Cable Car Accident in Antalya, Turkey, Drops Passengers Onto Mountain
Scores of people were stranded, some for as long as 19 hours, after an accident on a rocky hillside above the city of Antalya.
Scores of people were stranded, some for as long as 19 hours, after an accident on a rocky hillside above the city of Antalya.
American rescuers found the lost sailors on a tiny uninhabited island in Micronesia with a damaged boat and the word spelled out on the beach.
Decades of learning from disasters, tightening building codes and increasing public awareness may have helped its people better weather strong quakes.
Rescue efforts were centered on two buildings in the city, one of which appeared near collapse. Some roads to the region were cut off.
Survivors, who departed from Libya, said they had been adrift for four days when they were found.
The police said weather conditions had deteriorated after the group set out from the town of Zermatt over the weekend. The search continued for a sixth person.
The Palestine Red Crescent said the girl, named Hind, was in a car in northern Gaza with six of her relatives who were all killed by Israeli fire. She was…