A 26-year-old woman was killed while her husband wounded seriously when the rooftop of their dilapidated house caved in in the Ittehad Colony in the limits of Factory Area police on Tuesday. Shahid and his wife Shahnaz Bibi were present at their house when all of sudden the rooftop of the ...

MUMBAI : An apartment block collapsed in central Mumbai on Monday evening, killing at least one person with more feared trapped inside, police said, on the second day of heavy monsoon rains in the city."We have information that one person is dead. Rescue operations are on, but they are difficult ...

LOS ANGELES : A highway bridge over a river in the northwestern US state of Washington partially collapsed Thursday, sending cars and people plunging into the water below without causing any fatalities.Three people were fished out but there were no reports of serious injuries or fatalities in the ...

The fact that more than 2,400 people have been rescued from the ruins of the eight-story Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh is a relief given that the death toll went beyond 900 by Thursday. But the shock waves the collapse of the building sent around the world cannot be ignored.This week, the ...

TIMIKA, Indonesia : Four workers have been pulled alive from a tunnel that collapsed at a mine in remote eastern Indonesia Tuesday but 33 others remained trapped, the US operator said.The accident happened at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg, one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines which has ...

DHAKA : Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said on Thursday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.The fire, in an industrial district of Dhaka, ...

KHARTOUM More than 60 people were killed when a desert gold mine collapsed in an area of Sudan’s Darfur where hundreds died in fighting over the precious commodity in January-February, the district chief said Thursday.It was not known how many people may still be missing after Monday’s ...

SAVAR A fire broke out in the rubble of a Bangladesh factory complex Sunday night, killing what the country’s fire chief described as the last remaining survivor from the building’s collapse five days earlier.“The fire broke out as we were cutting a beam to bring out what we ...

REIMS, France : Two people died and 14 were injured Sunday when part of an apartment block in the French city of Reims collapsed after a suspected gas blast, just three weeks after a similar tragedy not far away. French President Francois Hollande sent his “condolences to the families of the ...

accraAFPA gold mine collapse in central Ghana has killed 17 people who were working illegally and had been told to leave by the operator, police and an official told AFP Tuesday. The operator had completed its work at the mine near the town of Kyekyewere and returned only to shut down the operation ...

SIALKOT - Three minor children, two daughters and a son of a labourer, were killed while the fourth one sustained serious injuries when roof the house, they had gone to attend a wedding, was collapsed here in suburban Khokhar-Kingra village here on Sunday.Reportedly, the family of labourer Muhammad ...

SIALKOT - Three minor children, two daughters and a son of a labourer, were killed while the fourth one sustained serious injuries when roof the house, they had gone to attend a wedding, was collapsed here in suburban Khokhar-Kingra village here on Sunday.Reportedly, the family of labourer Muhammad ...

LAHORE - Small industrial units located in Kotlakhpat Industrial Estate, Qauid-e-Azam Industrial Estate, Kattar Band Industrial Estate, Sundar Industrial Estate and Industrial Clusters at Multan Road are facing power breakdowns of up to 20 hours. Manufacturers said that industrial units were on the ...

ISLAMABAD - JAVAID-UR-RAHMAN - The Pakistan Muslim League (N) has almost reached the verge of collapse of seat-to-seat adjustment deal with religo-political parties including Jamaat-e-Islami and JUI-Fazl due to the demand of maximum favour from both sides.The erstwhile partner of Muttahida ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is facing severe financial constraints and is on the verge of collapse if immediate payments were not made to the state entity during next few days. PSO officials informed here on Friday that National oil agency’s receivables swelled to Rs 141 billion out ...

MUMBAI - At least 47 people were crushed to death on the outskirts of Mumbai when an unauthorised partly-built apartment block collapsed, officials said Friday, highlighting the dangers of India’s illegal housing boom.The seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday evening into a mangled heap ...

At least 38 people were crushed to death on the outskirts of Mumbai after an unauthorised partly-built apartment block collapsed, police said Friday, highlighting the dangers of India's illegal housing boom.The seven-storey building collapsed on Thursday evening into a mangled heap of steel and ...

At least 13 people were killed in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha when the sides of a quarry caved in, a local official said Tuesday."There are 13 dead but rescuers managed to save two people," said Mulongo Magessa, governor of Arusha province, of the accident that took place on Monday, days ...

The common sense that governed us for a generation has collapsed. We are living in revolutionary times, whether we like it or not.Common sense is the sum of what we don’t have to demonstrate or prove, of what we can take for granted. Two plus two equals four. Water is wet. The earth orbits ...

LAHORE – The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the police to re-investigate the Kharrak factory collapse incident and submit a fresh report till March 20. Petitioners Zaheer, Zafar and Zubair, owners of the collapsed factory, had challenged the verdict of a Sessions Court about their ...

ETHAN B. KAPSTEINWill Afghanistan collapse after the departure of American troops in 2013? That grim outcome appears all too likely. But the reason why Afghanistan may be heading toward anarchy is not simply due to the Afghan National Army’s lack of military preparedness to fight an ...

LAHORE – An inquiry committee, formed by Mian Shahbaz Sharif on the factory collapse incident, submitted its report to the CM, declaring the City District Government and Lahore Development Authority responsible for the incident.The members of inquiry committee Maj. ® Mubashar Ullah and ...

QUETTA - Two people were killed and seven others sustained injuries in Khanuzai area of Qila Abdullah district when hotel roof collapsed following heavy snowfall on Monday.According to officials, the people were sitting in the hotel when the incident took place. The hotel owner and a driver were ...

A three-storey factory collapsed on Monday in Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least five people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said."The factory has completely collapsed and two houses next to it as well," an emergency official at the site told Reuters by telephone, adding that ...

At least six persons were injured when a house collapsed after gas cylinder explosion here in Rawalpindi on Saturday.According to rescue sources, a gas cylinder blew up in a residential house located at Girjaghar Road of Rawalpindi on early morning. The blast destroyed a portion of house and fire ...

SIALKOT -A labourer was killed and his four other colleagues were injured seriously in collapse of the building of a marriage hall while digging up its basement here Naikapura locality in the city on Thursday.According to the Rescue 112, as many as five labourers were busy in digging the basement ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Rescuers on Thursday recovered three bodies from the rubble of three buildings that collapsed in downtown Rio, highlighting the creaky infrastructure of the city that will host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.The buildings, one 20 floors high, collapsed on Wednesday ...

Rescuers on Thursday recovered three bodies from the rubble of three buildings that collapsed in downtown Rio, highlighting the creaky infrastructure of the city that will host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. The buildings, one 20 floors high, collapsed on Wednesday night in a ...

At least 10 labourers were killed and several injured when a phosphate mine collapsed in Abbotabad city Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred in Kali Daar area of Abbotabad, when some unknown number of labourers were working inside the mine, Xinhua reported citing local media. The reason of ...

BEIRUT - At least 26 people were killed when an old six-storey building in the Lebanese capital collapsed, officials said on Monday, with more people still trapped under the rubble. "Until now, 26 bodies have been recovered and we believe there are more buried under the building that collapsed ...