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Young Danish women killed in Laos methanol poisoning are identified as death toll rises to six – as heartbreaking photograph of South East Asia trip emerges

Over the past few weeks, Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, had been on a trip of a lifetime backpacking across South East Asia. Photos posted online show the two young Danish women sightseeing in Cambodia and motorcycling around Vietnam as they made new friends and partied into the night.  But their […]

Trucking industry on R5bn losses, Lebombo border remains guarded as death toll rises in Mozambique post-election protests

While police turned to rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people, some live rounds were allegedly still used to kill some protesters on Thursday 07 November 2024 – 21:43 By Rorisang Kgosana and Ernest Mabuza More police and members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) are on standby at the Lebombo port of […]

Spain mounts biggest peacetime disaster recovery operation as death toll reaches 214

Alfafar, Spain, November 2, 2024. REUTERS/Susana Vera By Susana Vera and Guillermo Martinez VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) -The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 214 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. In […]

LATEST: Spanish floods death toll climbs to 211 as PM mobilises 10,000 troops

Hopes of finding survivors more than three days after torrents of muddy water submerged towns and wrecked infrastructure were slim in the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades. Almost all the deaths have been recorded in the eastern Valencia region, where thousands of security and emergency services personnel were frantically clearing debris and mud […]