For years Canadian cities and towns pleaded for investment in crumbling roads and bridges. Michel Beaupre and his wife Nicole saw what happens when they don’t get it.
They were driving from Montreal north to Laval, Que. just after noon on Sept. 30, 2006, and were approaching the de la Concorde overpass when its supports gave way and the entire southern section collapsed onto the highway.
Beaupre managed to stop just short of the angry tangle of exhausted concrete and steel across the highway. Five people were killed, including a 28-year-old pregnant woman and her husband.
HANGZHOU, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — Eight people have been confirmed dead in a collapsed subway tunnel here in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province after another body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon, a local official said.
Four sniffer dogs and more than 400 rescuers are still searching for 13 others, whose hope to survive is very slim after being trapped for more than 72 hours, said Cai Qi, mayor of Hangzhou.
A 75-m section of a subway tunnel under construction collapsed Saturday afternoon. Besides those dead or missing, 24 others were injured.
Thirty-two of 34 workers trapped in the flooding of a central China mine have been rescued, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.
One worker died, and the last was missing, Xinhua said. The rescued workers were rushed to a hospital and were in “poor” condition, according to the news agency.
The mine in Pingdingshan, a city in Henan province, flooded Monday, according to China’s State Administration of Work Safety. Forty-two miners were working in the mine at the time; eight escaped, according to Xinhua.
A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.
BEIJING, China (CNN) — A subway collapse in eastern China over the weekend killed at least four people and left 17 others missing, state-run media reported Monday.
The search continues for the missing, who are believed to be trapped in the construction site in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, Xinhua news agency reported.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — A Port-au-Prince school partly collapsed Wednesday days after more than 90 were killed in another school cave-in, sparking a panic among parents of children in other risky schools and street protests over dangerous buildings.
Nine people were injured when walls at the small Grace Divine school in central Port-au-Prince partly gave way and the ceiling began to fall in, police said.
Students at the school, attended by about 100 pupils aged five to 12, were in the recreation yard when it happened, police said.
At least 28 people were killed, including women and schoolgirls, and dozens wounded in a triple bombing in a Baghdad market on Monday, the deadliest attack to rock the Iraqi capital in months, security officials said.
The attackers detonated a car bomb in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, then minutes later a suicide bomber ran into the resulting melee and blew up, according to defence and interior ministry officials.
A third explosion caused by a roadside bomb around 30 metres (yards) from the first two blasts tore through the market moments later, according to an Iraqi police officer who was on the street when the attack took place.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors on Sunday and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed, officials said.
PETIONVILLE, Haiti – Haitian police on Sunday were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and setting off a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.
Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse in suburban Port-au-Prince, was arrested late Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter, said police spokesman Garry Desrosier.
Augustin was being held at a police station in Haiti’s capital, while a U.S. rescue crew searched overnight for survivors of Friday’s collapse of the three-story building, which normally holds 500 students and teachers.
A hillside school operated by a church, in which about 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed Friday during classes, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more.
Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage.
