Snow avalanche kills 16 in Tajikistan, more trapped
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An avalanche killed at least 16 people in the mountains of Tajikistan on Saturday while more people remained trapped under snow, an Interior Ministry official said.
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An avalanche on a road linking the Tajik capital Dushanbe with the second city kills 16 people, police say.
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An avalanche in central Russia on Monday  killed at least four children and seriously injured nine  others, RIA news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's  emergency ministry as saying.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed 16 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 in an ambush Sunday in the mountainous southeast of the country, security sources said.
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At least 20 people are killed and 10 reported missing after heavy snows in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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Sixteen Afghan civilians were killed and 25 others wounded in the aftermath of a suicide attack and ambush on a coalition military convoy in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, a joint forces military statement said.
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ABOVE SHAPIRI GHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan  authorities said they would begin moving on Monday remains of  104 victims from a crashed airliner off the snow-topped  mountain near Kabul where they have lain for 11 days.
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Sixteen civilians were killed in eastern Afghanistan Sunday when a US convoy was ambushed and troops returned fire, the US-led coalition said, as the government said the soldiers killed 10 people.
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Mudslides and floods caused by  torrential rains, and lightning strikes in southwestern China&#39;s  Sichuan province have killed 43 people and left many homeless  over the past week, the Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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The big snows that pummeled the Cascade Range recently have made this one of the deadliest avalanche seasons on record in Washington.
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Fifteen people have been killed in  southwest China in a 16-hour thunder storm that caused serious  flooding and brought air, road and rail traffic to a halt,  state media said on Wednesday.
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KHOST, Tajikistan  - Every spring meltwater dislodges bomblets in the mountains and sends them down steep gulleys towards inhabited areas.
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Two people &#151; a snowmobiler and a snowboarder &#151; were killed in separate avalanches in central Utah, authorities said.
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A train and a minibus collide in the capital of Tajikistan, killing nine people and seriously injuring three.
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At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistanâs capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.
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Avalanches triggered by the worst snowfall in years killed 22 people and left 15 missing in Indian Kashmir, police said on Saturday, as hundreds of stranded people were evacuated.