BEIJING – A Chinese worker who tended to his injured colleagues following a deadly earthquake and then got lost in the mountains has been rescued 17 days later. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck southwestern Sichuan province in early September, killing at least 93 people and forcing thousands to be resettled into temporary camps. Mr Gan Yu, […]
KATHMANDU – A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed at least 17 people and injured seven in western Nepal, officials said Saturday, as rescue workers searched the disaster site to try to find five more who remained missing. Rescuers pulled the dead and injured from the silt-covered wreckage of five houses buried under mud in Achham district, about […]
A general view of the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, on Sept 18, 2021. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) MOGADISHU – At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said late on Thursday. Somaliland broke […]