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Apr

2024

Helicopter rescues Taiwan miners, stranded hotel guests confirmed safe

A helicopter plucked to safety six people stranded in a mining area after Taiwan's worst earthquake in 25 years, and rescue workers reached 400 people cut off in a hotel in a mountainous national park by air, and confirmed all were safe. Hundreds of aftershocks struck Taiwan's eastern region, driving scores to seek shelter outdoors, as the death toll from Wednesday's 7.2-magnitude quake rose to 10, with the tally of injured at 1,099, authorities said. A helicopter ferried to safety six miners trapped on a cliff in a dramatic rescue after the quake cut off the roads into Hualien's soaring mountains, in…

Mar

2024

By The African Mirror

Nigerian army rescues 17 students kidnapped in northwest Sokoto

NEWS

NIGERIA'S army has rescued 17 students and a woman who were kidnapped in a dawn raid by armed men two weeks ago in northwest Sokoto state, the state governor said. The attack at Tsangaya school on March 9 came two days after the mass abduction of schoolchildren in Kaduna, also in the north. Those students are still missing. Sokoto Governor Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto said the Tsangaya students were freed on Friday following an operation coordinated by the army and the office of the National Security Adviser. "All the children have been found healthy and are ready to be reunited with their parents," he said…

Jan

2024

By KRISHN KAUSHIK

India Navy rescues bulk carrier crew after Arabian Sea hijack attempt

NEWS

THE Indian Navy rescued the crew of a merchant vessel after its attempted hijack in the Arabian Sea and said it had not found any pirates on board. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the Liberian-flagged MV Lila Norfolk bulk carrier less than a day after it received a report that the vessel had been hijacked about 460 nautical miles off Somalia. About five to six armed people boarded the vessel on Thursday, according to a report received by the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, which said the ship's crew had gathered in the ship's citadel. The navy said all…

Nov

2023

By SAURABH SHARMA

All trapped Indian workers rescued from Himalayan tunnel, say officials

WORLD

INDIAN rescuers pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas, hours after drilling through the debris of rock, concrete and earth to reach them. The evacuation of the men - low-wage workers from some of India's poorest states - began more than six hours after rescuers broke through the debris in the tunnel in Uttarakhand state, which caved in on November 12. They were pulled out on wheeled stretchers through a 90 cm (3 feet) wide steel pipe, with the entire process being completed in about an hour. "Their condition is…

Oct

2023

By The African Mirror

Colombia rescues kidnapped mother of Liverpool soccer player Luis Diaz

WORLD

COLOMBIAN President Gustavo Petro said the mother of Liverpool soccer player Luis Diaz had been rescued after being kidnapped in northern Colombia, but officials were still searching for his missing father. The Colombian attorney general's office earlier said that it assembled a team of investigators to search for the couple in Barrancas, a municipality in Colombia's northern La Guajira province. The National Police confirmed the rescue of Diaz's mother, Cilenis Marulanda, and said she spoke with Director William Rene Salamanca. Premier League club Liverpool signed Colombia winger Diaz in a multi-million dollar deal in January 2022.

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Young girl rescued from rubble in Turkey 178 hours after quake

WORLD

A young girl named Miray was rescued from the rubble of an apartment block in the southern Turkish city of Adiyaman, 178 hours after a devastating earthquake shook the region, a minister and media reports said. Broadcaster CNN Turk said the girl was six years old and that rescuers were also close to reaching her older sister. Turkish Transport Minister Adil Karaismailoglu had earlier said she was four years old. Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oct

2022

By The African Mirror

Rock stars: how a group of scientists in South Africa rescued a rare 500kg chunk of human history

SCIENCE, TECH AND INNOVATION

SCIENTIFIC breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin because of mould growing on a Petri dish left out while he was on holiday. Chinese monks in the 9th century wanted to make a potion for immortality: instead, they discovered gunpowder. Our own remarkable discovery happened on a rugged, remote stretch of coastline east of Still Bay on South Africa’s Cape south coast. It was low tide, and three members of our ichnology team (people who study tracks and traces) were in search of newly exposed Pleistocene vertebrate track sites in aeolianites (cemented dunes). Authors…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

Teenager on sale for R40-million rescued by the police

NEWS

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A South African teenager on sale for R40-million has been rescued by the police from a sex trafficking syndicate that involved members of her own family. The 13 year-old girl’s step mother and grandmother were among trafficking syndicates who were arrested by members of The Hawks, SA’s elite crime busting unit, during a raid on a house in the Vaal. The teenager has been taken to a place of safety and the step mother and grandmother are expected to appear in court today. In addition to the arrests, the police confiscated R30 000 in cash and several…