The death toll from a rain-triggered landslide in Cameroon’s West Region has risen to 11, local authorities said Friday evening. “We recovered seven corpses today (Friday) making a total of 11. “Also, heavy (road) equipment has been removed from the debris. (Excavation) exercise continues,” West Region Governor Augustine Fonka...
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The death toll in a road accident that occurred in Saminaka, in the Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen to 40. The accident, which occurred around 1 pm on Sunday, involved mostly children, who were travelling to celebrate Eld El Maulud, a Muslim festival to mark...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Hajara Wanka, has disclosed that 24 people have lost their lives while 163 others severely injured in flooding that affected 16 Local Government Areas of the State in 2024. She revealed this while briefing journalists...
The death toll from Monday’s landslide in southern Ethiopia has risen to 146, local government officials said on Tuesday. The deadly landslide occurred on Monday morning at around 10:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) in southern Ethiopia’s Geze Gofa district. The deaths included 96 males and 50 females,...
Nigeria has shown a promising decline in its cholera case fatality rate (CFR), dropping to 2.9 per cent amid ongoing efforts to combat the deadly disease. The latest data via the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), website stated that as of week 27, the country...
The death toll from a stampede that broke out at a religious gathering in northern India has risen to 121, minister of Uttar Pradesh state government said on Wednesday. Thousands of people had gathered on Tuesday for a prayer meeting and sermon organised by a local guru at...
People around the world are drinking less alcohol than they used to but the World Health Organisation (WHO) is warning that the reduction is happening far too slowly. The WHO reported in Geneva on Tuesday that the organisation’s goal of reducing consumption by 20 per cent by 2030 compared...
Saudi Arabia’s official death toll from this year’s Hajj exercise has reached 1,301, with extreme heat and unauthorised trips cited as major contributing factors. The Saudi government released a statement acknowledging “numerous cases” of heat stress and highlighting that 83% of the deceased were “unauthorized to perform Hajj.” The...
The death toll has risen to 36 following the collapse of a carriageway on a motorway in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. The agency reported that three more vehicles which went down with the collapsed road had been discovered. Chinese...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that the number of people who were killed in the stampede that occurred on Sunday during the zakaat sharing of N10,000 by a Bauchi based philanthropist, the Chairman of AYM Shafa group of companies have risen...
The number of those who died from the explosion which occurred at the Bodija area of Ibadan on Tuesday evening has increased to five, an official disclosed on Thursday. Prof. Temitope Alonge, who heads the Emergency Operations Centre for the evacuation and rescue of the explosion’s victims, disclosed...
Zambian heath ministry on Monday reported that number of people who have died of cholera in Zambia has risen to 222, while the total number of cases has reached 5,462. The figures were calculated since fresh outbreaks in October 2023 as the waterborne disease spreads to the seventh...
Hamas-controlled health authority said that the number of Gaza Strip residents killed in Israeli attacks had risen to 22,185. The authority, on Tuesday announced that it was 207 more than the previous day’s figure, while 57,035 people have been injured since the start of the war. However,...
Death toll on Friday’s building collapse at Ebute Meta, Lagos State, has increased to three with the recovery of the body of a 12-year-old boy. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the figure to newsmen in Lagos. The News Agency of...
The Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Kaduna Sector Command says the death toll in the Kaduna-Abuja expressway auto-crash has risen to 18, while 27 persons sustained injuries. The Sector Commander , Mr Kabir Nadabo, confirmed the figure when he gave an update to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)....
Israel and Hamas brushed off international calls to renew an expired truce Saturday as air strikes pounded militant targets in Gaza and Palestinian groups launched volleys of rockets. Smoke again clouded the sky over the north of the Palestinian territory, whose Hamas government said 240 people had...
The death toll in weeks of flooding in Kenya in eastern Africa has risen to at least 120, Interior Minister Raymond Omollo said on Tuesday. People from almost 90,000 households have fled the flood waters and are being accommodated in 120 makeshift camps, Omollo added. He did not...
At least 2,300 people were killed in Libya and thousands more were reported missing after catastrophic flash floods broke river dams and tore through an eastern coastal city, devastating entire neighbourhoods. As global concern spread, multiple nations offered to urgently send aid and rescue teams to help the...
The death toll from heavy rain in recent days in South Korea rose to 40, while nine others remained missing, relevant authorities said on Monday. A total of 40 people had been found dead in southeastern North Gyeongsang province and central Chungcheong province, according to the central disaster and...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said 22 states of the federation recorded 109 deaths from Lassa Fever in January 2023. The NCDC via its official website on Tuesday said the infections were recorded in 89 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The...