At least 13 workers have been killed and another seven injured in a landslide at an unlicensed mine in southern Colombia, local officials say. Witnesses described hearing what they said sounded like an explosion at the open-air artisanal gold mine on Wednesday afternoon, moments before the workers below were trapped. But a local official said
Torrential rains have pummelled South Korea’s Gyeongsang province, triggering a landslide that killed one person and wounded two others. The landslide buried the first floor of an apartment building in the south-eastern city of Geoje on Monday morning. Rescuers pulled out three people, one of whom was later declared dead, local media report. This comes
Funerals have been held for some of the 14 people killed in a landslide that hit a mountain monastery hosting an overnight prayer session in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region. Rescue efforts for others feared trapped in the debris after a hillside above the Orthodox Church monastery collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning have
Seven students and a teacher died in Bangladesh after a landslide devastated a girls’ school inside a refugee camp. The Islamic studies center in the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar was buried under mud and debris on Wednesday afternoon, prompting frantic search and rescue efforts. It is unclear how many people were inside the school.