Indonesia ferry fire kills 16, as many missing
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Sixteen people died and at least as many were missing after a fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea.
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A river ferry capsized Monday in southern Bangladesh after colliding with a bigger ship, and at least 15 people were missing, a government official said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 7 â In the latest of a series of transportation disasters in Indonesia, a passenger airliner slammed into the ground on landing at the city of Yogyakarta today and burst into flames, killing at least 21 people and leaving many people badly injured.
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The number of dead as a result of the 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometers under the Indian Ocean, has reached 40,000.
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At least 16 people in the Philippines are now known to have died as a result of Typhoon Xangsane.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 7 -- An Indonesian jetliner carrying 140 people burst into flames as it landed on Java island Wednesday, trapping a number of people inside the burning plane, the airline and witnesses said.
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At least 11 people died after a fire on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea, a navy official and a survivor said.
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The Indonesian navy plans to tow a  fire-gutted ferry from the Java Sea toward port on Friday, an  officer said, amid confusion over how many passengers were on  board and may still be missing.
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At least 15 people are killed and more are missing after a ferry sinks off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
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An Indonesian ferry that caught fire  last week packed with hundreds of people has been towed to  Jakarta's main port as the navy searches for victims and  survivors in the area where flames engulfed the ship.
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NEW DELHI -- A powerful bomb killed at least 16 people, many of them schoolchildren, and wounded about 40 others as they assembled for an Independence Day parade yesterday in the northeastern state of Assam, authorities said.
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OJIYA, Japan  - Military helicopters evacuated earthquake victims from a wrecked village and traumatized residents huddled in shelters and salvaged belongings from flattened homes Sunday in the aftermath of a string of earthquakes in northern Japan that killed at least 16 people and injured a reported 900 others.
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Fire engulfed an Indonesian ferry with more than 350 passengers on board off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, the navy said in a statement. The Levina I was on its way to Bangka island off Sumatra when it caught fire soon after dawn 50 miles from Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port.
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Emergency workers are mounting a massive clean-up operation after the strongest typhoon to pound Manila in a decade left a trail of devastation, at least 16 people dead and millions more without power before heading toward Vietnam.
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook an Indonesian island having killed 16 and injuring dozens. The information was received from the official report of the government of the country.
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A ferry capsized in rough waters in the southern Philippines on Saturday, leaving at least 14 people dead and 21 missing, including a town mayor and a group of students.
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A crowded passenger boat capsized in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 15 people, with several others possibly missing, an official said