A woman was injured when she was struck by a light rail train and became trapped under the vehicle in Hong Kong on Saturday evening. Police said the incident occurred at the MTR Light Rail Depot stop in Tuen Mun at around 6pm. The train was travelling in the direction of Yuen Long. According to…
A Hong Kong rescue team received a hero’s welcome upon its return to the city on Wednesday night after spending 11 days in earthquake-stricken Myanmar searching for survivors. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and the top Myanmese diplomat in Hong Kong joined a welcome ceremony at Hong Kong airport, along with family members of the…
A Hong Kong rescue team has continued the search for survivors in the earthquake-stricken city of Mandalay in Myanmar as part of an overnight mission. As of 8.30am on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Security Bureau said rescuers were still continuing their mission near the Mandalay Palace with search and blasting tools, in an operation…
Serious questions have emerged over the tragedy still playing out on a construction site in Thailand’s capital four days after an earthquake in neighboring Myanmar rattled the metropolis. A 30-story skyscraper that had been under construction was the only tower in Bangkok that completely failed to withstand Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake and the ongoing aftershocks. It was…
A Hong Kong hiker has died after falling down a five-metre (16-foot) slope in Fanling. Police received a report at 9.24am on Sunday about a hiker who had collapsed and lost consciousness on Wu Tip Shan Road close to Fung Ying Seen Koon, a Taoist temple. The man in his sixties was rescued and rushed…
Teen rescued after being trapped in rock crevice for hours – CBS News Watch CBS News A 15-year-old boy was trapped for hours after falling into a narrow rock crevice in Southern California. Elise Preston reports on the effort to free the teen and spoke to the San Bernardino first responders who helped pull him…
An 18-year-old man has been successfully rescued after being lost for 10 days in the frigid, mountainous terrain of northwestern China. During the harrowing period when he faced food shortages, Sun Liang managed to survive on river water, melted snow, and even toothpaste, as reported by Jimu News. Sun began his solo hiking adventure on…
A father and his 12-year-old son were safely pulled from a narrow cliff ledge in southwestern Utah after getting lost and surviving off the contents of a backpack left behind by a previous hiker — and the dramatic rescue was captured on video. The two were trapped overnight in Snow Canyon State Park last week,…
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation on Friday denied that staff had refused to lend an automated external defibrillator (AED) to help a 62-year-old man who had collapsed outside a railway station and later died. Police said officers were alerted at 3.07pm last Friday to an incident involving a man who had passed out outside Tsuen Wan…
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has rejected allegations that it refused to lend an automated external defibrillator to help rescue a 62-year-old man who died after collapsing outside a station. Police said officers were alerted at 3.07pm last Friday to an incident involving a man passing out outside the MTR Tsuen Wan West Station. The 62-year-old,…