INCOIS activated its Search and Rescue Aid Tool (SARAT) to track possible drift patterns of containers, debris, or people who may have gone overboard
Police could not immediately confirm the number of injuries or deaths but Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters about 25 people were believed to have been killed, without elaborating
Fourteen workers were injured when a fire broke out at a jewellery manufacturing unit in Gujarat's Surat city on Tuesday, officials said.
A major fire and explosion ripped through a pharma unit here on Wednesday leaving 17 people dead and 33 injured. The damage could have been worse but due to lunchtime fewer workers were in the plant when the accident occurred. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, will visit the site on Aug 22 and, has ordered a high-level enquiry into the incident, promising stringent action against the management in case of negligence.
At least three fire tenders were called into action to put out the fire
He noted that talks about how to distribute the compensation were currently underway with the Embassies
Five of the injured with serious burn injuries were taken to nearby hospitals after the fire broke out in the district's Rai industrial area in the evening, they said
A notification released by the government stated that Raju Bhargava the commissioner of Rajkot city has been transferred without posting and will be replaced by Brijesh Kumar Jha, special commissioner of Ahmedabad city sector-2.
A total of seven people, including five men and two women, were rescued from the fire that broke out on the third floor of the building.
As soon as the Yoga Express, which was going from Ahmedabad in Gujarat to Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, reached the Iqbalpur railway station, a fire was noticed in the lower portion of one of its coaches, police said.
The Danish Chamber of Commerce, which has owned the building since 1857, has worked on restoring it to the style of Denmark's King Christian IV, who had the building constructed in the 17th century
The blaze in the building on AB Road started in a restaurant on the fifth floor and later spread to some offices on the fourth floor, Superintendent of Police (Fire Brigade) Shashikant Kanakne said.
All the students have been rescued from the building, circle inspector at Kunhari police station Arvind Bhardwaj said.
State fire minister Sujit Bose said that robots will be deployed wherever fire tenders are unable to access the spot.
At least eight people were injured, seven of them hospitalised in serious condition, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported
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The rescue operation was carried out by Fire Brigade personnel on the second floor and the terrace of Options Commercial Centre, located near the Milan subway, via the staircase. "
Expressing anguish over the accident, the Chief Minister conveyed his heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the bereaved families.
The blaze swept through the Central Exhibition Hall on Sunday in the city of Sukhumi, where the gallery was located on the second floor of a building. The cause of the fire has not been determined.
The fire that broke out at around 7 am on the second floor engulfed the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the shopping mall, but it was not clear what caused it.
The building has refuge areas on the eighth, 15th and 22nd floors, but the number of residents in the building is large and some people have kept household goods in the refuge area which hindered movement, said another resident.
Though no injuries were reported, fire brigade officials rescued five persons stranded on an adjacent two-storey structure, he added.
There was no report of any casualty as of now, Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava said.
A fire official said since the lanes of the area are congested, it was a challenge for the fire tenders to reach the site.
"At 07.10 am smoke in B1 and B2 coaches was noticed. Immediately a message was given to the fire brigade. Fire brigade arrived by 7.35 am and extinguished the fire," the Chief Public Relation Officer of South Western Railway Anish Hegde said in a statement.