Tag: Death Toll

Bhubaneswar:  After a day’s respite, sweltering heat revived in Odisha on Monday with the mercury climbing to 43.5 degree Celsius at Angul, making it the hottest place in the state. However, in some of the coastal areas the temperature dropped marginally. In Bhubaneswar the maximum temperature fell to 38.4 degree celsius from 40.6 degree C […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today claimed that Japanese Encephalitis was well under control even as the death toll in the tribal-dominated Malkangiri district touched 93 in a span of two months. Health and family welfare minister Pradip Kumar Amat told reporters here that 93 children had died in Malkangiri district, of which 32 were suferring […]

The death toll in last week's devastating earthquake in Nepal has exceeded 6,300 with over 14,000 people being injured in the Himalayan nation's 26 affected districts, officials here said today

Lucknow: With the death of one more person on Saturday, the death toll in the Uttar Pradesh hooch tragedy has climbed to 29, officials said. The victim, Ravindra from Kushinagar district, died on Saturday morning at a hospital where he was being treated for the past two days, an official told IANS. With this death, […]

Lucknow: The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand went up to 47 on Saturday evening even as raids continued across the state. As many as 175 persons have been arrested so far in connection with the tragedy while 297 cases were registered against the hooch trading mafia, officials said. Thousands […]

Jammu: The death toll in the Jammu bus stand grenade attack increased to two on Friday, police said. Muhammad Riyaz, 32, who was injured on Thursday when the grenade flung by a militant exploded under a parked passenger bus at the General Bus Stand here, succumbed to his wounds in a hospital early Friday, the […]

Bengaluru: The death toll in the building collapse in Karnataka’s Dharwad on Tuesday rose to 10 with five more bodies retrieved from the debris on Thursday, the third day of search and rescue operations, according to the police. Rescuers were still searching for people in the debris. Many people were feared trapped after an under-construction […]

Bhubaneswar: The death toll in cyclone Fani that unleashed devastation in several districts of Odisha on May 3 rose to 35 as per reports of the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC). Highest death toll of 21 has been recorded in Puri, where the extremely severe cyclone Fani had made landfall. As per sources from State […]

Kabul: The death toll of a Taliban attack targeting an international aid group in the Afghan capital jumped to 14 on Thursday, with the militant group warning it would conduct more such strikes to avenge the civilian casualties of counter-insurgency military operations by Afghan and foreign forces. A group of Taliban attackers on Wednesday triggered […]

Brasilia: The death toll from prison riots in Brazil has increased to 57, as authorities found the bodies of 42 more inmates in four jails. A fight between inmates during visiting hours led to the deaths of 15 inmates on Sunday at the Anisio Jobim Prison Complex, in the city of Manaus. The inmates were […]

Patna: A total 78 persons have died so far in the flash floods that have hit Bihar in the wake of torrential rainfall in adjoining Nepal, the state disaster management department said on Thursday. According to figures released by the department, the death toll has climbed to 78 as against 67 on the previous day […]

Kathmandu: Floods and landslides caused by incessant monsoon rains across Nepal have claimed at least 111 lives, left 67 people injured and destroyed properties worth USD 9 million across 64 districts, authorities said on Friday. Nepal has been hit by heavy rainfall for the last two weeks which has crippled the normal life across the […]

Beijing: The death toll due to typhoon Lekima in China has increased to 49, while 21 others were reported missing, authorities said on Tuesday. By Monday, the death toll in Zhejiang province rose to 39 while nine others remained missing, Xinhua news agency quoted the provincial flood control headquarters as saying. The ninth and strongest […]

Dar es Salaam: The death toll has reached 97 from the fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania’s eastern region of Morogoro, an official said on Monday. Aminiel Aligaesha, the Muhimbili National Hospital spokesperson, said three more deaths were recorded on Sunday and Monday, bringing to 97 the number of deaths from the ghastly accident, the Xinhua […]

Gurdaspur: At least 23 people were killed and 27 injured after a massive explosion on Wednesday at an unauthorised firecracker manufacturing factory in a densely-populated residential area in Punjab’s Gurdaspur. Several people were feared trapped under the debris and rescue work continued till late in the night. The incident took place around 4 pm at […]