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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — A light rail train has derailed in Hong Kong’s northern suburbs, injuring dozens of passengers. Police say 62 people were hurt, four seriously, in Friday’s accident. They were all sent to hospitals. There was no word on the cause. Passengers told local media that the train was moving quite fast and going around a bend at the time of the accident. The incident occurred on a public holiday, when there were likely more passengers than usual. After the accident, one carriage leaned off the tracks and a set of wheels appeared to be torn off. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sixty-two people were injured after a Light Rail Transit train derailed in Tin Shui Wai on Friday afternoon. At least three received serious injuries and were rushed to Tuen Mun Hospital. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Families of the victims in last October’s Lamma ferry tragedy made public a letter criticising Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and other officials for not taking their concerns seriously. The families said they did so because Leung had been “bureaucratic” in his reply to questions over government responsibility in the accident that killed 39 people on National Day. They had written to Leung and his justice minister Rimsky Yuen on May 8 asking them to give a “sincere, responsible and just” answer to calls for further action on the fatal accident. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least eight people were feared dead after a container ship smashed into a control tower in Italy’s busiest port in Genoa. The 50-metre high, glass-topped tower was destroyed when the Jolly Nero ploughed into the dock during the night. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nineteen Hong Kong tourists have been injured – two seriously – in a traffic accident in Guangxi province. The injured – eight men and 13 women – remained in a local hospital for treatment on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A taxi driver and his passenger escaped serious injury yesterday when a giant metal pipe fell from a construction site and crushed his car. The 12-metre pipe, 30cm in diameter, plunged from the Central-Wan Chai reclamation site onto the busy Island Eastern Corridor near Watson Road in North Point. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A blaze broke out in the wreckage of a Bangladesh factory block on Sunday, killing a woman whose 110-hour battle for survival had touched the nation following its worst industrial disaster, the country’s fire chief said. Earlier, the owner of the complex, property tycoon Sohel Rana, was detained as he attempted to cross into India and was flown back to Dhaka where he will face charges over the building’s collapse which has so far claimed 381 lives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> At least two people died and 10 were hurt on Sunday when part of an apartment block in the French city of Reims collapsed after a suspected gas blast. Firefighters were hunting for victims trapped under debris of the council estate building, where the extremity of a long strip of flats collapsed, taking around 10 apartments down. Local authorities said the “probable” cause of the accident at the four-storey building in the heart of the Champagne region was a gas explosion. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Chinese factory fishing ship that burned last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board, Chile’s navy said on Monday. The vessel Kai Xin caught fire and its 97 crew members were rescued by a Norwegian ship. Then it began to drift in unmanned and in flames, zigzagging dangerously close to glaciers. The Chilean navy said an official representing the ship’s owner confirmed that the vessel went down Sunday afternoon near Bransfield Strait at the Antarctic peninsula. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt resumed hot air balloon sightseeing in the ancient city of Luxor on Sunday, weeks after a fiery accident led authorities to halt the flights. Mohammed Ibrahim Sherif, head of the civil aviation authority, said the first hot air balloon was launched in the southern city after safety measures required by his office were implemented. He said five out of seven companies have been allowed to resume the flights. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hot air balloon flights resumed in Luxor on Sunday, nearly two months after a deadly accident killed 19 people, including nine Hong Kong tourists, Egyptian officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Quake victims reached out yesterday via mainland media with tears, sorrow and even a few smiles with reports of selfless deeds, successful rescues and at least one birth. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chan, 26, was driving along the Hoi Po Road flyover when she lost control of her car and hit into a kerb before crashing into a central divider. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US military said the CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter had “executed a hard landing” while on a routine flight operation in Cheolwon county, which touches on the border. The precise cause of the accident was not immediately known, the military said, adding that a “comprehensive investigation” had been ordered. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Lion Air plane carrying more than 100 passengers overshot a runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday and crashed into the sea, police said. Bali Police Chief Arif Wahyunadi told local TV One that all of the passengers and crew were evacuated from the plane and taken into the airport terminal for treatment. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A teachers’ union that is a licensed insurance seller will remind clients to read the exclusion clauses when buying travel policies, a senior officer says. The Professional Teachers’ Union was responding to criticism in the aftermath of a hot-air balloon accident in Luxor, Egypt, in February that killed nine Hongkongers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 11th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong police on Thursday charged two captains with manslaughter after a ferry collision last year that claimed 39 lives in the city’s worst maritime disaster in decades. The two men – Lai Sai-ming, the 54-year-old captain of the Sea Smootn, and Chow Chi-wau, the 56-year-old captain of the Lamma IV, were each charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and will appear in a magistrates’ court later in the day, police said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Zhou cancelled almost 10 discussion sessions and meetings scheduled at the forum because of the accident. He then appeared with a red and swollen face at a press conference yesterday marking the close of the forum. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a hillside in northern Thailand after its brakes failed, police said on Monday. Passengers said the coach had swerved several times on winding mountain roads, before it ploughed through a fence and down a steep ravine, according to local police in Phitsanulok province 380 kilometres from Bangkok. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fourteen people were injured – two seriously – during a pile-up involving six vehicles in Kwun Tong on Monday. The accident took place around noon at the crossroads of Lei Yue Mun Road and Tseung Kwan O Road, outside the Kwun Tong Police Station. Police said a concrete mixer truck first hit a taxi waiting at a red light, and then continued to travel towards the junction where it collided with four other vehicles. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Dozens hurt in Hong Kong train derailment
<!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG (AP) — A light rail train has derailed in Hong Kong’s northern suburbs, injuring dozens of passengers. Police say 62 people were hurt, four seriously, in Friday’s accident. They were all sent to hospitals. There was no word on the cause. Passengers told local media that the train was moving quite fast and going around a bend at the time of the accident. The incident occurred on a public holiday, when there were likely more passengers than usual. After the accident, one carriage leaned off the tracks and a set of wheels appeared to be torn off. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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