Several people have died and hundreds more are missing at a refugee camp full of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh.
The UN, aid groups and Rohingya leaders said the fences erected by the military hampered rescue work and caused injuries during Monday’s 12-hour blaze in the maze that killed at least 15 people and left nearly 50,000 homeless.
Authorities say at least five people have died in the fire that broke out on the ground floor of a hospital in Bucharest. The cause of the blaze still remains unknown.
A local governor reports that 53 people are dead and 29 others injured in Dsang, central-western Cameroon, when a bus collided with a fuel van.
Around 150 firefighters were expected to work overnight into Sunday to bring the 80-100 hectare blaze under control, says the Department of Fire and Emergency Services District.
A high-flow oxygen therapy machine used in the treatment of Covid-19 patients had exploded and caused a fire at a hospital in Turkey's Gaziantep.
Demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature erupted after the country's 2021 budget saw educational and health spending cuts.
The fire broke out in what appeared to be a restaurant that was located in an apartment in a residential building, officials said adding that the cause of the fire was still unknown.
The blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for Covid-19 patients at the public hospital in the city of Piatra Neamt.
Unprecedented wildfires and droughts are wreaking havoc in South America, especially in the region between Paraguay, Parana and Uruguay rivers.
The fires that began early morning on Sunday in the famed Napa-Sonoma wine country north of San Francisco came on the third anniversary of deadly wildfires that erupted in 2017, including one that killed 22 people.
As many as 400 witnesses gave statements in 171 hearings that spanned eight years after the deadly fire at a Karachi garment factory in which over 260 people lost their lives.
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