News about emergency situations

Driver tells about petrol lorry accident The tank truck damaged four cars before smashing into the residential building next to Rixos hotel in Almaty.

27 June 2013 16:33

Fire near Almaty's Rixos eliminated The fire next to Rixos hotel in Almaty caused by the petrol tank trunk accident has been eliminated.

27 June 2013 14:42

Petrol tank truck explodes near Rixos hotel in Almaty The whole block is in flames and more the 10 cars have caught fire as a result of the explosion. Things kept exploding in the area for some time after the accident.

27 June 2013 13:07

Kyrgyzstan declares emergency after bloody gold mine clashes Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.

01 June 2013 12:32

Huge explosion as freight train derails near Baltimore A freight train plowed into a garbage truck and derailed Tuesday near the US city of Baltimore, triggering a fire and a massive explosion that injured a driver and was reportedly felt for miles.

29 May 2013 15:43

Kazakhstan to create rescue team at Caspian Sea Kazakhstan Emergency Situations Ministry will form a rescue team at the Caspian Sea.

14 May 2013 18:49

ISS crew ready for spacewalk after 'serious' ammonia leak The ISS crew were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious" leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's power system seeping into space.

11 May 2013 14:03

Russian helicopter carrying nine crashes in Siberia A Russian helicopter carrying nine people, including senior rescue service officials, has crashed in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia.

06 May 2013 18:57

Bangladesh building collapse death toll passes 650: army The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster surpassed 650 Monday after dozens of bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a nine-storey building housing garment factories.

06 May 2013 15:59

Dozens hurt in powerful Prague gas blast A powerful gas blast ripped through a four-storey building in Prague's historic centre on Monday, injuring 43 people including foreigners, and causing panic in the Czech capital.

30 April 2013 12:07

Cranes clear Bangladesh disaster site as hopes fade Cranes began clearing the wreckage of a ruined garment factory complex in Bangladesh on Monday after the "last survivor" of the country's deadliest industrial disaster was killed by a fire.

29 April 2013 18:33

Fire at Russia psychiatric hospital kills 38 Thirty-eight people, mostly psychiatric patients, were killed in a fire that raged Friday at a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, trapping the inmates inside behind barred windows.

26 April 2013 17:38

Bangladesh toll hits 273 as US vows to help crackdown Bangladeshi rescuers pulled dozens more people alive from a razed garment factory building Friday as the US pressed for a crackdown on deadly negligence of safety norms in the clothing industry.

26 April 2013 14:54

Fire leaves 300 people without housing in Astana Six gas bottles exploded in a dormitory in Astana causing a fire and damaging the dormitory in Astana.

25 April 2013 13:49

Bangladesh garment trade under fire as disaster toll rises Rescuers in Bangladesh Thursday hunted for survivors in a collapsed building as the death toll rose to 152 and criticism mounted of foreign firms that source cheap clothes from the country.

25 April 2013 12:42

Equipment failure blamed for MIG-31 crash in Karaganda oblast Equipment failure was the main reason of the MIG-31 military aircraft crash in Karaganda oblast.

24 April 2013 14:44

Many feared dead as Bangladesh building collapses At least three people were killed and many more are feared dead after an eight-storey building housing a market collapsed Wednesday on the outskirts of Dhaka.

24 April 2013 13:29

Race to find survivors after 'nightmare' Texas blast Rescuers in Texas on Thursday combed through rubble in a painstaking search for survivors after a massive blast at a fertilizer factory killed as many as 15 people and destroyed dozens of homes.

19 April 2013 16:02

Gunman shoots police officer at MIT: media A gunman shot and seriously wounded a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in an eruption of gunfire at the prestigious university late Thursday.

19 April 2013 13:52

ERA-GLONASS prototype to be compulsory in Kazakhstan by 2017 ERA-GLONASS system will become compulsory for new cars starting from January 1, 2017 in Kazakhstan.

03 April 2013 14:27

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