Nigerian building collapse claims 24 lives: Red Cross
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Twenty four people are now known to have died in the collapse of a four-storey residential building in the Nigerian commercial capital, Lagos, the Nigeria Red Cross has said.
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At least 24 people were killed and about 30 injured today in separate attacks a half-hour apart on a police station and outside a mosque in Iraq&#39;s capital, Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
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The death toll from a fire at a building in the Siberian region of Tuva rose to 25, emergency officials said Thursday.
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Red Cross says up to 100,000 people have been displaced as violence continues to rage
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At least 40 people were killed and 1,000 displaced when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of northern Nigerian Zamfara State due to torrential rains.
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The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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A two-story building of apartments and shops caught fire and exploded in Sierra Leone's capital Friday, killing 14 people and injuring 40, authorities said.
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MOSCOW  - The death toll from a devastating fire stood at 26 after emergency workers finished clearing up the ruins of a wooden apartment building that burned to the ground in Siberia, officials said Saturday.
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Rescue workers pulled 24 survivors from the wreckage of a mountain village in Taiwan Thursday after a torrent of mud and rock triggered by a typhoon buried the area, leaving 15 people feared dead.
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A Red Cross Web Site to aid anxious relatives locate survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster partially crashed on Thursday after being overwhelmed by some 650,000 hits in its first 24 hours, a spokesman said.
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A strong aftershock measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted north Japan&#39;s Niigata Prefecture Monday morning, leading the death toll from the three major quakes that hit the prefecture Saturday to reach 24, with more than 2,000 injured.
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At least five people including a young girl were killed and 20 reported missing when a 12-storey block of flats collapsed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Monday, the latest in a string of such disasters in recent years.
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The death toll from the collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria rose to at least 18 on Wednesday, security sources said.
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Rescue workers have pulled 12 bodies from the rubble of a 12-story building which collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, the city police chief said Tuesday.
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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All the 24 people who were in a helicopter which crashed in Nepal have been killed,  officials say.
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Nigerian police say at least 26 people have been killed after thieves set alight a fuel pipeline in the commercial capital Lagos. The fire around the pipeline, which belongs to state energy