53 people trapped after Chile volcano eruption
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Chilean military vehicles were en route on Wednesday to rescue 53 people trapped in a wilderness park after one of the country's largest volcanoes erupted, spewing ash and molten lava.
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Emergency exits at a nightclub packed with teenagers were padlocked or wired shut when a flare ignited the foam ceiling, sparking a blaze that killed 175 people and injured more than 700 in one of Argentina's worst disasters, survivors and officials said Friday.
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Thousands of Ecuadorean villagers have fled their homes on the slopes of the Tungurahua volcano since it began erupting lava and toxic gases, authorities said Saturday.
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A volcano erupts in southern Chile, leading to 150 people being evacuated from the vicinity.
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Hundreds of rescuers dug frantically Thursday to reach victims of an avalanche that swept down a Mexican mountainside and buried a bus carrying up to 60 passengers. Thirty-two bodies were recovered as hope waned of finding survivors.
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A fire at a Western Australian gold mine leaves 54 miners trapped underground, according to local media.
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Several people are trapped as the roof of an airport building on the island of Menorca collapses, Spanish reports say.
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A volcanic eruption on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain on Saturday caused panicked residents to flee homes and sent ash plumes 18 kilometres into the air.
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Tidal waves killed 53 people in Myanmar and flattened 17 seaside fishing villages, state media said.
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DESTRUCTION: At least 21 people have been killed by the quake, which has forced thousands to evacuate. Yesterday, many were readying to spend another chilly night outside.
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Rescuers on Thursday found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain s Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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By 1 pm on Sunday, 123 miners were rescued alive after a major gas explosion took place at the Chenjiashan Coalmine, Shaanxi Province, around 7:10 am but another 170 remained trapped underground.
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MADRID: Some 70,000 people have been forced to evacuate Real Madrid&#39;s Santiago Bernabeu stadium minutes before the end of a league match after a bomb threat in the name of ETA Basque separatist guerrillas.
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MOSCOW -- A fire broke out in a women's ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital early today, killing 42 people who were trapped by a locked gate and barred windows, officials said.
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Rescuers found 13 bodies and at least four people suffering from severe hypothermia in a boat that was towed to this island in Spain's Canary archipelago, emergency services officials said.
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Around 50,000 people are evacuated from eastern Comilla district after a dam bursts on a rain-swollen river.
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Dozens of people are trapped in a building in south-western China after it collapsed, officials say.