Posts Tagged Accidents and disasters

Cambodian shoe factory collapse kills 2, injures 7

Cambodian rescuers work at the site of a factory collapse in Kai Ruong village, south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, May 16, 2013. The ceiling of the factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident spotlighting the often lethal safety conditions faced by those toiling in the global garment industry.

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Officials: ‘Multiple fatalities’ in Texas tornado

A trucking company trailer landed on a car that was parked in front of a Lindsey Ln. home in Cleburne Texas after a powerful storm went through Wednesday night, May 15, 2013. Neighbors say the trailer was parked on the street and was rolled over onto the car. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — At least six people were killed Wednesday as a spring tornado outbreak devastated parts of North Texas, destroying or damaging dozens of homes and injuring dozens of people.

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Cambodian shoe factory collapse kills 2, injures 7

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry.

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Myanmar minority resist Cyclone Mahasen evacuation

Internally displaced Rohingya people taking refuge in a building belongs to a mosque are silhouetted in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag as members of the displaced Rohingya minority living there have refused to leave because they don't trust Myanmar authorities. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar’s western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.

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NW Wisconsin wildfire consumes 8,700 acres

A structure burns along Sutfin Road east of Comminsky Road in Highland Township, Wis., east of Solon Springs, Wis.,  late Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Crews from Wisconsin and Minnesota were trying to control a rapidly growing wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that forced evacuations of the sparsely populated area.  Several structures were destroyed in a mostly rural and wooded area east of Solon Springs as the forest fire grew to 9 square miles, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. No injuries had been reported.  (AP Photo/The Duluth News-Tribune, Clint Austin)

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether logging operations may have sparked a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that destroyed dozens of buildings and forced at least 60 people from their homes, state officials said Wednesday.

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