Victims of the Cambodia building collapse on Saturday the 24th were buried alive as they slept. The death toll at the Chinese-owned site rose to 18 with increasingly desperate rescuers picked through the compacted rubble for any further signs of…
Rotorua residents left homeless after steaming, spitting ‘mud volcano’ opens up in the backyard
A New Zealand family has been evacuated from their Whakarewarewa Village home by a creeping pool of bubbling mud. Susan Gedye said she was woken by “a lot of shaking and jolting” at about 2am on Tuesday 24th June. Outside, a…
A volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea has displaced over 13,000 people
Thousands of people have been evacuated last week as the Mt Ulawun volcano erupted (Wednesday the 26th). Troops have been sent to help thousands of people displaced by a volcanic eruption on a remote archipelago in Papua New Guinea, as a…