At least 100 bodies have been recovered and rescue workers in northern Myanmar are pulling more bodies from the rubble Monday, two days after a massive landslide near a jade mine. Reuters reports while friends and family have identified some of the bodies, stacks of unidentified bodies wrapped in blue tarp remain. Nilar Myint, a […]
The disastrous March 22 landslide that killed 43 people in the rural Washington state community of Oso involved the “remobilization” of a 2006 landslide on the same hillside, a new federally sponsored geological study concludes. The research indicates the landslide, the deadliest in U.S. history, happened in two major stages. The first stage remobilized the 2006 slide, […]
Afghan police fired shots into the air Tuesday to disperse villagers demanding aid at the site of a massive landslide in northeastern Afghanistan.Authorities say no one was injured when several people rushed toward a truck carrying emergency supplies to those affected by last week’s landslide.Hundreds of people in the village of Abi Barik in […]