Feared dam collapse victims found alive in Nigeria
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All but one of 40 people feared to have drowned in torrential flooding in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state have been found alive and well.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Nigerian troops found the corpse of a man believed to be a foreign hostage floating in a creek on Saturday near a village where five people died in fighting this week, a military spokesman said.
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Up to 85 people are feared dead after a boat capsized off the Cameroon coast on its way to Nigeria.
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Thousands are affected by flooding in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, with at least 21 people dead.
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At least 50 people were killed and hundreds missing in Pakistan after a dam burst and swept whole villages into the sea, officials said, as the death toll from a week of record rains hit 112.
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An elderly Sri Lankan man was found  alive under the debris of a southern town nearly two weeks  after it was decimated by giant tsunami waves, a newspaper  reported on Sunday.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - An elderly Sri Lankan man was  miraculously found alive in the ruins of a building devastated  by the killer tsunami two weeks ago, haggard and dehydrated but  semi-conscious, local media said on Sunday.
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Divers and ground rescuers scoured an icy river and its banks in west Nepal on Thursday for 30 people still missing after a suspension bridge collapsed, leaving at least 16 dead and 80 others injured, officials said.
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Rescuers say a man and woman found dead in a cave in North Yorkshire were trapped by rising water.
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Among the bodies of victims and debris left when a killer tsunami slammed into the Sri Lankan coast, rescuers found a baby still alive.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers were frantically digging for more survivors after four people, including a toddler, were pulled alive from a building crushed by a landslide 11 days ago.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped  Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates  were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an  unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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A Sumatran fisherman was discovered barely alive under his beached boat Sunday &#151; the first survivor found in three days &#151; but with tens of thousands still missing in crushed seaside settlements and in the flotsam washing the shores of the Indian Ocean rescuers turned full attention to getting food and water to the living.
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A three-story bank under construction collapsed in the main Nigerian city of Lagos, and two people were unaccounted for and believed trapped inside the rubble, rescue workers said Tuesday.
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More than a dozen British teachers feared caught up in the flood-ravaged southern area of Sri Lanka are safe and well, it was confirmed tonight.
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Rescuers in Southwestern Bulgaria said Tuesday they have found the dead bodies of two lumber-jacks, who were missing since a timber-laden truck plunged into a swollen river last Sunday.