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Survivor found in Bangladesh building collapse rubble
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Urals ghost plane: Wreckage found year after crash, 11 dead bodies
Aleksandr Scryabin and Sergey Kuznetsov came across the aircraft’s debris 8km from the town of Serov in the Sverdlovsk Region late on Saturday, May 4. According to Scryabin, the tail was distinguishable in the wreckage of the plane, the double wings, the flashing lights – blue and red, and a pile of human remains – skulls and bones. ”At first, they took the strange structure in the swamp for the collapsed power line pylon and set up a camp nearby, but when they approached it they understood that it was, in fact, the missing plane,” the statement by the regional Interior Ministry said. The representatives of the Emergencies Ministry, the police and the investigative committee are currently working on the scene of the accident. Despite the crash site being relatively close to Serov, it’s situated in a hard-to-reach area, which is accessible only by caterpillar vehicle. The officials have confirmed that the model of the crashed aircraft is An-2, reporting at least 11 skeletonized bodies found in the wreckage. The rescuers say the helicopter will most likely be needed to remove the debris of the plane from the swamp. There were at least 12 people on board the plane when it fell into the swamp. According to the police, the relatives of the deceased have begun to arrive at the crash site in the woods. The An-2 plane went missing on June 11, 2012 soon after lift off from the airfield in Serov. The aircraft was used for fire-prevention monitoring of the taiga (boreal forest), but it was on an unsanctioned flight when the tragedy occurred. Reports in the media claimed the pilot was organizing aerial excursions for civilians in order to earn some extra cash. The search for the plane went on for nearly six months by air and on foot and was aborted only in the middle of November. The operation expanded outside the Sverdlovsk Region as the rescuers had explored nearly 1 million sq km of the forest in the neighboring Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen Regions and Khanty-Mansi autonomous district, but their efforts were fruitless.”Any reproaches towards the search party that they weren’t checking the woods thoroughly enough are groundless. The plane crashed into a swamp and it was hard to find it even for the hunters, who know the taiga very well,” the statement by the Sverdlovsk Interior Ministry’s department added. The An-2, which is also known by the nickname ‘Kukuruznik’ (maize farmworker) in Russia, is a single-engine biplane designed in the USSR in 1946 to be used as a utility or agricultural aircraft. The plane, which can carry two crew members and 12 passengers, was produced until 2002. Four hundred and eleven hull-loss accidents involving An-2s have been registered so far, with 391 human lives lost in them. … Read More
Urals ghost plane: Wreckage found year after crash, 11 dead bodies (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
Aleksandr Scryabin and Sergey Kuznetsov came across the aircraft’s debris 8km from the town of Serov in the Sverdlovsk Region late on Saturday, May 4. According to Scryabin, the tail was distinguishable in the wreckage of the plane, the double wings, the flashing lights – blue and red, and a pile of human remains – skulls and bones. ”At first, they took the strange structure in the swamp for the collapsed power line pylon and set up a camp nearby, but when they approached it they understood that it was, in fact, the missing plane,” the statement by the regional Interior Ministry said. The representatives of the Emergencies Ministry, the police and the investigative committee are currently working on the scene of the accident. Despite the crash site being relatively close to Serov, it’s situated in a hard-to-reach area, which is accessible only by caterpillar vehicle. The officials have confirmed that the model of the crashed aircraft is An-2, reporting at least 11 skeletonized bodies found in the wreckage. The rescuers say the helicopter will most likely be needed to remove the debris of the plane from the swamp. There were at least 12 people on board the plane when it fell into the swamp. According to the police, the relatives of the deceased have begun to arrive at the crash site in the woods. The An-2 plane went missing on June 11, 2012 soon after lift off from the airfield in Serov. The aircraft was used for fire-prevention monitoring of the taiga (boreal forest), but it was on an unsanctioned flight when the tragedy occurred. Reports in the media claimed the pilot was organizing aerial excursions for civilians in order to earn some extra cash. The search for the plane went on for nearly six months by air and on foot and was aborted only in the middle of November. The operation expanded outside the Sverdlovsk Region as the rescuers had explored nearly 1 million sq km of the forest in the neighboring Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Tyumen Regions and Khanty-Mansi autonomous district, but their efforts were fruitless.”Any reproaches towards the search party that they weren’t checking the woods thoroughly enough are groundless. The plane crashed into a swamp and it was hard to find it even for the hunters, who know the taiga very well,” the statement by the Sverdlovsk Interior Ministry’s department added. The An-2, which is also known by the nickname ‘Kukuruznik’ (maize farmworker) in Russia, is a single-engine biplane designed in the USSR in 1946 to be used as a utility or agricultural aircraft. The plane, which can carry two crew members and 12 passengers, was produced until 2002. Four hundred and eleven hull-loss accidents involving An-2s have been registered so far, with 391 human lives lost in them. … Read More
100 dead and rescuers trapped in Darfur gold mine disaster
Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday. “Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them yesterday (Thursday),” said…
At least 15 trapped as India hospital roof collapses
Up to 15 people, mostly patients, were feared trapped after part of a hospital roof caved in on Friday in the central Indian city of Bhopal, officials and eyewitnesses said. Rescuers moved in heavy machinery to cut through the crashed roof of the female surgical ward of Kasturba Hospital, hospital…
Police fire tear gas at Bangladeshis protesting building collapse
The demonstrators – some armed with bamboo sticks – blockaded roads, smashed vehicles, burned tires and attacked factories at Gazipur, just outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.”The situation is very volatile. Hundreds of thousands of workers have joined the protests. We fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them,” M. Asaduzzaman, an officer in the police control room, told AFP.The rioting also spread to several districts in the capital, local media reported. The protesters have demanded the arrest and execution of those responsible for the disaster, and blamed the building’s owners for the deaths.The collapsed eight-story building at Savar, a town on the outskirts of Dhaka, housed five factories. Rescuers have recovered nearly 300 bodies form the rubble, and the death toll may rise further.The building reportedly developed cracks on Tuesday evening, but the owners ordered fleeing workers to return to their production lines, survivors said.The incident was the worst to befall Bangladesh since a fire in November 2012 that killed over 100 workers. … Read More
