with the thousands of corpses washing up or decaying under rubble, after a flood that smashed down buildings and swept people to sea.
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Delhi Animal Rescuers Allege Brutal Attack, Cops Say Their Car Hit Locals
A group of animal rescue workers have alleged they were attacked by residents of a neighbourhood in northwest Delhi on Friday, while they were trying to help stray dogs, prompting outrage on social media and calls for action. The police said they have filed a case against the residents and some were injured when the rescue workers tried to flee the...
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On Camera, COVID-19 Health Staff Attacked, Chased Away In Madhya Pradesh's Indore
Madhya Pradesh healthcare workers and civic officials were attacked by a mob of angry locals in Indore's Taat Patti Bakhal area on Wednesday, as they visited the area to screen residents for signs of novel coronavirus infection
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Japan Sends In Troops After Typhoon Hagibis Hammers Tokyo, Kills 23
Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers on Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history, which killed 23 people and briefly paralyzed Tokyo.
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Barack Obama Declares Emergency For Flooded Louisiana
US President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration for flood-devastated Louisiana on Sunday, where emergency workers have rescued more than 7,000 residents stranded in homes and cars, said the White House.
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Suspected Russian Warplanes Kill Scores In Syrian City: Rescue Workers
Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the centre of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria today, rescue workers and residents said.
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Malaysian Airlines MH17 Shot Down: 'Terrorist Act', Says Ukrainian President
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 295 people on board is reported to have been shot down in Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday evening. Ukrainian officials said local residents had found wreckage. A Reuters reporter said dozens of bodies were scattered around the smouldering wreckage of a passenger jet that had crashed in eastern Ukrain...
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Rescuers Close In on Three Trapped Honduran Miners, Eight Missing
Rescuers labored with pickaxes and shovels to dig out 11 miners trapped by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in southern Honduras, and are close to reaching three of the workers, officials said on Thursday.
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Texas flood kills one; more than 200 rescued
Massive flooding from torrential rains in the San Antonio area of Texas left at least one person dead on Saturday and sent emergency workers rushing in boats to rescue more than 200 residents stranded in cars and homes.
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Philippines starts to bury dead as typhoon toll hits 418
Residents in the southern Philippines began to bury their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for possible survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the country's strongest storm this year, which killed 418 people and left nearly as many missing.
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31 dead, town 'gone' as tornados rage across US
Residents and rescue workers went house to house on Saturday in a desperate search for survivours after tornados ripped open the US heartland, killing 31 people and wiping out entire communities.
