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At least 41 have been killed and more than 70 injured in a fire at a hospital in southern South Korea.The fire started on Friday morning at around 7.30am local time in the emergency room on the first floor of Sejong Hospital in the city of Miryang, some 400km from the capital Seoul. It was extinguished in three hours.
* Fire began in emergency room - fire station official* Officials say at least 41 killed, more than 70 injured* About 200 people evacuated from hospital, nursing homeA fire in a South Korean hospital killed 41 people and injured more than 70, officials said on Friday, with eight of those injured listed as being in critical condition.The fire is the deadliest in South Korea in at least a decade, according to the Yonhap news agency, and follows a fire last month which killed 29 people in a high rise sports centre.
Thirty-six people were killed and several missing after a bus with around 50 passengers crashed through a bridge railing and plunged into a canal in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district yesterday, police said.Eight injured passengers were admitted at the Baharampur Medical College and Hospital.The Malda-bound public transport bus fell off the Nalini Buske bridge into the Gobra canal in Balirghat area around 6am.
An earthquake has jolted Afghanistan, with tremors felt in neighbouring Pakistan.Afghans on social media were the first to report the quake on Wednesday, late in the morning.An Al Jazeera reporter in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, said buildings in the city shook.
Eleven people were killed in northern Japan after fire broke out at a home for elderly people with financial difficulties, police said on Thursday.Television footage showed the three-storey building engulfed in flames and dozens of firefighters battling the blaze in snowy conditions.Pictures of the aftermath showed the blackened husk of the building, whose roof had apparently collapsed due to the fire.
Eighteen people were injured on Friday, three seriously, after a vehicle caught fire and mounted the pavement in a busy part of central Shanghai and ploughed into pedestrians, said police.According to preliminary investigations, the fire was caused by a 40-year-old driver surnamed Chen who was smoking a cigarette inside the vehicle, the Shanghai public security bureau said on its official Weibo feed.
A middle school shooting that left two students injured in Los Angeles was the result of a semi-automatic handgun going off by accident in a 12-year-old girl's bag, police said Friday.A 15-year-old boy sustained a head wound, described as a ‘graze,’ while a girl of the same age was hit in the wrist in the incident at Salvador Castro Middle School in central Los Angeles on Thursday.
