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Officials: 10 Workers Die in Russia Building Fire

A fire ripped through a new Moscow building’s underground parking lot on Saturday, killing 10 migrant workers and injuring 13 others who had been working and living there, city police said. All those who died were citizens of Tajikistan, Moscow …

Collapse at Shanghai Construction Site Kills 5

Chinese authorities say five workers were killed and 18 injured in Shanghai at a construction site for a parking lot being built to support a new metro line. Shanghai’s Work Safety Administration said on its microblog that a concrete structure …

Workers Injured, Patient Dead in North Carolina Hospital Fire

A state official says preliminary information indicates a spark and fire at a North Carolina hospital that killed a patient and injured three workers occurred during a defibrillation, a procedure typically used to deliver an electric shock to the heart. …

Pipeline Fire in Southeast Nigeria Kills 20

A government spokesman says 20 people in southeast Nigeria died when a broken gasoline pipeline caught fire, burning alive those gathering the fuel. The fire happened in a remote village in Abia state, near Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta. Abia state …