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2010-01-01 05:52:42 - Vehicle Accident - Bangladesh EDIS CODE: VI-20100101-24374-BGD
Date & Time: 2010-01-01 05:52:42 [UTC]
Area: Bangladesh, Dhaka Regio, Farīdpur District, Number of death person(s): 18
Number of Injured person(s): 56
Damage level: Heavy (Level 3)
Not confirmed information! Description: A speeding bus lost control and hit a tree before crashing into a canal in southwestern Bangladesh early Friday, killing 18 people and injuring dozens, police said. Rescuers recovered 14 bodies from the wreckage of the bus after it crashed in Faridpur district, local police chief Awlad Ali Fakir said. An additional four people died while being taken to hospital, he said. The area is 64 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of capital Dhaka. Fakir said 56 injured people were being treated in hospitals, some of them in serious condition. Authorities ordered an investigation into the accident, he said. Fatal road accidents, blamed on rash driving, faulty vehicles and lax rules, kill more than 5,000 people a year in Bangladesh, the government says.
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2010-01-01 05:41:31 - Vehicle Accident - Philippines EDIS CODE: VI-20100101-24373-PHL
Date & Time: 2010-01-01 05:41:31 [UTC]
Area: Philippines, Province of Cagayan, , Damage level: Moderate (Level 2)
Affected person(s): 22
Not confirmed information! Description: A South Korean cargo vessel sank off the coast of the northern Philippines, but all 22 crew members were able to abandon the ship, police said Friday. One of the 22 South Korean nationals was injured by the ship's propeller as they fled the cargo vessel Nam Yang 8 late Thursday, said Chief Superintendent Roberto Damian, a regional police director. Damian said the ship was carrying wet magnetite when it capsized off the coast of Claveria town in Cagayan province, 405 kilometres north of Manila. The accident occurred more than two hours after the ship left the nearby port of Aparri. 'The vessel leaned on its left side because of the unbalanced wet magnetite load,' Damian said. 'The boat capsized 30 minutes later.' The ship's crew members were able to board a lifeboat and reached a fishing port in the village of Taggat Norte in Claveria town before dawn Friday, he added. Damian said the injured South Korean was taken to a clinic for treatm.
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| Situation Update No. 2 Ref.no.: FL-20091231-24369-BRA
Situation Update No. 2
On 2010-01-01 at 05:35:12 [UTC]
Event: Flood
Location: Brazil State of Rio de Janeiro Baixada Fuminense Region
Number of Deads: 19 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 200 person(s)
Situation: At least 19 people have died in Brazil after flooding caused by heavy rain, the government-run news agency Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. The deaths occurred in Rio de Janeiro in coastal southeastern Brazil. Nine of the deaths occurred in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Nine people have been injured and 12 left homeless since the heavy rain started Wednesday, the news agency said, citing the nation's Civil Defense agency. A mudslide occurred in the city of Mage, located across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro. Six people were left homeless there, but no fatalities were reported. | | | | |
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2009-12-31 18:57:55 - Extreme Weather - Maldives EDIS CODE: ST-20091231-24372-MDV
Date & Time: 2009-12-31 18:57:55 [UTC]
Area: Maldives, , H.A. Dhidhoo, Event exciting : Lighting strike
Number of Injured person(s): 4
Damage level: Moderate (Level 2)
Not confirmed information! Description: Lightning has struck four children in H. A. Dhidhoo and injured them, during a thunderstorm. The four children were taken to H.A. Dhidhoo hospital and were given treatment for the injuries. Three of the children were discharged after being treated however, 1 child still remains under the care of the hospital due to the serious injuries caused due to the lightning incident. Dhidhoo Police Station reported that this incident happened when the 4 children (two under the age of 18 and two 18 years of age) were playing outside an abandoned house in Dhidhoo in the thick of the thunderstorm. Moreover, part of Dhidhoo lost electricity during the thunderstorm.
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| Situation Update No. 1 Ref.no.: FL-20091231-24369-BRA
Situation Update No. 1
On 2009-12-31 at 18:52:32 [UTC]
Event: Flood
Location: Brazil State of Rio de Janeiro Baixada Fuminense Region
Number of Deads: 18 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 200 person(s)
Situation: Heavy rains in the Rio de Janeiro area have triggered mudslides that have killed at least 18 people. Rio de Janeiro state's Office of Civil Defense says that more deaths are likely as more rains are expected. The deaths in the past 24 hours come as about 2 million people are preparing to gather along Copacabana beach to ring in the New Year. Officials said Thursday that most of the deaths occurred as shanties collapsed under mud or rain in the greater Rio de Janeiro city area, but some deaths have been reported in more sparsely populated areas. | | | | |
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2009-12-31 16:45:52 - Vehicle Accident - Taiwan EDIS CODE: VI-20091231-24371-TWN
Date & Time: 2009-12-31 16:45:52 [UTC]
Area: Taiwan, , Area of Hsinchu, Missing person(s): 6
Damage level: Heavy (Level 3)
Not confirmed information! Description: Six mainland fishermen on board went missing during a boat sinking in a sea area off Taiwan on Wednesday night, according to the local harbor bureau. According to the Taichung Harbor Bureau, the boat, with a gross tonnage of 290 tonnes, left the Pingtan island in southeastern Fujian Province on Wednesday. The boat sunk amid high waves and strong winds at about 11:00 p.m. Wednesday near the outer sea area of Hsinchu. The 13 people on board escaped in a life boat and a raft. On Thursday afternoon, seven were rescued and they were in no life danger. According to the local harbor bureau, the rescue was still under way for the other six missing people at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
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| Situation Update No. 13 Ref.no.: EH-20091217-24200-GBR
Situation Update No. 13
On 2009-12-31 at 16:34:28 [UTC]
Event: Epidemic Hazard
Location: United Kingdom Scotland Glasgow
Number of Deads: 3 person(s)
Number of Infected: 1 person(s)
Situation: A further heroin user in Glasgow has tested positive for anthrax. The man is said to be responding well to treatment at Monklands District General Hospital in Lanarkshire. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said this took the total number of confirmed anthrax-linked cases to six, which included three people who have died. The health board said they are continuing to investigate whether contaminated heroin or a contaminated cutting agent may be responsible. A spokesman for the health board said that two other confirmed patients, continue to respond well to treatment. They include a male at Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary and a male at Monklands District General Hospital in Lanarkshire. The health board is awaiting confirmation of results on a seventh patient, a woman, who is being treated for the infection at the Southern General.
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Dr Syed Ahmed, said: "Drug injecting is extremely risky and dangerous. "The possible presence of a batch of heroin contaminated with Anthrax makes drug injecting even riskier and even more dangerous. "I urge all drug injecting heroin users to be extremely alert and to seek urgent medical advice if they experienced an infection. "While this section of the community need to be on their guard the risk to the rest of the population - including close family members of the infected cases - is negligible. "It is extremely rare for anthrax to be spread from person to person and there is no significant risk of airborne transmission from one person to another." "As part of ongoing inquiries, any drug injecting heroin users who present with serious soft tissue infections now or during the last four weeks is being investigated". | | | | |
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2009-12-31 14:59:49 - Flood - Brazil EDIS CODE: FL-20091231-24369-BRA
Date & Time: 2009-12-31 14:59:49 [UTC]
Area: Brazil, State of Rio de Janeiro, Baixada Fuminense Region, '!!! WARNING !!! Number of death person(s): 11
Damage level: Heavy (Level 3)
Not confirmed information! Description: At least 11 people have died in Rio after 24 hours of heavy rains caused flooding and landslides. Civil defence commander Sergio Simoes said five family members, including one infant and two adolescents, were among the dead. In Baixada Fuminense, northern Rio, three rivers burst their banks, forcing 200 people to flee from their homes. Meteorologists forecast downpours to continue throughout the day, threatening New Year's Eve celebrations at the city's famed Copacabana Beach and elsewhere. The authorities have called for residents in at-risk areas to move to safety, even if it means abandoning their homes.
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| | December 31, 2009 01:29 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last week's failed plot to bomb a U.S. passenger jet has exposed lingering fissures within the U.S. intelligence community, which had information from interviews and clandestine intercepts but did not put the pieces together, officials said.
| | | | December 31, 2009 08:53 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan and killed eight CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the U.S. agency's largest death tolls, while four Canadian troops and a journalist died in a separate attack.
| | | | December 31, 2009 09:01 AM ET
 | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.
| | | | | December 31, 2009 09:05 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - Two French journalists have been kidnapped by insurgents northeast of the Afghan capital together with their translator and driver, a police official said on Thursday.
| | | | December 31, 2009 07:12 AM ET
 | HELSINKI (Reuters) - Four people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a Finnish shopping mall on Thursday, police said, in the country's third multiple shooting incident in as many years.
| | | | December 31, 2009 01:54 AM ET
 | HONOLULU (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was resting comfortably at a hospital in Hawaii on Wednesday after suffering chest pains, his website said.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:57 PM ET
 | THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Netherlands and Nigeria said on Wednesday they would use full-body scanners at airports after a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound plane by a 23-year-old Nigerian suspect who passed through both countries.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:57 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top executive at American International Group Inc has resigned because of pay curbs imposed by the Obama Administration's pay czar, the insurer said on Wednesday.
| | | | | December 31, 2009 09:06 AM ET
 | KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - If you recently tweeted about how you were chillaxin for the holiday, take note: Fifteen particularly over- or mis-used words and phrases have been declared "shovel-ready" to be "unfriended" by a U.S. university's annual list of terms that deserve to be banned.
| | | | | December 30, 2009 09:56 PM ET
 | CHICAGO (Reuters) - First it was pocket knives and nail clippers. Then it was shoes. Then liquids. Now the government may want a closer look at your underwear after a botched attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day.
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Plot exposes fissure in U.S. intelligence community
