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| Disasters: Thai plane crash in Phuket kills 88 |
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PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - A budget airliner crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Sunday, killing 88 people as it broke up and burst into flames while trying to land in driving rain, a senior official said.
Forty two people were injured, Phuket deputy governor Vorapot Rajsima told a news conference, and a hospital official said at least five of the survivors were seriously hurt.
Flight manifests at Phuket airport suggested well over half the 123 passengers on the flight from the Thai capital were foreign and an Airports of Thailand official in Bangkok said most of the foreigners were European holidaymakers.
There were seven crew members on board. Earlier reports had said there were five.
Eight Britons, eight Thais, five Germans and two Australians were among 42 known survivors, hospital workers said.
"The plane looks as though it veered off the runway into the side of a hill," said Leslie Quahe, a Singaporean pastor who arrived at the scene about an hour after the crash.
"I was coming down the hill and saw smoke coming from the plane. It had broken into several parts," Quahe told Reuters.
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| Disasters: Floods, mudslides still feared after Hurricane Felix |
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At least three people are dead after Hurricane Felix landed in Central America, tearing into Nicaragua before weakening into a tropical storm that is expected to continue dumping rain on the region Wednesday.
Tropical storm Felix is forecast to drop up to 63 centimetres of rain on parts of Nicaragua and Honduras, officials said Wednesday, triggering fears of flooding and mudslides in areas where shantytowns cling precariously to hillsides. Warnings have also been issued for parts of El Salvador.
Felix, which made history as the second top-scale hurricane to touch land in the same season following the arrival of Hurricane Dean last month, slammed into northeastern Nicaragua Tuesday morning at full strength, bringing with it winds of up to 260 km/h and torrential rain.
The Category 5 storm was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane as it moved inland, with winds dropping to 195 km/h. Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center reclassified Felix as a tropical storm by nightfall.
At least three people are dead across Central America. |
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| Disasters: Fire injures 16 at Mandarin Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand |
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BANGKOK, Sept 5 (TNA) - Sixteen people, including 14 foreigners, were injured in the fire at Mandarin Hotel on busy Rama IV Road between Hualumpong Railway Station and Sam Yan intersection on Tuesday night.
According to the Narenthorn Centre, the emergency EMS centre of the Ministry of Public Health, 16 persons were injured in the incident. Eight persons, all foreigners, remain in hospital and eight others, including six foreign tourists, were discharged after treatment.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has declared the area as a danger area and outsiders may not enter without official permission.
Tuesday night's fire broke out in the hotel's second-floor kitchen, which is under renovation. The facility has 14 storeys. |
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| Disasters: Hurricane Felix lines up for hit on Honduras vacation area. |
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LA CIEBA, Honduras (CNN) -- Felix weakened to a Category 4 hurricane Monday, but remained powerful as it barreled toward Central America where it's expected hit along the Nicaragua-Honduras border early Tuesday.
Felix is expected to impact prime Honduran real estate along the coast when it makes landfall. The region is home to hotels and expensive vacation homes. Across the border in Nicaragua, the coastal region is sparsely populated.
Nicaragua issued a hurricane warning from Puerto Cabezas north to its border with Honduras, and a hurricane warning remains in effect in Honduras from the border west to Limon.
A warning means that hurricane conditions -- including sustained winds of 74 mph or higher -- are expected within 24 hours.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center have said both countries could receive 5 to 8 inches of rain, with isolated amounts of up to a foot of rain possible. Felix could also bring storm surge flooding of more than 18 feet above normal tide levels. |
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