A huge fire broke out at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on Monday, injuring at least 38 people before it was put out, according to the health ministry. No fatalities were immediately reported but the building was…
At least 63 people, including a toddler, have died in a fire in a multi-storey building in Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services have said. Emergency Management Services said a further 43 people were injured in the blaze, which…
At least 31 people are dead and seven injured in the Chinese city of Yinchuan, in northwest Ningxia region, after a gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant Wednesday night, according to state media. The explosion was caused by a leak…
A massive gas explosion caused buildings to burst into flames in France’s capital on Wednesday leaving 24 people injured, four of them critically. Flames leapt 100ft high in central Paris’ 5th arrondissement, close to the historic Pantheon monument and the Latin Quarter.…
Four people have died after lithium batteries for e-bikes sparked a fire in a New York building, officials said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the skyrocketing number of such incidents. The fire broke out overnight in a maintenance shop for…
Two additional bodies have been found by search and rescue teams working to locate missing individuals after the explosion of an eastern Pennsylvania candy factory last week, raising the incident’s death toll to seven people, officials said Sunday. “We do believe them…
More than 70 firefighters responded to a massive fire at a nursery in Kissimmee, Florida, on Thursday morning where nearly five acres of plastic planters caught fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air. According to Osceola County Fire Rescue,…
Streets in Edinburgh city centre remain sealed off as emergency crews deal with a fire in the Jenners building. Fire crews, police and ambulance staff were dispatched to the empty department store on Rose Street at about 11:30. No casualties…
A murder investigation has been launched after eight bodies were found in a burning house in Oklahoma. The fire in the city of Broken Arrow, 13 miles south east of Tulsa, was reported at roughly 4pm on Thursday. Broken Arrow police said the deaths were being…
At least 26 people died and dozens of others were injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria on Wednesday, the country's interior minister said. Kamel Beldjoud told state television that 24 people lost their lives in fires in…