This is Beirut, 20/08 12:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, a provincial official said on Wednesday. "Seventy-six citizens of the country... lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured," Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat ...
This is Beirut, 12/06 13:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
One person survived when a London-bound passenger plane crashed Thursday in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, with 242 on board, a state health official told AFP. "Yes, one survivor is confirmed," said Dhananjay Dwivedi, principal secretary of Gujarat state's health department. They were being treated in hospital, he added without ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 15:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Washington Plane Crash Potomac
US officials said Thursday there were likely no survivors after a passenger jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the icy waters of Washington's Potomac river. "We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation," Washington Fire Chief John Donnelly told ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 15:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Vladimir Putin Russia crash plane Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday demanded that Russia admit that it fired at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet before it crashed, accusing Moscow of initially trying to cover up the cause of the fatal disaster. Aliyev made the accusation in an interview to state media at Baku airport four days after the AZAL Embraer 190 plane ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-29 15:16 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. A bird strike was cited by authorities as the likely cause of the crash, the worst ever aviation disaster on South Korean soil, which flung passengers out of the plane and ...