Disaster coverage

At least 12 people, including six children, were killed after a loader rickshaw carrying wedding guests plunged into a canal in Pakistan's Kot Addu district in Punjab province late Monday, with three passengers still missing, according to Rescue 1122 officials.

The bodies of 3 Sherpa guides killed in a Broad Peak avalanche returned to Nepal, where hundreds of mourners, relatives, and fellow climbers gathered at Kathmandu airport to receive them. The guides were among 10 climbers killed in the tragedy, which also claimed the life of renowned mountaineer Nirmal 'Nims Dai' Purja, who is expected to be buried in the UK while funeral arrangements continue to be finalized.

At least 15 people were killed and 32 others injured after a pickup truck carrying workers overturned in Egypt's northeastern Ismailia governorate, the Egyptian Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The figures were preliminary and the injured were transferred to a nearby hospital.

A fire broke out at the Komsomolsk oil refinery in Russia's Khabarovsk region on Tuesday after a column depressurised in one of the plant's workshops, regional authorities said. The fire was extinguished with no casualties; 45 firefighters and 13 units of equipment responded.

A fire at one warehouse near Voronezh has been extinguished across 16,000 square meters, while a fire at a second warehouse has been localized across 75,000 square meters, the governor reported.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 jolted Colombia at 1234 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 93.7 km, was initially determined to be at 4.86 degrees north latitude and 76.19 degrees west longitude.

At least 16 Bangladeshi nationals were killed in a sofa factory fire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, according to a notification from Bangladesh's Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry.

Eight people were killed and nine others injured after a drag racing car lost control and crashed into spectators during the Tidar Drag Race Championship 2026 in Kotamobagu city, North Sulawesi province, on Sunday. Local police said the crash occurred on a public road without barriers or safety fencing separating the track from spectators, and authorities are investigating.

Greek firefighters are battling a forest fire 30 km from Athens, according to ERT-news. Residents of the village of Agios Stilianos and its surroundings have been issued an emergency evacuation order.

At least 12 people were killed after tropical cyclones Luis and Maymay and the enhanced southwest monsoon hit the northern Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense said on Monday. Nearly 384,520 families, or about 1.31 million individuals, have been affected across 10 regions, with reports of 11 injured and eight missing being verified.

A landslide in Baguio City, northern Philippines killed four people and left six missing on Sunday evening, burying three houses and 13 people, according to local media reports on Monday.

Five people, including a 12-year-old, died in a traffic accident on the Yalta-Kremnevka road in the DPR, according to the Russian Interior Ministry's DPR branch. Preliminary reports say the Audi driver crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a Ford.