Survivors Rescued

Rescuers raised the death toll in Spain's worst floods for a generation to 205 on Friday and fears grew for the dozens missing as hopes of finding survivors faded.

The death count in the devastating landslides in Kerala's Wayanad district rose to 167 on Wednesday, while 191 were missing even as the rescue teams intensified efforts to find survivors trapped under the debris on the second day of the search operat

Rescue officials crawled inside the overturned bogies of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express looking for trapped survivors, the latest visuals from the ground showed.

At least nine Indian trekkers died in the Himalayas after getting trapped during a blizzard, authorities said on Thursday, as rescue teams airlifted their bodies and five survivors to safety.

Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a U.N. rescue worker at the disaster site and the country's prime minister.

Rescuers and onlookers cheered and applauded Saturday as a survivor was rescued after 116 hours from underneath the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa, with the tragedy having killed at least 13.

At least 42 people died when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya's Rift Valley, the local governor told AFP on Monday, as heavy rains and floods battered the country.

Rescuers have lost hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse, the coast guard said, as efforts switched on Wednesday to looking for bodies of the missing and more answers to why a container ship smashed into the span.

At least 10 people were rescued after an under-construction building collapsed in Kolkata late on Sunday night, officials said.

Rescue teams in Japan on Tuesday struggled to reach isolated areas hit by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, with reports of more than 20 people dead in a disaster that toppled buildings and knocked out power to thousands of homes.

Palestinian rescue worker Ibrahim Hamdan has been on duty almost constantly since Saturday, dodging Israeli airstrikes that have killed paramedics even as his team tries to pull survivors from houses destroyed by the relentless pounding of Gaza.

The priest in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain, who came to the rescue of a 15-year-old rape survivor, has described the horrifying state she was in when he found her.Rahul Sharma is associated with an ashram in Badnagar road, about 15 km from Ujjain city.

Returning home to their families after several months of working in south India, passengers aboard the 12864 Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express suddenly heard a loud thud, following which they fell off their berths and lights went off.

Three passengers of the train crash in Odisha who arrived here on Saturday claim the number of deaths in the accident at Balasore is likely to be much higher than known now.

Wielding gas torches and electric cutters, rescuers worked through the night to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 233 people.

Rescuers raised the death toll in Spain's worst floods for a generation to 205 on Friday and fears grew for the dozens missing as hopes of finding survivors faded.

The death count in the devastating landslides in Kerala's Wayanad district rose to 167 on Wednesday, while 191 were missing even as the rescue teams intensified efforts to find survivors trapped under the debris on the second day of the search operat

Rescue officials crawled inside the overturned bogies of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express looking for trapped survivors, the latest visuals from the ground showed.

At least nine Indian trekkers died in the Himalayas after getting trapped during a blizzard, authorities said on Thursday, as rescue teams airlifted their bodies and five survivors to safety.

Families in Yambali village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping peacefully in their beds when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a gigantic landslide, said a U.N. rescue worker at the disaster site and the country's prime minister.

Rescuers and onlookers cheered and applauded Saturday as a survivor was rescued after 116 hours from underneath the rubble of a collapsed building in South Africa, with the tragedy having killed at least 13.

At least 42 people died when a dam burst its banks near a town in Kenya's Rift Valley, the local governor told AFP on Monday, as heavy rains and floods battered the country.

Rescuers have lost hope of finding more survivors of the Baltimore bridge collapse, the coast guard said, as efforts switched on Wednesday to looking for bodies of the missing and more answers to why a container ship smashed into the span.

At least 10 people were rescued after an under-construction building collapsed in Kolkata late on Sunday night, officials said.

Rescue teams in Japan on Tuesday struggled to reach isolated areas hit by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day, with reports of more than 20 people dead in a disaster that toppled buildings and knocked out power to thousands of homes.

Palestinian rescue worker Ibrahim Hamdan has been on duty almost constantly since Saturday, dodging Israeli airstrikes that have killed paramedics even as his team tries to pull survivors from houses destroyed by the relentless pounding of Gaza.

The priest in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain, who came to the rescue of a 15-year-old rape survivor, has described the horrifying state she was in when he found her.Rahul Sharma is associated with an ashram in Badnagar road, about 15 km from Ujjain city.

Returning home to their families after several months of working in south India, passengers aboard the 12864 Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express suddenly heard a loud thud, following which they fell off their berths and lights went off.

Three passengers of the train crash in Odisha who arrived here on Saturday claim the number of deaths in the accident at Balasore is likely to be much higher than known now.

Wielding gas torches and electric cutters, rescuers worked through the night to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 233 people.