MOORE, Okla -Rescue workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb.The massive tornado on Monday afternoon flattened entire blocks of ...

LAHORE - Throughout the day on Thursday, thousands of people were helplessly watching the men falling off the LDA Plaza after the multi-storey building caught fire. The rescuers failed to bring the blaze under control and the helicopters were unable to airlift dozens of trapped victims, who ...

KHARTOUM Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday.“Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them yesterday (Thursday),” ...

  SAVAR   Rescue teams found around 50 people alive Friday on the third floor of a collapsed garment factory compound on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, a fire brigade official said. “We have found around 50 people still alive at several places on the third floor after ...

KLUSHAN: Clogged roads, debris and landslides impeded rescuers Monday as they battled to find survivors of a powerful earthquake in mountainous southwestChinathat has left at least 192 dead. Huge boulders blocked rescue vehicles along roads leading to some of the worst-hit areas, and some areas ...

LUSHAN, ChinaThousands of rescue workers combed through flattened villages in southwest China on Sunday in a race to find survivors from a powerful quake as the toll of dead and missing rose past 200.Dressed in bright orange uniforms, rescuers battled their way up mountain paths strewn with ...

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 ...

LAHORE - The Rescue 1122 has cancelled holidays of its staff and directed to report for Muharram duty at their place of posting.According to a press statement issued here on Sunday, Punjab Emergency Services Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said on the special directive of the Chief Minister ...

LAHORE – Rescue-1122 teams and special divers failed to recover the bodies of two youngsters from the River Ravi on Monday. Earlier, the deceased youths (Sadaqat Ali and Muhammad Ali of Saeed Park, Shahdara) along with their third friend on Sunday left their homes, informing their families ...

RAWALPINDI - Maximum efforts are afoot to strike some breakthrough in the on-going military led-recovery and rescue operation in Gayari (Siachen) amidst the weather forecast of a new snowfall cycle within a couple of days.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), efforts are underway ...

 British and Pakistani journalists said Sunday that the CIA’s drone strikes on suspected militants in Pakistan have repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals.The report, by the London-based Bureau of Investigative ...

LAHORE The passing-out ceremony of 532 fire rescuers for 24 districts of Punjab was held at Emergency Services Academy, Shama Chowk, Ferozepur Road on Monday. Despite of heavy rain, the ceremony started in time as the rescuers are always ready to help in any emergency regardless of day, night, ...

LAHORE - Thirty rescuers of 1122 Punjab Emergency Service whose services were terminated on account of protesting for their right of 50 per cent ad-hoc allowance on July 22, 2010, have decided to submit their appeals before the Punjab Home Secretary today (Monday). Some of them belonging to Multan ...

LAHORE The Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) has started training of 412 rescuers of Peshawar at the Emergency Services Academy in Lahore. These rescuers were recruited for the establishment of Rescue 1122 in NWFP. The Punjab government has extended special assistance to the NWFP government, ...