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 ...

BAHAWALPURA man declared his niece Kari and along with his accomplices strangled her to death at Jamaldinwali near Rahim Yar Khan, while two persons died due to suffocation when they jumped into a manhole to rescue their goat which had fallen into it. According to the case details, a resident of ...

ROME - Italy’s coastguard on Friday said it had rescued 213 migrants packed onto two large dinghies, bringing to 650 the total number to have landed on the southern island of Lampedusa in recent days. “The improved weather conditions expected in the coming days could encourage more ...

RAWALPINDI  – The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, Rawalpindi has rescued 3328 emergency victims in 3301 emergency operations during last three months and maintained its average response time of less than seven minutes. Out of total 3301 emergency calls received during previous ...

KABUL  - The Afghan government said Monday that police had rescued 41 children from becoming suicide bombers as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan.Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told a news conference that the children aged six to 11 had been released ...

STOCKHOLM  - A man was pulled alive from a snowed-in car on a deserted forest road in northern Sweden where he had been stranded and without food for at least two months in freezing temperatures, police said Saturday.“We received word on Friday that a person had been found in a ...

BANGKOK - The Thai navy has rescued hundreds of dogs destined for Vietnamese dinner tables in an operation to tackle border smuggling, a naval official said. Following a tip-off, they found about 750 dogs packed into cages on a truck which were about to be loaded onto a ferry on the Mekong river in ...

JAKARTA - An endangered Sumatran tiger found with serious arrow wounds all over its body was rescued from a wire trap in protected Indonesian jungle, officials said Tuesday. The five-year-old male tiger was found on Monday in Bengkulu province on the lush island of Sumatra with nine arrow wounds ...

A MOUNTAIN rescuer says he was hired by a German couple to look for their toy frog, after it tumbled from a 2000-metre peak in the Austrian Alps. After an eight-hour search costing Doris and Juergen Bellmann $565, the cuddly green toy, something of a lucky charm for the couple from near Munich, ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) has rescued over 31,766 victims of emergencies while carrying out 31,743 rescue operations during October across the Punjab, while maintaining its average response time of seven minutes. Provincial Emergency Service spokesman said ...

Two children among 10 people remained trapped in a chairlift for nine hours in Thai village. According to details, the chairlift, with 10 people onboard, got stuck at 7:00pm on Monday night in Thai villages some 10 kilometers away from Abbottabad. The administration was informed about the incident ...

More than 1, 400 people have been moved to safety from Badins flood-ravaged areas of Tarai, Pingrio and Khoski, says Pak Navy. According to a Pak Navy spokesman, rescue operation is under way in Badin. The spokesman said that mobile teams of Pak Navy were providing medical aid to hundreds of people ...

DASKA - A landlord of village Bharokey has lost his life while he was searching for dead bodies of a mother and her daughter whose car plunged into the Bambaanwala Ravi Bedian Canal from a dangerous curve along the Daska-Wazirabad Road on Sunday night. Muhammad Haneef (45) was busy in searching ...

LAHORE Director General Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Dr Rizwan Naseer carried out a performance review of Rescue1122 in 35 districts of Punjab to ensure uniform standard of the Service in all districts. The data has revealed that the Service has rescued over 32,497 victims of emergencies ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE The Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue1122) has rescued over 29,156 victims of emergencies in 29,078 operations in 36 districts of the province during last month. A Rescue1122 spokesman said on Friday that the 29,156 rescue operations included 5495 in Lahore and other ...

LAHORE The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 Director General carried out a performance review of the service in 35 districts of the province to ensure uniform standard in all districts. The data revealed that the service rescued over 27,085 victims of emergencies while carrying out 25,921 ...

LAHORE (APP) - The Rescue1122 rescued over 30,105 victims of emergencies in 29,048 operations last month in 36 cities of the province. The rescue operations include 5,744 in Lahore, 2871 in Faisalabad, 980 in Rawalpindi, 1328 in Bahawalpur, 2535 in Multan, 1005 in Dera Ghazi Khan, 919 in Rahim Yar ...

KARACHI (APP) - The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) has rescued a fishing boat some two nautical miles from Gwadar Fish Harbour. According to an announcement made by an MSA spokesman on Sunday, the agency received a distress message about the fishing boat, Al-Qasim, which had been flooded and sunk. ...

All 33 Chilean miners, trapped more than 600 meters underground for over two months after a rock collapse have been freed, BBC reported on Thursday. On August 5, 700,000 tons of rock collapsed trapping the miners deep in the gold and copper mine. The rescue operation started on Tuesday evening with ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 200 passengers and crew were evacuated after a ferry caught fire near the German island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea, German authorities said on Saturday. The Lithuanian passenger and car ferry Lisco Gloria was en route from the northern city of Kiel to the Lithuanian ...

ISLAMABAD Shalimar Police have booked two doctors along with three guards of a private skin clinic located at Matghalla Road on the charges of making hostage a patient as well as police team, threatening, injuring police officials and showing resistance in the official duty the of police. The ...

The UK-based child Sahil, kidnapped from Jehlum, has been rescued from Sialkot, meanwhile, police have also arrested two persons including a woman over kidnapping charges, a private TV quoted Punjab Law Minister as saying. According to media reports, the arrested person, allegedly involved in ...

Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said. Search operations were called off after nightfall for the unknown number of passengers still missing. A second ferry was ...

LAHORE (APP) - Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) has rescued over 3,76,945 victims of emergencies while carrying out 3,72,546 rescue operations since its inception in October 2004. The Director General Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Dr Rizwan Naseer reviewed the emergency data to ...

A U.S. Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River in full view of New York City skyscrapers on Thursday after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines. Officials said rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank. One ...

GILGIT (AFP) - Pakistani army helicopters airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after a catastrophic avalanche on the world's second highest peak killed 11 mountaineers, officials said. An attempt to evacuate an Italian climber stranded on the 8,611-metre Himalayan summit, ...

PETE Doherty had to be rescued from a Scottish loch yesterday. The Babyshambles star was trying to get to the VIP section at Scotland's Live at Loch Lomond music festival when the rowing boat he was in sprang a nleak and began to sink. Pete's manager, Adrian Hunter - who was also in the ...

BUENOS AIRES,  - Environmentalists rescued some 20 penguins covered in crude oil off Argentina's mid-Atlantic coast, two of which have died and four are in critical condition, the Patagonia Natural Foundation (FPN) said Sunday. The Magallanes penguins were found far from their natural ...

Forty half-starved earthquake survivors have been rescued from a remote area in southwestern China a full 16 days after the disaster, state press reported on Thursday.They were flown out by helicopter on Wednesday from the quake-shattered village of Yangjiagou in Sichuan province, the West China ...