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At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler are dead and 15 more are missing, after the vessel sank in freezing waters in the Western Pacific Ocean. Yiming Woo reports.
At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler are dead and 15 more are missing, after it sank in freezing waters in the Western Pacific Ocean, officials say.
Ahmedabad, May 19 (EFE/EPA).- At least 22 people have lost their lives after a barge sank off Mumbai, officials said Wednesday, as a powerful cyclone swept through the western coast of India earlier this week.The barge carried 273 people on board when it sank due to the storm formed on the Arabian Sea.An Indian navy spokesperson tweeted that searchers had until Wednesday afternoon recovered 22 bodies and rescued 188 survivors from the sunken barge. (Camera: DIVYAKANT SOLANKI).SHOT LIST: AFTERMATH OF CYCLONE TAUKTAE IN AHMEDABAD, INDIA.
Images from Indonesia show waterlogged homes and overturned cars after torrential rains pounded the Jakarta region, triggering floods and landslides that have killed at least 23. IMAGES
An Indonesian plane with 54 people on board that went missing on Sunday was found to have crashed in a mountainous region in Ok Bape district of Papua province. No survivors have yet been reported.The Trigana airlines plane took off from Jayapura at 2:22 p.m. and was scheduled to land in Oksibil at 3:16 p.m.. The aircraft was carrying five crew and 49 passengers, including five children, an Indonesian government official said to Reuters.