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Yellowstone flooding forces 10,000 to leave national park | National News

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST – Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation’s oldest national park, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream, officials said Tuesday. Remarkably, no one was reported injured or killed. The…

One person has been confirmed dead while eight others were rescued following the collapse of a three-storey building with a penthouse at 28 Baale Alayabiagba Street, Ajegunle, Apapa, Lagos. The building, which was reportedly undergoing manual demolition, caved in at about 11:09 a.m. on Thursday, trapping workers under the rubble. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the…

At least 15 persons have been rescued after a two-storey building collapsed in the early hours of Monday at No. 54 Cole Street, Cemetery Bus Stop, Oyingbo, Lagos. Emergency responders, including officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), and police, were at the scene conducting search and rescue operations to free others still trapped…

An under construction building collapsed in Jaipur’s Jawahar Nagar area on Thursday night.

Following the incident, police teams along with civil defence officials rushed to the site to remove the debris. Teams from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are also present on the spot.

NEW YORK — A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, killing one worker, injuring five and crushing cars as concrete floors fell on top of each other like a stack of pancakes, officials said. Vehicles tumbled into what looked like a frozen stream of sedans and SUVs. People nearby described a fearsome rumbling, followed by screams. Ahmed Scott arrived to collect…