Officials say a factory fire in South Korea has killed one person and more than 20 others are missing
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say a factory fire in South Korea has killed one person and more than 20 others are missing.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Officials say a factory fire in South Korea has killed one person and more than 20 others are missing.
Torrential rain causes landslides and flooding across three countries
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Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have left at least seven people dead, local authorities said on Sunday.Three people died after torrential rains triggered a landslide in southeastern Switzerland, police in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino said Sunday.Elsewhere in Switzerland, a man was found dead in a hotel in Saas-Grund in the southwest canton of Valais, police said, adding that he was probably taken by surprise by a sudden rapid rise in floodwater.Images published in the online publication 20minuten showed parts of the town covered in a thick layer of mud and rocks.Another man is also missing in Valais, police said.In France, three people in their 70s and 80s died in the northeastern Aube region on Saturday when a falling tree crushed the car they were travelling in, the local authority told AFP.A fourth passenger was in critical care, it added.Switzerland's civil security services said "several hundred" people were evacuated in the southern canton of Valais and roads closed after the Rhone and its tributaries overflowed in different locations.The situation in Valais was "under control" Sunday, Frederic Favre, the official responsible for civil security, told a press conference, but he warned that it would remain "fragile" for the next several days.Emergency services were assessing the best way to evacuate 300 people who had arrived for a football tournament in the mountain town of Peccia, while almost 70 more were being evacuated from a holiday camp in the village of Mogno.The poor weather was making rescue work particularly difficult, police had said earlier, with several valleys in the southern cantons of Ticino and Valais near the border with Italy, inaccessible and cut off from the electricity network.In Ticino, some 400 people -- including 40 children from a holiday camp -- had to be evacuated from risk areas and taken to civil protection centres. The federal alert system also said part of the canton was without drinking water.Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, who is from Ticino, said the repeated disasters "have touched us deeply".It's the worst flooding experienced in the canton since 2000 when 13 people were killed in a mudslide which destroyed the village of Gondo.Scientists say climate change driven by human activity is increasing the severity, frequency and length of extreme weather events such as floods and storms.- Italy flooding -In northern Italy, Piedmont and the Aosta Valley also suffered flooding and mudslides, though no deaths were reported.Firefighters in Piedmont announced Sunday morning that they had carried out 80 operations to rescue people in difficulty.A mudslide temporarily blocked a regional road to the ski resort of Cervinia in the Aosta Valley, a semi-autonomous region located along the border with France and Switzerland. A river which burst its banks caused significant damage to the centre of the town where several streets were flooded.A mudslide blocked access to Cogne, a village of 1,300 people in the Aosta Valley, where 90 millimetres of rainfall was recorded in a six-hour period on Saturday.At the European football championships in Germany, a match between Germany and Denmark Saturday evening was interrupted for almost half an hour because of heavy rain and lighting. bur-vog/cls/db/gv
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Storms in Switzerland and northern Italy caused extensive flooding and landslides, leaving at least four people dead, authorities said Sunday.
Dozens of rescue operations had been carried out after heavy rains caused landslide and severe flooding in Italy’s northern province of Turin on Saturday, June 29, into Sunday, June 30, authorities said.Footage from by Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire service, shows a vehicle stranded in floodwaters, washed-out roadways, and raging waters flowing over a waterfall.Among those rescued were a family of three who became trapped inside their vehicle due to a a flooded stream, the fire service said.In the mountain town of Alagna Valsesia, northeast of Turin, authorities declared a state of emergency after floods caused a bridge to collapse and damaged several roads.Storms and flooding also impacted neighboring regions in France and Switzerland, including the Italian-speaking Swiss region of Canton Ticino where, according to local reports, at least two people were killed and one person was missing after heavy rains triggered landslides. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco via Storyful
Anglo American said on Sunday it was battling an underground fire at its Grosvenor metallurgical coal mine in Australia's Queensland state after a blaze ignited there on Saturday. The mine site is in the coal mining town of Moranbah, located approximately 1,000 km (621 miles) north of state capital Brisbane. "We are continuing to manage a combustion event underground at Grosvenor Mine, following a localised ignition at the longwall on Saturday," Anglo American said on Facebook on Sunday.
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