Tag: Death Toll

Malkangiri: The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) today mounted to 44 with two more children succumbing to the disease late last night during treatment at district headquarters hospital even as the State government sent more doctors to the affected areas. Two-year old Dasarathi Naik of Dangaraguda in the district died in the late […]

Malkangiri: The number of deaths due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) reached 19 today with the death of three more children due to the disease. According to reports, three girl children, who were undergoing treatment at the Malkangiri district headquarters hospital (DHH), died within an hour of getting admitted in the hospital. The deceased were identified […]

Nayagarh: Toll in Nayagarh cracker factory blast reached seven after one more person, who was undergoing treatment at SCB medical college and hospital in Cuttack, succumbed to injuries on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Gurubari Mohapatra. On September 24, three persons died at the government-run hospital while undergoing treatment there. Notably on September […]

San Francisco: The death toll from the destructive wildfires have reached 80, with 993 people still unaccounted for, authorities said. As of Sunday evening, there were 77 deaths and 9,700 homes destroyed as a result of the 149,000-acre Camp Fire in Northern California, which started on November 8, according to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office. A […]

San Francisco: The death toll from the destructive wildfires in California has increased to 65, while 631 people remain unaccounted for, authorities said. Of the 65 victims, 63 were killed in Northern California’s Camp Fire, deemed as the worst wildfire in the state’s history, while two other people were killed in Southern California’s Woolsey Fire, reports […]

San Francisco: The death toll in the three raging wildfires in California has increased to 25, while the fires have caused destruction to numerous communities across large areas of the US state, the media reported on Sunday. Fires continued to rage on both ends of California as of Saturday night, spreading with breakneck speed and […]

Jakarta: Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 2,010 from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi island on September 28. The official number of missing remained 671 while it is feared that 5,000 people could be still buried under the rubble, reports Efe news. The majority of the victims, 1,601, […]

Jammu: The death toll in the Jammu-Srinagar national highway road accident in Ramban district rose to 20 on Saturday as more dead bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the mini bus, police said. Reports from the area said the overloaded mini bus went out of the driver’s control and dropped into a 200-feet deep […]

Dodoma: The death toll in the Tanzania ferry capsize increased to 225 on Sunday with the recovery of seven more bodies, according to authorities. Regional commissioner, John Mongella, said the seven bodies were discovered on the fourth day of search operations, reports Efe news. So far, there have been 41 survivors , including an engineer […]

Manila: The death toll due to typhoon Mangkhut slamming the Philippines rose to 25 on Sunday while dozens were still reported missing, authorities said. Presidential adviser Francis Tolentino confirmed these figures in Cagayan province, where the season’s most powerful typhoon made landfall on Saturday morning, reports Efe news. Most of the deaths occurred due to […]

Hyderabad: The death toll in Tuesday’s bus tragedy in Telangana rose to 61 with three passengers succumbing to their injuries on Wednesday. As many as 58 people were killed when an overcrowded bus of state-owned Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) plunged into a gorge near Kondagattu in Jagtial district, about 190 km from Hyderabad, […]

Hyderabad: The death toll in Tuesday’s ghastly bus accident in Telangana rose to 57 even as the state government suspended an official of the state road transport corporation and ordered an inquiry. As many as 43 people were also injured in the accident that occurred when an overcrowded state-run bus fell into a gorge in […]

Tokyo: The death toll in Japan’s 6.7-magnitude earthquake, that struck the Hokkaido island last week, has climbed to 44, officials said on Monday. Rescue teams on Monday recovered the dead body of a 77-year-old man, the last person missing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in a press conference. Most of the deaths were recorded […]

Tokyo: The toll from a 6.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture earlier this week, has increased to 21 with 13 others still reported missing, the government announced on Saturday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a press conference that a total of 40,000 people, including police, firefighters, Self-Defence Force personnel and Japan Coast Guard, […]

Kabul: The death toll in a double suicide bombing, claimed by the Islamic State terror group, at a wrestling club in the Afghan capital has risen to 25, a police spokesman said on Thursday. The first explosion occurred at 5.55 p.m. on Wednesday after a terrorist shot dead a security guard and detonated his explosive […]