Copters Rescue 57 Trapped by Landslides
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More than 50 people were rescued by two military helicopters Wednesday after landslides caused by heavy rains trapped their vehicles on a highway in Scotland, police said.
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At least 300 people have died, and another 150 are missing, in floods and landslides unleashed by a storm which struck the northern Philippines.
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Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 114 persons and left over 77 others missing in south-west China with the army being deployed to rescue thousands of marooned people, local officials said today.
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Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China&#39;s southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
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Â·  Chaos as rescue teams rush to save villagers Â·  More than sixty now dead despite mass evacuation
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 573 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.    The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, according to Touissant Kong-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Rescuers who pulled six  bodies from the mud and debris of a huge southern California  landslide said on Tuesday that 13 people might still be trapped  under the rubble.
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Rescue helicopters airlift 37 passengers from stranded yacht Romance off the north-east coast of Australia
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A plane carrying 59 people skidded off a wet runway and into the Caribbean Sea in Colombia, causing minor injuries to seven, aviation officials said.
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At least 36 people are reported to have died in landslides in Indonesia, after hours of heavy rain.
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Taiwan rescue workers dug out seven  bodies from mud and rock in a mountain village that was hit by  a devastating landslide triggered by Typhoon Aere, but eight  still remained buried, officials said on Friday.
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At least 120 people are reported dead or missing in Indonesia, as rescuers try to reach victims of  landslides.
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TOKYO -- Rescue workers airlifted residents out of isolated villages and sifted through wreckage for earthquake survivors yesterday, a day after a series of strong temblors hit northwest Japan, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than 1,500.
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Most of the rescue workers searching for survivors were sent home Monday night because of fears that continued rains could cause another slide.
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Recovery operations at a landslide in southwest China which left at least 23 dead and scores missing have resumed as nearby coal mines were shut for investigations into their possible role in the disaster.
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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 senior Chinese official charged Monday that illegal operations by a northern China coal mine led to an accident that has trapped as many as 57 miners, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.