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Even as the authorities and doctors are trying to contain the number of hooch-related deaths, people seemed to be still lured by the killer drink. Tuesday saw fresh cases of 29 deaths in Bowring, Victoria and St Martha’s hospitals. The toll so far in...
Tags: Karnataka, hooch tragedy, Tamil Nadu states, India, killer brewed, Billamangalam Village, Krishnagiri District, deaths toll, fresh cases
The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
Tags: Myanmar, Burma, cyclone, Press Burma, Cyclone Nargis, deaths toll, international aid
Previously, Burma was giving a toll of 43,000 dead and 28,000 missing while the Red Cross and United Nations had estimated a death toll above 100,000. Aid agencies are frustrated at the slow progress of aid to areas worst hit. Cyclone Nargis battered...
Tags: Burma, deaths toll, Irrawaddy Delta, cyclone toll, burma cyclone, official deaths, toll soars
As a series of aftershocks rattled the area, officials warned of a potentially greater threat: an additional 391 dams were in "dangerous condition," posing an imminent risk to thousands of people downstream, according to the National Development and Reform...
Tags: earthquakes, China, deaths toll, Sichuan Province, foreign ministry, Hanwang Town, Japan
The death toll from a new intestinal infection in China rose to 34 Friday with two more deaths reported from the eastern province of Anhui as nearly 25,000 people, mostly children, were infected, health ministry officials said Friday.
Tags: SE China, mouth disease, viral infected, deaths toll
Chinese authorities have ordered local health officials to swiftly report all new cases of a fast-moving virus blamed for killing 28 children across the nation and infecting more than 15,000, most younger than 5. Cases of Enterovirus-71, a strain of what...
Tags: China, deaths toll, mouth disease, Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Health Department, old girl, Xinhua News Agency, southern china
In Myanmar's spiraling humanitarian crisis, the international community faces a uniquely confounding scenario: how to overcome the military government's foot-dragging response. Key international players rejected France's proposal that the UN should force...
Tags: Myanmar, Burma, cyclone, aid, Yangon International Airport, Italy, deaths toll
Buddhist monks who demonstrated for democracy in Myanmar last year stepped in Monday to clean up damage from a cyclone in which more than 10,000 people were feared killed. Any government mishandling of the crisis could revive resistance to the country's...
Tags: New Light of Myanmar, Burma Cyclone Rises, Democratic Voice of Burma, New Light of Burma, deaths toll, Irrawaddy River Delta, Bogalay, Cyclone Nargis, storm swept, Yangon
China's Health Ministry issued a nationwide alert Saturday calling for heightened efforts to control a brutal contagion that has caused the deaths of 22 children in one city and shows signs of spreading.
Tags: SARS, China, disease, World Health Organization, Beijing, World Health Organisation, deaths toll, Guangdong Province, Anhui Province, zhejiang province, Zhejiang, mouth disease
Hyderabad, Apr 17 : At least seven persons were killed and twenty wounded on Thursday morning after a tank of hot liquid sugar syrup exploded. T he blast took place at Abadgar Sugar Mill near Buleri Shah Karim of Pakistan's Tando Mohammad Khan District.
Tags: Tando Muhammad Khan, mills boiler, boiler blast, Pakistan, Sindh, deaths toll, boiler exploded, Abadgar Sugar Mills