The Asia Telegraph » Accident http://www.asiatelegraph.net News, Stories and Links about Asia Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:49:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Death toll rises to 7 in E China subway tunnel collapse http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-rises-to-7-in-e-china-subway-tunnel-collapse/ http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-rises-to-7-in-e-china-subway-tunnel-collapse/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:41 +0000 Martin Gerke http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-rises-to-7-in-e-china-subway-tunnel-collapse/ Two more bodies of missing workers were found on Monday afternoon, bringing the death toll in Saturday’s collapse at a subway construction site in east China’s Zhejiang Province to seven.

Rescuers extricated another body earlier in the day, and the death toll was expected to rise as the search for 14 other missing workers continues.

The incident [...]]]> http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-rises-to-7-in-e-china-subway-tunnel-collapse/feed/ 0 Death toll from Tibet bus accident rises to 18 http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-from-tibet-bus-accident-rises-to-18/ http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-from-tibet-bus-accident-rises-to-18/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:41 +0000 Martin Gerke http://www.asiatelegraph.net/death-toll-from-tibet-bus-accident-rises-to-18/ The death toll from Friday’s bus accident in Tibet has risen to 18, according to local government.

Four injured passengers died while being transferred from the Nagqu Prefecture, where the accident happened, to the regional capital Lhasa, said Huang Kangyu, Party chief of Tibet regional traffic and transportation administration.

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