By Ange Aboa KATIOLA, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Drissa Dembele, a farmer and buyer of raw cashews, surveyed unshelled nuts he had spread out to dry on a tarpaulin in a dusty courtyard, unsure of when he would sell them. Dembele, a 36-year-old father of two, had sold only five bags of nuts since the…
By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India’s deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday. At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the…
(Reuters) – The body of a man that had been missing since the partial collapse of a building in Davenport, Iowa, has been recovered, a city official confirmed on Sunday. The body of Branden Colvin Sr. was found on Saturday and his family has been notified, Sarah Ott, the city’s chief strategy officer, said in…
By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) -Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288…
By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s…
By Jatindra Dash and Abinaya V BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) – At least 288 people have died in India’s worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure. One train in Friday’s…
By Jatindra Dash and Krishn Kaushik BALASORE, India (Reuters) – Ompal Bhatia, a survivor of the three-train crash in India on Friday, had first thought he was dead. When the train he was traveling in went off-track, Bhatia was with three friends on his way to Chennai for work. The 25-year-old had spent most of…
(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Arlene weakened to a tropical depression on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The depression is located about 145 miles (233.35 km) west of the Dry Tortugas, Florida, packing maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (56 km/h). “A turn to the east is expected by tonight, and that…
By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s vast rail network is undergoing a $30 billion transformation with gleaming new trains and modern stations but Friday’s deadly train accident shows more attention should be paid to safety, industry analysts said. At least 261 people were killed in the country’s worst rail accident in over two…
(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Arlene is forecast to weaken on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory late on Friday. Arlene, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico, is forecast to degenerate to a remnant low on Saturday and dissipate by early Sunday, the Miami-based weather forecaster said. (Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama…
