Cambodia building collapse toll rises
to 29
AFP, Cambodia
The death toll from a building collapse in southern Cambodia rose to 29 on Sunday morning, as a frantic search for the dead and injured entered a third day.
Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers worked through the night using excavators, drills and power saws to clear concrete after an under-construction seven-storey hotel in seaside Kep province crumbled to the ground on Friday. Officials had initially estimated that 30 workers remained trapped under the flattened structure.
Austria’s foreign
ministry says facing
‘serious cyber attack’
AFP, Vienna
Austria’s foreign ministry is facing a “serious cyber attack”, it said late Saturday, warning another country could be responsible.
“Due to the gravity and nature of the attack, it cannot be excluded that it is a targeted attack by a state actor,” it said in a statement with the interior ministry shortly before 11.00 pm (2200 GMT), adding that the attack was ongoing. “In the past, other European countries have been the target of similar attacks,” it continued.
6 killed in wall collapse in India
XINHUA, New Delhi
Six people including a girl were killed and six others injured after an under-construction boundary wall collapsed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said Sunday. The wall collapsed in Laxmanpura village of Jhansi district, about 324 km southwest of Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. “Yesterday a boundary wall of a stone crusher collapsed, following which several people sitting close to it were trapped under its debris,” a police official said.
6 Germans killed in Italy road accident
AFP, Rome
Six Germans were killed and 11 others injured when a speeding car ploughed into them in northern Italy on Sunday, Italian media reported. The accident happened at around 1:15 am (0015 GMT) in the South Tyrol region that borders Austria, the daily Corriere della Sera said.
