Tulsa: A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour (320 kph) tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, ripping up at least two schools and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 US states.
Television video showed tracts of homes destroyed, cars tossed about and piled atop one another, and at least one building on fire. Rescue workers were pulling third-graders from a severely damaged elementary school in Moore, a KFOR television reporter said from the scene, and aerial video showed first responders sifting through the rubble left behind.
"I have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes here in Oklahoma City. This is without question the most horrific," said Lance West, a reporter for KFOR.
The National Weather Service assigned the twister a preliminary ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning the second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph)....
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04:48 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A major fire broke out at the National Buildings Construction Corporation early on Monday morning. The fourth floor of the building has been gutted completely. According to the reports, 15-20 fire engines were rushed to the spot. There were no reports of casualties so far. The cause of the fire is not known yet. The fire is now under control. ...
10:28 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A massive fire broke out near a Nizamuddin petrol station in Delhi on Sunday. According to the reports, five fire engines have been rushed to the spot. There were no reports of casualties so far. Efforts were on to bring the fire under control. More details awaited ...
11:13 AM, May 19, 2013
Moscow: Part of an airliner carrying more than 130 people caught fire as it was landing in Moscow, and passengers evacuated the plane by jumping off one of its wings and shooting down an evacuation slide. The Emergencies Ministry says none of the passengers and crew members were injured by the fire on the landing gear of the Boeing 737 at Vnukovo Airport on Saturday. A ministry statement said the...
06:32 AM, May 19, 2013
Ahmedabad: City police on Thursday registered an attempt to murder case against three men including two brothers for allegedly trying to burn a man alive. Harshwardhan Shah, the complainant, alleged that brothers Parag and Devang Dave, along with another unidentified man, accosted him near his house in Isanpur area late Wednesday night, and had a quarrel with him over the will of Daves' aunt. Following this, they allegedly set him...
01:15 AM, May 17, 2013
Washington: Police have released video surveillance of a suspect wanted in the Mother's Day parade shooting in New Orleans, the largest city in Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal's state of Louisiana, injuring at least 19 people. The footage shows still images taken from the scene of the parade minutes before and after the shooting, including footage of one of the three suspects involved, according to local Nola.com. The grainy surveillance...
05:27 AM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: Facebook users, especially those accessing the service on Chrome and Firefox browsers, here's something that you ought to take note of. On its Technet blog, Microsoft has revealed that it has received reports about a wave of malware-ridden browser extensions attempting to hijack Facebook profiles. This threat, which they have detected as Trojan:JS/Febipos.A., was first discovered in Brazil. It has been found to be specifically targeting Chrome and Mozilla...
12:13 PM, May 13, 2013
United States: At least 19 people, including two children, have been wounded in New Orleans as gunmen opened fired on crowds taking part in a Mother's Day parade. Police say the shotting took place from different guns and three suspects were seen. No arrests have been made so far. The shooting shattered the festive mood surrounding the parade that drew hundreds of people to the 7th Ward neighborhood of modest...
07:30 AM, May 13, 2013
Dhaka: A major fire at a garment factory in Dhaka killed its managing director, a top police official and six others, officials said on Thursday. Fire service officials said managing director of the Tung Hai Sweater factory Mahbubur Rahman and his friend Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police ZA Morshed were among the dead as the fire broke out on several floors of the 11-story building housing the factory and...
09:55 AM, May 09, 2013
Jamnagar: A 30-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly killing her toddler son by setting him ablaze at her residence on Wednesday, apparently following a dispute with her husband, police said. "Vandana, wife of one Kishore Vadgama who is a carpenter by profession, today burnt her two-year-old son Raunak alive, after dousing him with kerosene," they said. The incident took place this morning at Vambay Awaas Yojana, where the couple is...
12:35 AM, May 09, 2013
Srinagar: An infiltration attempt was foiled in the Samba area around Jammu border on Tuesday morning. Gunfire was reportedly exchanged between infiltrators and security personnel for 30 minutes. A string of clashes along the 742-km LoC last month marked the worst violations of ceasefire that was put in place by India and Pakistan in late 2003. ...
08:44 AM, May 07, 2013
Sangrur: Several persons, including six police personnel, were injured after a protest by university students on Monday turned violent as agitators ransacked and set ablaze several vehicles and a portion of the varsity's building. Students of deemed university Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology in Longowal city in Sangrur ransacked the administrative block and smashed window panes of several vehicles, including the institute director's car. The students smashed about...
12:25 AM, May 07, 2013
A bride-to-be and four of her friends died after their Limousine caught fire in California. According to the Highway Patrol, the white stretch Lincoln was carrying members of a bachelorette party. The driver and 4 others got out uninjured. They are being treated for smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is under investigation. ...
10:10 AM, May 06, 2013
Mumbai: A minor fire broke out in a chawl at Khetwadi near Gol Deval temple, Grant Road on Saturday night. Eight fire engines and four ambulances also at the spot. There are no reports of casualties or injuries yet. More details are awaited. ...
11:34 PM, May 04, 2013
Balasore: A fire broke out in Chandipur's ammunition depot in Odisha early Monday morning. The fire broke out at 4 am in the ammunition testing centre of the Proof and Experimental Establishment or PXE. "The fire triggered explosions as it erupted in the magazine store of the Proof and Experimental Establishment (PXE) where shells and ammunition of different capacities and sizes are stored for test," Officer In-Charge of Chandipur police...
08:08 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Savar: The death toll in the worst building collapse in the history of Bangladesh on Saturday rose to nearly 400, even as the fugitive owner of the 8-storey structure was arrested dramatically while attempting to flee to India. Sohel Rana was arrested by the country's elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from Benapole, one of the 14 land ports with India, just as he was about to cross into West...
07:54 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Dhaka: Fire broke out on Sunday in a garment factory that collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital, complicating attempts to find any survivors of a disaster that has killed 377 people. Fire service officials said the blaze had been started by sparks from cutting equipment used by rescuers. Police said the owner of the factory, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested on Sunday trying to flee to India, as hopes of finding...
06:56 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Washington: Researchers have developed a new device which helps users track gunfire with their smartphones, popping a map of the neighbourhood on its screen pointing in the direction the shot came from. Computer engineers from Vanderbilt University's Institute of Software Integrated Systems have made such a scenario possible by developing an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. The...
03:58 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Moscow: A fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, including two nurses, emergency officials said. A third nurse managed to save two patients and they were the only three thought to have survived, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Health Ministry. Police said the fire, which broke out at about 2 am local time (7 pm Eastern, 2300 GMT) in the...
08:06 AM, Apr 26, 2013
