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MORE than 50 people are said to be injured after a floor of the Indonesian stock exchange in Jakarta collapsed in a shower of glass leaving people scrambling to flee to safety.
A bus has caught fire in north-western Kazakhstan, killing 52 people, the interior ministry has said.Five people managed to escape and were treated by rescue workers on the spot, reports said.
A bus caught fire in a remote part of Kazakhstan on Thursday, killing 52 citizens of neighbouring Uzbekistan, the Kazakh Interior Ministry said on Thursday.The bus was travelling along a road in Kazakhstan's north-western Aktau region that links the Russian city of Samara to Shymkent, a city in southern Kazakhstan close to the Uzbek border.
A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit the Gulf of Alaska in the early hours of Tuesday, prompting warnings of a possible tsunami down the Canadian and US west coast and as far away as Hawaii.Local radio on the Alaskan island of Kodiak, close to the epicenter, urged listeners to move away from coastal areas.‘This is a tsunami warning. this is not a drill. Please get out to higher ground,’ said the announcer on KMXT public radio. ‘If you are on the flats, get up on one of the hills ... Just go high.’There were no immediate reports of damage or injury.
De Brugse brandweer is gisteravond uitgerukt voor een jonge vrouw die ter hoogte van de Kruispoortbrug in het water zou beland zijn. Uiteindelijk bleek ze gewoon thuis bij familie te zitten...De brandweer kreeg de verontrustende melding omstreeks 20.30 uur binnen. Een jong koppel had ruzie gekregen, waarna de vrouw wegliep. De ongeruste vriend kon haar niet meteen terugvinden, waarna hij vreesde dat de vrouw in het water van de ringvaart was beland.
