China fire kills 17 migrant workers: reports
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At least 17 migrant workers died early on Sunday as fire raged through their sleeping quarters in China's southeastern province of Zhejiang, Chinese media said.
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BEIJING - Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 14 people in southern China and forced 20,000 from their homes, a state news agency reported Sunday.
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Three firefighters were killed battling a spectacular blaze that engulfed a 12-storey shopping and office complex in western China, state media said Thursday.
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The death toll in the five iron mines that caught fire Saturday morning in Shahe City in north China&#39;s Hebei Province has risen to 57, said an official with the leading group in charge of the rescue operation.
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A gas explosion Sunday killed 17 people  and injured at least 40 others when a residential block  collapsed in eastern Algeria, local authorities said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A speeding bus packed with passengers fell into a deep ravine in eastern Pakistan early Saturday, killing 17 people and injuring 30, police and hospital officials said.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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BEIJING: All the coal miners trapped after a gas explosion in a shaft in norther China are dead, bringing the toll to 166 in one of the worst disasters to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry, state media said yesterday.
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Beijing, Nov 22 : The death toll in a deadly fire in five connected iron ore mines in northern China went up to 57 while three others were missing, state media reported.
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BEIJING Eight miners have been killed in a fire that broke out in a complex of iron mines in northern China. State media says Chinese rescuers are struggling to find 79 more miners still trapped.
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A gas explosion that tore through a coal mine in central China trapped 166 workers in underground shafts filled with noxious smoke in the latest and apparently the deadliest of a
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Some 34 people die in a fire at an illegal shoe factory in eastern China's Fujian province, state media reports.
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Four workers are dead and 16 are missing after a fire at a mine in central China, as rescuers continued efforts to reach 36 miners unaccounted for after a flood in the country's southwest.
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A huge fire has swept through a copper mine in northern killing at least 19 workers and injuring another 17 according to local officials.
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A speeding bus packed with passengers fell into a deep ravine in eastern Pakistan early Saturday, killing 17 people and injuring 30, police and hospital officials said.
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SHAHE, CHINA - Nine people were confirmed dead and 57 remained missing late Sunday after a fire swept through five iron ore mines in northern China, the Xinhau news agency said.
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At least 49 miners were confirmed dead and 11 missing following a massive blaze at a complex of iron mines in northern China, the government reported Monday.