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Schoolchildren among 20 dead in Jordan flash floods

Rescuers combed the shores of Jordan's Dead Sea early yesterday, searching for survivors, after flash floods killed at least 20 people, most of them children on a school outing.
6 dramatic rescue operations of the world

INFOGRAPHICS: Since 1999, six major and dramatic rescue operations took place around the world. Among the operations, the rescue efforts were the biggest as it was involved with 33 trapped miners and it took 69 days to end it in Copiapo of Chile in 2010.
Unable to find lost boys, Thai police drop survival packages into cave

As a search in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach missing inside a flooded cave entered a sixth day on Friday, police begins dropping survival packages through a shaft drilled in the mountainside not knowing if anyone is there.
Guatemala volcano rescues suspended as death toll hits 109

The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala's Fuego volcano is temporarily suspended on Thursday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to 109, authorities says.
Chennai floods: Race to rescue victims

A massive rescue operation is under way to reach stranded people in the flood-hit southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras).
Over 2,200 migrants rescued off Libya: Italy coastguard

Eight rescue operations picked up more than 2,200 people off the Libyan coast, according to the Italian coastguard from 10 boats in distress in the Mediterranean.
5 killed in Cox’s Bazar landslide

Woman and her 6-year-old daughter killed in Cox's Bazar landslide triggered by rain, 3 more missing as members of Bangladesh Army continue rescue operation.
Buriganga boat capsize death toll reaches 16

Five more bodies are recovered from the Buriganga river, raising the death toll to 16 from the trawler capsize that sank in the river in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj.