Death Toll in Pakistan Mall Fire Rises to At Least 55
Families have criticised the slow pace of the recovery operation, with more than 50 giving DNA samples in the hope of finding their missing relatives.
Families have criticised the slow pace of the recovery operation, with more than 50 giving DNA samples in the hope of finding their missing relatives.
Dressed in dark clothing, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia shook hands with emergency services workers near the spot where the mangled wreckage of the two trains remains.
Flags flew at half-mast on public buildings, television anchors wore black, and cabinet ministers curtailed public appearances as Spain observed the first of three days of national mourning.
Police in Ogun state, just north of Lagos, said the circumstances around the wreck were “currently being investigated”.
Seven people were briefly hospitalized after a suspicious package containing a white powder was opened at the military base near the US capital that is home to Air Force One, the presidential jet, US media reported.
Polepole’s legal team has also written to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, requesting immediate intervention and arbitration in Polepole’s human rights case.
Traders were taking the boat from an area in Kogi State to a market in Illushi in Edo State on the other side of the river bank when the accident happened on Tuesday, authorities in Kogi State said.
Police Constable Manasseh Ithiru is believed to have died after falling from the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment occupied by 27-year-old Irene Wavinya Nzioka.
The victims, all girls aged below 10 and enrolled in Grade One and Two, were using the facility when the floor gave way, trapping them beneath the debris.
English is Liberia’s official language.