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WORLD / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Rescue workers are digging through flattened homes and schools in a desperate search for victims of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Authorities say nearly 12,000 people were killed and more than 18,000 are missing. The official Xinhua News A.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 9:42am neoform

News.com.au -- SIX Egyptian men died one after another as they descended into a rural septic tank in a failed attempt to rescue a 17-year-old who had entered the tank to fix a drainage problem, security sources and a family member said. The youth, Ayman Mohamed Gumaa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 26, 2007 @ 11:39am neoform

MSNBC -- It could take months to drain the water from two flooded coal mines where 181 miners have been trapped for four days in eastern China, a rescue official said Tuesday. Families of the miners questioned why safety warnings were ignored before a dike burs.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

USA Today -- Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China. Rescuers finally managed to repair the bre.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 21, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp -- The Fire and Disaster Management Agency has decided to introduce water jet cutters to help carve through debris and rescue accident victims without the risk of sparks starting a fire, it has been learned... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- A massive search and rescue operation is under way in south-western China after one of the most powerful earthquakes in decades. Troops have arrived in Wenchuan county at the epicentre, which was largely cut off by the quake - but heavy rain is hamperi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- In Dujiangyan, rescue teams were trying to get to a woman who was eight months pregnant and trapped in a seven-story apartment building that collapsed. Nearby, a man in his late 50s who refused to give his name, said his father was missing in the rubbl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Rescue crews were sent Friday to find a commercial airliner carrying 46 people that disappeared in southwestern Venezuela. Officials feared the worst after residents reported hearing a crash in the mountains. The flight was reported missing 30 minutes.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- A massive rescue operation is under way in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco after rains caused the worst flooding there in more than 50 years. More than one million people are believed to be affected, with 300,000 thought to be trapped in their ho.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 12, 2007 @ 4:05am neoform

CNN -- This nasty rescue is no fish tale. Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm. The workers became trapped for.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- Attempts to rescue four Russian coal miners trapped underground are continuing, after an explosion killed 106 people at a Siberian pit on Monday. Some 93 people were rescued from the mine, which was devastated by a methane explosion. It was one of t.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 9:27am neoform

CNN -- The body of a U.S. climber missing for more than a month has been found on a remote mountain in southwestern China while a second climber is still missing and presumed dead, a rescue coordinator said Wednesday... Read More