Many die in Nigeria dam collapse
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Some 40 people are feared dead in northern Nigeria after a dam collapsed following torrential rain.
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A bridge under construction in south Vietnam has collapsed, killing at least 36 workers, officials say.
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UTHAL, Pakistan  - Troops and rescue workers used fishing nets Saturday to pull bodies from floodwaters after a dam burst in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 135 people, officials said. Elsewhere in Pakistan, weeklong rains and avalanches claimed the lives of about 143 people, emergency officials said.
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Nigerian police said on Friday dozens of  people had been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the  commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning.
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LAGOS : The death toll from an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Lagos has risen to around 60 as more bodies were recovered from the scene.
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A Japanese-funded bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed on Wednesday, killing up to 60 workers and injuring around 150 in the country's worst such disaster.
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One hostage was killed and another injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers kidnapped by armed men in southern Nigeria, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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Heavy flooding in Somalia killed at least seven people overnight, bringing the death toll to 80 from three weeks of torrential rains, witnesses and aid workers have said.
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A family of six was killed when a house collapsed in Indian Kashmir as monsoon rains closed highways and the Jhelum River breached its banks, officials said.
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More than a million people across a swathe of 17 African countries are  suffering the effects of severe floods.
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Dozens of people are feared dead after a fuel tanker explodes on a busy road in southern Nigeria's oil region.
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At least eight people were killed after a wall collapsed at a building site at Dubai airport today. Workers said they saw up to 40 casualties being taken from the scene of the collapse, with some people reported to be trapped under the debris.
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At least 34 people died when a ruptured gasoline pipeline exploded in Nigeria, engulfing scores of people scooping fuel from the gushing leak, police said Wednesday.
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Rescue workers try to find survivors after a building under construction collapses in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
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At least 17 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo when a passenger ferry sank on Lake Tanganyika, but around 120 people survived, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Ten people have died in house collapses caused by heavy monsoon rains in Indian Kashmir as army and police said they are attempting to rescue thousands trapped by flood waters.
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Flooding devastates large swathes of east and west Africa, leaving dozens dead and thousands homeless.