At least four people have been injured in fire that broke out on Saturday in a high-rise that until recently had been a Trump-branded property in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Footage on social media showed flames shooting out of the windows and smoke billowing from the 33-floor building, which is still under construction. The […]
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Fire has gutted the headquarters of Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) located along Sokoto Road in the state capital. Eyewitnesses told Channels Television that the fire, which gutted a part of the two-storey building, started around 10:30am on Saturday. Although officials of the Federal Fire Service have put out the fire, the management of […]
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At least 14 people sustained burns in a fresh outbreak of fires at a camp housing tens of thousands of people displaced by Boko Haram jihadists in northeast Nigeria, according to an aid agency. The outbreak comes just two weeks after a blaze at the camp, located at Rann, about 175 kilometres (108 miles) east […]
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A fire broke out at Trump Tower on Saturday, leaving one man dead and six firefighters injured, the New York City Fire Department said. Police identified the man killed as Todd Brassner, 67, a resident of the building’s 50th floor. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition but later died, said spokeswoman Angelica […]
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About eleven people were on Monday confirmed dead following a fire outbreak at an Internally Displaces Peoples camp in Rann, Borno state. Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and health workers said the fire incident started at 10.27 am and lasted to about 3pm at the displaced persons camp in Rann, the headquarters […]
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Sixty-four people, many of them children, perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia, officials said Monday as rescuers searched through piles of charred rubble to recover bodies. Russian television showed images of thick black smoke pouring out of the roof of the Winter Cherry shopping centre […]
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Fire has razed a section of Binukonu Ultra Modern Market, Ojota in Lagos during the early hours of Friday, destroying goods and property worth millions of Naira. According to NAN, the fire, which was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault, started at 1.30am and razed over fifty stalls in the market. At […]
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At least 40 people were killed and 23 injured when a Bangladeshi passenger plane crashed near Kathmandu airport Monday, an official said. “Thirty-one people died at the spot and nine died at two hospitals in Kathmandu,” police spokesman Manoj Neupane told AFP, adding another 23 were injured. There were 67 passengers and four crew on […]
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More than 600 shops at the old market in Bida in Niger state have been destroyed by fire on Thursday night. NAN reports that the fire, which started at about 8.30 p.m. destroyed goods and other property in the old market. Witnesses said firemen from the Bida Fire Service and Federal Polytechnic Fire Service could […]
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A pipeline explosion was earlier reported at Iyana–Odo axis of Lasu- Isheri expressway. Sketchy reports suggest that the incident occurred some minutes after 9am on Thursday morning. As at time of this report, cause of the explosion was not determined. The exploded pipeline connects Ayobo community in the Ipaja end of Lagos Mainland. “@1035fmradio1: #BREAKING: […]
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