Rescue Workers

Joy, disbelief as relatives embrace rescued Bangladesh factory worker

Reuters | Saturday May 11, 2013

As hope faded of finding any more survivors of Bangladesh's factory collapse, Reshma Begum's family cherished one modest prayer: that hers would be the next body to be excavated from the rubble so they could at least give her a decent burial.

Woman rescued in Bangladesh rubble 2 weeks after collapse

Julfikar Ali Manik and Jim Yardley, The New York Times | Friday May 10, 2013

In a startling development, a woman trapped for 17 days beneath the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building was discovered alive Friday and then rushed to a nearby military hospital after rescuers pulled her free.

Two confirmed dead in Norway bridge collapse

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 9, 2013

Rescue workers on Thursday pulled a second body from the rubble of an under-construction bridge that collapsed in central Norway a day earlier, police said.

No more survivors likely in Bangladesh tragedy

Associated Press | Monday April 29, 2013

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hopes of finding any more survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago, and began using heavy machinery to remove the rubble and look for bodies, an official said on Monday.

Bangladesh building collapse death toll nears 350, six arrested

Associated Press | Sunday April 28, 2013

Police in Bangladesh took six people into custody in connection with the collapse of a shoddily-constructed building that killed at least 348 people, as rescue workers admitted on Saturday that voices of survivors are getting weaker after four days o...

Bangladesh building collapse: toll crosses 300, garment workers protest

Agence France-Presse | Friday April 26, 2013

Bangladeshi police battled today to control huge crowds of garment workers angrily protesting the death of more than 300 colleagues in a collapsed building as rescue efforts stretched into a third day.

Death toll in Bangladesh building collapse crosses 250, more than 40 rescued alive

Reuters | Thursday April 25, 2013

Employees at a garment factory that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 251 people were told to work despite warnings it was unsafe, officials said on Thursday as an unknown number of the more than 3,000 workers remained trapped in the rubble.

Up to 15 people killed, over 160 injured in Texas explosion: police

Associated Press | Thursday April 18, 2013

Rescue workers searched rubble that witnesses compared to a warzone early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smo...

Thane building collapse: 58 dead, deputy commissioner of civic body suspended

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Friday April 5, 2013

Fifty eight people have died, over 60 are injured, and 20 people are still missing as rescue workers continue to cut through the mangled steel and concrete remains of a seven-storey building which collapsed on Thursday evening in Mumbai suburb Thane....

30 dead as illegal building collapses in Thane, many feared trapped

Reported by Saurabh Gupta, Rashmi Rajput, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Friday April 5, 2013

The death toll in the collapse of an illegal building that was under construction in Thane near Mumbai has risen to 30. About 50 people are injured and rescue workers say five to eight people could still be trapped in the debris.

59 bodies recovered from Tibet gold mine: report

Reuters | Tuesday April 2, 2013

Rescue teams have found 59 dead bodies at the site of a massive landslide in Tibet and two dozen more workers are still feared buried in the rubble, Chinese state media said on Tuesday.

Polish workers rescued after mine collapse

Reuters | Wednesday March 20, 2013

19 miners were pulled alive and well from a copper mine in southern Poland on Wednesday after a small earthquake trapped them 600 metres below the surface late the previous night.

Nine dead in Russian coal mine blast: ministry

Agence France-Presse | Monday February 11, 2013

The bodies of nine miners have been found by rescue workers after a blast tore through a mine in the Komi region in Russia's Far North on Monday, an emergencies ministry spokeswoman said.

Under-construction bridge collapses in Mumbai, three killed

Mid-Day.com | Friday February 8, 2013

A 35-metre concrete girder, which was part of the Sahar Elevated Road collapsed, around 11.30 pm last night while the workers were carrying out concretisation work. According to fire officials, three bodies were removed and five people have been resc...

Three bodies found at Mexico Pemex blast site, toll reaches 36

Reuters | Monday February 4, 2013

Mexican rescue workers found three more bodies over the weekend amid the rubble of a deadly blast that tore through state oil firm Pemex's main office complex, the government said, as search efforts appeared to near a close.