HATTIESBURG, Miss.—A third person has died as a result of a highway collapse in south Mississippi two weeks ago. Amanda Williams of Wiggins died Saturday after being hospitalized since the Aug. 30 collapse, WLOX-TV reports. The collapse on Highway 26 outside Lucedale in George County, which occurred during torrential rain brought by Hurricane Ida, caused…
Good Samaritan Sees Building Collapse, Climbs Into Rubble to Pull Elderly Couple out Alive
One Philadelphia man is thanking God for putting him in the right place at the right time after he pulled an elderly couple from a collapsed building in West Kensington. David Velazquez was driving with his cousin Kathy to pick up his son from a friend’s house on the night of Sept. 2. They were near…
Crash Victim Recalls Terror After Mississippi Road Collapse
LUCEDALE, Miss.—A teenager said she could hear the terrifying sounds of other vehicles crashing around—and on top of—the pickup truck where she and her mother were trapped after the truck plunged into a dark, muddy pit when a Mississippi highway collapsed during torrential rain brought by Hurricane Ida. “I saw a black hole, then I…
Claims That Internal Document Warned of Early Afghanistan Collapse ‘Wrong’: UK Foreign Office
The British Foreign Office has denied that an internal document, which painted a bleak picture of the situation in Afghanistan just weeks before the fall of Kabul, was at odds with its official position or intelligence-based assessments. Reports which suggest that the document warned of a faster-than-anticipated fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban are “wrong…
9 Dead After Crane Collapses in Kenya’s Capital: Police
NAIROBI, Kenya—Police in Kenya’s capital say nine people are dead after a crane collapsed at a high-rise construction site in Nairobi. Officer Muturi Mbogo said the crane collapsed midday Thursday while it was being dismantled by workers. He said another worker was seriously injured and the collapse is under investigation. A worker at the site,…
Body Camera Footage Shows Chaos, Confusion as Police Rushed to Scene of Collapsed Surfside Condo
Body camera footage released Tuesday shows police officers’ initial response to the Surfside, Florida, condominium collapse that left 98 dead. “There’s a lot of dust. I can barely see anything,” a Surfside Police officer said, video shows. “Is anybody there? This is huge. I mean, humongous. It’s gone. The whole back of the building is…
Video Released of Officers Responding to Condo Collapse
SURFSIDE—Officials in a Florida town released body camera footage Tuesday from the first police officers who responded to the collapse of a condo building that left 98 people dead. Officers in Surfside arrived just minutes after the east side of Champlain Tower South pancaked in the early morning hours of June 24. Each video lasts…
911 Recordings Show Panic, Disbelief When Florida Condo Fell
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium building collapsed in the middle of the night show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster. “Oh my God! The whole building collapsed!” one caller said to a dispatcher at the Miami-Dade Police Department, which released the recordings Wednesday from…
China Hotel Collapse Kills Eight; Rescuers Search for Nine Missing
SHANGHAI—Part of a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Suzhou killing eight people and rescue workers were searching on Tuesday for nine people missing in the ruins, state media reported. The collapse of part of the Siji Kaiyuan Hotel in the coastal city happened on Monday afternoon. The Ministry of Emergency Management sent a…
Search in Florida Collapse to Take Weeks, Deaths Reach 90
July 11, 2021
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SURFSIDE, Fla.—Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida said Sunday they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 90 deaths have now been confirmed in last month’s collapse of the 12-story…
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