A major earthquake that hit Kumamoto in southwestern Japan on Tuesday has a death toll of 34 now, and has left at least 86 civilians injured, as thousands of survivors across the region are left with no electricity or water supply in the rising heat. A man helps clean the damaged gate of Jofukuji Buddhist…
Rescuers on Saturday evening found five survivors, including a 7-year-old girl, from a passenger boat that sank earlier in the week in eastern Indonesia waters and were searching for 20 other people still missing. The Makassar Search and Rescue Office previously reported that the boat was carrying 74 people when it departed from Jampea Island,…
The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for across the region. A bridge damaged by flash floods is seen in Bener Meriah district, Aceh province in Indonesia…