Disaster

A total of eight people were killed in the floods that affected the Black Sea province of Artvin on Aug. 24, with one child still remained missing.

Eight people were killed and two went missing due to floods and landslides in Turkey's Black Sea province of Artvin on Aug. 24, the governor has announced.

A migrant injured in an accident on the Tabanovci-Kumanovo railway in Macedonia has died, the Interior Ministry in Skopje has said.

The victim passed away on the way to the emergency medical center in Skopje.

An Indonesian passenger plane that crashed with 54 people on board in Papua province was carrying cash worth around $470,000 for remote villages, a post office spokesman said on Aug. 17 as rescue teams headed to the mountainous site where it went down. 

Six Bulgarian citizens - three men and three women were killed in a heavy road accident after a minibus and a truck collided near Berlin on Friday.

According to local media, the road accident occurred on a dry surface and in good visibility, private NOVA TV reports.

Another four Bulgarians were injured in the accident and have been transported to hospital.

A series of enormous explosions at an industrial area in the Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 44 people and injured more than 500, state media reported on August 13, unleashing a fireball that ripped through the night sky.

A strong explosion rocked the port city of Tianjin in northern China on Wednesday night, shattering windows and sending dust dozens of metres into the air, Xinhua reported.

At least 50 people have been admitted to hospital to be treated for injuries, China's state news agency said.

No fatalities have been reported so far.

Hundreds of people attended ceremonies on Aug. 12 marking the 30th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash that killed 520 people on board, the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in history.

The doomed Boeing 747 had begun the hour-long flight from Japan's capital to Osaka when it crashed into a mountain about 120 kilometers northwest of Tokyo on August 12, 1985.

Two persons died on Monday in a traffic accident on the highway near Pecinci, northwest of Belgrade, while at least eight others were injured.

According to initial information, a van with Croatian license plates and a truck collided.

At least 11 people, including 10 Syrian nationals and one Turkish citizen, have died and 29 others were injured when an overcrowded minibus they were traveling in hit a wall in the northwestern Turkish province of Bal?kesir on Aug. 8. The Syrians were thought to be migrants on their way to an Aegean seaside town where they would begin an illegal voyage to a Greek island.