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China: Massive Landslide Buries G215 Highway in Yunnan, Leaving Road Impassable

On September 2, 2025, in Yunnan, China, a large section of the G215 National Highway between Shangri-La and Daocheng Yading collapsed. The landslide with the large amount of soil and rocks, which created massive clouds of dust, has left vehicles stranded and the road completely impassable, burying the highway in seconds.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Batters Kagoshima, Triggering Floods and Landslides 5

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture and neighboring Miyazaki. In Kirishima City’s Mizobe district, a record-breaking hourly rainfall of 107.5 millimeters was observed. In Aira City, a mudslide struck a house, burying two people, who were rescued alive and taken to hospital.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Batters Kagoshima, Triggering Floods and Landslides 4

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture and neighboring Miyazaki. In Kirishima City’s Mizobe district, a record-breaking hourly rainfall of 107.5 millimeters was observed. In Aira City, a mudslide struck a house, burying two people, who were rescued alive and taken to hospital.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Batters Kagoshima, Triggering Floods and Landslides

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture and neighboring Miyazaki. In Kirishima City’s Mizobe district, a record-breaking hourly rainfall of 107.5 millimeters was observed. In Aira City, a mudslide struck a house, burying two people, who were rescued alive and taken to hospital.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Batters Kagoshima, Triggering Floods and Landslides 2

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture and neighboring Miyazaki. In Kirishima City’s Mizobe district, a record-breaking hourly rainfall of 107.5 millimeters was observed. In Aira City, a mudslide struck a house, burying two people, who were rescued alive and taken to hospital.

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Japan: Record Rainfall Batters Kagoshima, Triggering Floods and Landslides 3

Record rainfall battered Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, on Friday, August 8, triggering floods and landslides. Evacuation advisories were issued for more than 360,000 people in the prefecture and neighboring Miyazaki. In Kirishima City’s Mizobe district, a record-breaking hourly rainfall of 107.5 millimeters was observed. In Aira City, a mudslide struck a house, burying two people, who were rescued alive and taken to hospital.

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Files - Burying Palestinian Bodies In Rafah

The bodies of Palestinians killed during the war are buried in a mass grave on January 30, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. The health ministry in Gaza said 80 bodies and 20 remains of bodies heavily decomposed confiscated by Israeli forces were handed over through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing and were buried in mass graves in the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Photo by Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese-developed robot completes first burying of seabed cable

STORY: Chinese-developed robot completes first burying of seabed cable SHOOTING TIME: May 2024 DATELINE: June 13, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: ZHANJIANG, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the robot STORYLINE: A Chinese-developed robot has completed its first burying of a seabed cable as part of an offshore wind energy project, representing another breakthrough in the country's drive to boost the development of deep-sea robots and wind power facilities. The seabed cable and pipeline burying tractor, named Taurus, laid cables off the coast of the city of Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province, in late May this year, according to its developer Sealien (Guangzhou) Technology. Such remote-controlled tractors are expected to facilitate the construction of offshore wind farms by exempting human workers from having to operate in the complicated deep-sea environment. These robots move by way of caterpillar tracks and are designed to operate at a maximum depth of 500 meters, sai

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - People attend the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen attends the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen attends the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen attends the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen attends the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen (L) attends the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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Hansen Village in Kyiv Region

TARASIVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 15, 2024 - Kyiv Regional Military Administration head Ruslan Kravchenko and American philanthropist Dell Loy Hansen (L to R) are pictured during the burying of the time capsule of the future school held as part of the inauguration of the third phase of construction of Hansen Village for internally displaced persons, Tarasivka, Kyiv region, northern Ukraine.

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China: Man Digs Through Mounds Of Snow Inside House After Snowstorm In Hunan

A winter storm sent heavy snow through a house in Hunan on February 4, burying rooms in deep snow. In this video, mounds of snow can be seen inside rooms in the house and a man shoveling snow in the bathroom. All the building occupants resides on the second floor of the house and everyone seemed to forgot to close the windows overnight during the snowstorm. Everyone finds an indoor winter wonderland on the first floor the next morning.

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240123) -- BEIJING, Jan. 23, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 22, 2024 shows the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province. China's Ministry of Emergency Management has upgraded the emergency response level to the second-highest level for the landslide that struck southwestern Yunnan Province early Monday. The ministry has dispatched work teams to the disaster-hit area to guide the rescue and relief work. The landslide hit Liangshui Village in the city of Zhaotong in Yunnan Province at around 6 a.m. on Monday, burying 47 people, according to local headquarters for the disaster relief. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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(SPOT NEWS)CHINA-YUNNAN-ZHAOTONG-LANDSLIDE-RESCUE (CN)

(240122) -- KUNMING, Jan. 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 22, 2024 shows the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province. China's Ministry of Emergency Management has upgraded the emergency response level to the second-highest level for the landslide that struck southwestern Yunnan Province early Monday. The ministry has dispatched work teams to the disaster-hit area to guide the rescue and relief work. The landslide hit Liangshui Village in the city of Zhaotong in Yunnan Province at around 6 a.m. on Monday, burying 47 people, according to local headquarters for the disaster relief. Seven people have been confirmed dead as of 6:30 p.m. Monday, local authorities said. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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(SPOT NEWS)CHINA-YUNNAN-ZHAOTONG-LANDSLIDE-RESCUE (CN)

(240122) -- KUNMING, Jan. 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers work at the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 22, 2024. China's Ministry of Emergency Management has upgraded the emergency response level to the second-highest level for the landslide that struck southwestern Yunnan Province early Monday. The ministry has dispatched work teams to the disaster-hit area to guide the rescue and relief work. The landslide hit Liangshui Village in the city of Zhaotong in Yunnan Province at around 6 a.m. on Monday, burying 47 people, according to local headquarters for the disaster relief. Seven people have been confirmed dead as of 6:30 p.m. Monday, local authorities said. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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(SPOT NEWS)CHINA-YUNNAN-ZHAOTONG-LANDSLIDE-RESCUE (CN)

(240122) -- KUNMING, Jan. 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Jan. 22, 2024 shows rescuers working at the site of a landslide in Liangshui Village, Tangfang Town in the city of Zhaotong, southwest China's Yunnan Province. China's Ministry of Emergency Management has upgraded the emergency response level to the second-highest level for the landslide that struck southwestern Yunnan Province early Monday. The ministry has dispatched work teams to the disaster-hit area to guide the rescue and relief work. The landslide hit Liangshui Village in the city of Zhaotong in Yunnan Province at around 6 a.m. on Monday, burying 47 people, according to local headquarters for the disaster relief. Seven people have been confirmed dead as of 6:30 p.m. Monday, local authorities said. (Xinhua/Hu Chao)

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9 killed in housefire in NW Pakistan

STORY: 9 killed in housefire in NW Pakistan SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 24, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 25, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of housefire 2. various of the rescue efforts STORYLINE: At least nine people were killed in a housefire in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said. The incident happened in Abbottabad district, where the house caved in, following the fire, burying all nine family members under the rubbles, the police told media, adding that nine bodies have been retrieved from the debris. The fire erupted due to a short circuit, swiftly engulfing the whole house before the residents could manage to contain it, the police said. The bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for the identification process, the police added. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Islamabad. (XHTV)

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Sandstorm Hits Herat - Afghanistan

People are commuting along a road during a sandstorm in Herat, Afghanistan on October 17, 2023. The western province of Herat in Afghanistan has been hit with a magnitude 6.3 earthquake, its third since powerful quakes on October 7 killed more than 2,000 people. The series of quakes has levelled whole villages, burying families and leaving thousands homeless as winter approaches. Photo by Esmatullah Habibian/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDONESIA-BALI-STRANDED SPERM WHALE

(230406) -- BALI, April 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo shows excavators burying a stranded sperm whale at Yeh Malet Beach in Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia, April 6, 2023. (Photo by Dicky Bisinglasi/Xinhua)

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Bird flu virus detected in Miyazaki, 4,000 chickens culled

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Local officials of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki put culled chickens into bags at a farm where three chickens have tested positive for a highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza. The prefectural government said it plans to complete necessary procedures, including burying roughly 4,000 culled chickens at the farm.

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Bird flu virus detected in Miyazaki, 4,000 chickens culled

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Shunji Kono (2nd from R) attends a task force meeting on Dec. 16, 2014, at the prefectural government offices after three chickens tested positive for a highly pathogenic H5 strain of avian influenza at a farm in the southwestern Japan prefecture. The prefectural government said it plans to complete necessary procedures, including burying roughly 4,000 culled chickens at the farm.

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Hundreds of thousands feared dead in Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians walk by collapsed buildings on Jan. 14, 2010. More than 100,000 may have been killed by a powerful earthquake that hit the Caribbean state on Jan. 12, as major buildings, schools, hospitals and houses collapsed in the capital, burying many people under rubble.

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Hundreds of thousands feared dead in Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians left homeless rest at a park in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Jan. 14, 2010. More than 100,000 may have been killed by a powerful earthquake that hit the Caribbean state on Jan. 12, as major buildings, schools, hospitals and houses collapsed in the capital, burying many people under rubble.

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Explosion occurs at restaurant in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People clear debris at the entrance of a Uyghur restaurant located in a two-story building in the Xinjiekou area of downtown Beijing on Sept. 25, 2009. China's official Xinhua News Agency quoted a local resident as saying the restaurant collapsed after an explosion, burying some people.

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Rescue workers search for people missing in fatal mudslide

HOFU, Japan - Rescue workers from the local police search for four people still missing inside a nursing home for the elderly in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in western Japan on July 22, after a mudslide triggered by torrential rain hit the facility a day before, burying the first floor under mud. Three people died in the disaster.

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Police search for two missing men at Okayama industrial site

OKAYAMA, Japan - Police searching for two missing 21-year-old men found two bodies at an industrial site (in photo) in the city of Okayama on June 27 after a man arrested for assault confessed to burying them alive there. The two have been missing since last week after being abducted and assaulted by a group of nine people.